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Ian, you want to use what’s called a track matte. Here’s the documentation and some quick examples:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/track-mattes-and-traveling-mattes.html
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Are you rendering directly to ProRes 4444 from Ae’s render queue?
I tried quickly recreating this, and my ProRes 4444 and ProRes 422 renders were clean:
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Are you using any footage elements in your comp? If yes, what codec are they? It may help to translate H.264 footage to ProRes first.
Do you have multi-frame rendering enabled? If yes, are all your third-party plugins up-to-date to support MFR? It may help to update plug-ins or disable MFR.
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As Ryan mentions, if you want the elements to rotate together about one common anchor point (like a precomp), you can parent them to a null and animate the null like Ryan suggests. This is fast and easy!
If you want the elements to rotate independently about their own anchor points, you can use expressions.
Directly linking the properties won’t help you, because you don’t want everything to have the same exact values; it looks like you want to be able to offset them some (so the ellipse and the rectangle have different position values).
You can do this with expressions by having the expression reference the property’s underlying value, and adding it to the animated value from another property. I’ve mocked up a quick project to illustrate this — please feel free to ask questions!
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Dylan, can you post an AEP project file so we can see what you’re doing and where you’re stuck?
We don’t need footage, and we don’t even necessarily need the entire project. First, do a SAVE AS so you don’t overwrite your original project. (And you should ALWAYS back up your project files, just in case!)
Then, select the comp with your text setup in the project panel, then use File > Dependencies > Reduce Project. This will eliminate everything except the comp(s) you selected, and any assets/precomps it requires. Save a copy of this reduced AEP and post it here.
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If you want to set the values in only one place (either with keyframes or an expression), and have them referenced in many other places, property linking (done via the Edit menu or the pickwhip or expressions) is the way.
This doesn’t actually copy the keyframes to the follower properties, if that’s what you’re expecting, but it does make sure the values are always linked.
Here’s a short tutorial from Adobe:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/how-to/link-properties.htmlIf that’s not addressing your question, maybe a couple of screen shots will help us understand what you’re trying to accomplish?
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What codec are you using when you render? You may need to use a lossless codec to avoid compression and chroma sub-sampling. What specifically you should use depends on the playback system.
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Sorry, it’s not really clear to me what we’re looking at in the image you’ve posted.
I do expect you’d see some perspective effect from the camera out in the corners of the image. Was the track solid? Is the orientation of the null you’re attaching to maybe off from what you expect?
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I can lay out the broad strokes here so you know what to look for. After you’ve done some work, if you get stuck, come back with a specific question. It’s so much easier to discuss focused questions and work-in-progress on a forum.
The stones look like AI-generated images. If you want to make them from scratch, that’s a job for a full 3D package like C4D or Houdini or Blender, not Ae. You can make a 2D image feel like a 3D space by setting up what’s called a “camera projection,” and then animating a new camera through the scene. Some of the waves look like distortion effects (start with Turbulent Displacement); others look more like real footage that’s been composited in. The dolphin-shaped clouds can be generated by Ae, painted by hand in Photoshop and brought into Ae with layers to animate, or generated by particle systems like Trapcode Form using custom layer maps.
If there’s a lot of this on TikTok, it’s possible there’s a specific tool that makes the work easier than doing all the compositing in Ae. Look up “cinemagraph” software if you’re looking for an easy button.
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My best advice for new After Effects users is to learn to walk before you try to run.
Ae offers an enormous set of tools, and it gets complex fast. Jumping into intermediate or advanced outcome-oriented tutorials is a very hard way to learn, because you will miss the important fundamental concepts and techniques that underpin good Ae work.
Start small, build your skills incrementally, and you’ll be able to make amazing images before you know it.
There are plenty of resources that can get you started on your journey. Here are a couple good places to start:
https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/tutorials.html
https://creativecow.net/category/tutorials/
