NTSC and PAL broadcasters are all broadcasting HD, and interlacing is not part of that equation for almost all programs. I would suggest you contact the channel to see if it is required. Interlacing was required for color Standard Definition broadcasts to save bandwidth. With the introduction of HD and digital transmission, it is no longer required and seldom used.   If you must interlace your output, make sure you view it at 100% scale, and don't be surprised if you get missing scan lines when you pause. The only way to accurately watch and judge an interlaced signal is on a CRT monitor if you can still find one. Your computer does not interlace. ... View more

Your CC Particle World layer (Dark Grey Solid 1) needs to be a 2D layer. That is what is throwing off the camera view. ... View more

No such tool exists. The closest thing you have to that is the option to group shapes. Just move all of the paths into a single group (Shape 1 path moved to the Shape 2 group, then select the paths, right-click, and Group the paths. ... View more

Content Aware Fill requires a moving camera or subject. A mask includes more area than you want replaced by about 10-20%, and some clean content in the frames before or after the masked subject. It is not fully AI-enhanced yet, so it cannot reliably replace a static object with a generated background.   Trying to use Rotobrush is just complicating the procedure. I have never reliably used Rotobrush and Content-Aware Fill together because the resulting matte is too close to the subject, and the system's resources are easily taxed. That could be the cause of your crashes. You might want to try just animating a loose mask around the person in the shot.   What is going on in the shot? If the person is standing there or appears in only a couple of frames, you might be better off exporting a frame as a Photoshop file, using the tools in PS to remove the person, then exporting and tracking the replacement layer.  ... View more

I don't have time to go through a thorough explanation right now, but the solution is to set your text layer as an emitter, then pre-compose the comp and use Time Remapping to reverse the particles' motion so they build the shape.  I do not know of any particle system that will assemble a shape from random particles; they only emit from a shape.    ... View more

After Effects lacks the audio tools you need to clean up anything beyond a very basic audio mix. It is an effects and animation tool.   If you cannot record a simple background noise clip, lay it over both tracks and do a little simple mixing, try using the more advanced audio tools in Premiere Pro or Adobe Audition.   Premiere Pro and Audition contain many powerful tools for equalizing, removing background noise, and cleaning up audio tracks. The latest versions also have some good AI-supported tools to speed up the process and level out the recording. If that is not enough to fix your audio problems, you will have to add more tracks.   When I am filming actors or even shooting interviews, I will often record several seconds of Room Tone, Wild Sound, Ambient Noise, or Buzz Tracks that can be looped and added to the final mix to level out the audio. I have also collected a fairly large library of Wild Sound and different room tones (the sound in a room or hall when no one is talking), which I can add to an edit to help balance out the recording. Those sound effects are as important as the music in any feature film, documentary, or other film or audio recording to raise the production value to match what your brain does when you are talking and listening to the world around you.    I hope this helps.     ... View more

When you add a Puppet Pin to a layer, a mesh is applied to all the layer's pixels. The mesh ignores transparency. Effects are applied before the transform properties of Position, Scale, Rotation, and Opacity.    If you want to move the whole mesh, you have two options. The first is to add the Transform effect after Puppet Pin. The second is to pre-compose, ensuring that you move all attributes to the new composition, then animate the pre-comp's transform property.   ... View more

Time Remapping is applied to the whole clip. It ignores the in and out points.    If you have trimmed a clip, before applying Time Remappint, pre-compose, move all attributes and trim the pre-comp to the length of the layer.    ... View more