did you just rotate a layer that had the fibre filter put on it?

it doesn't really look like rain
too many white-ish streaks (which i assume to be the rain) and they merge together like a giant...

crop tool, hit 'c' and away you go

or you could use the marquee tool, hit 'm' and click and drag away

although the crop tool is less effort to use

also, make sure the snapping is off...
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i'd say go with 1 or 4

2 too looks too empty, being a small portion of your city it also looks like it should have more of what you have

3 looks ok but i don't like the angle... it looks too...

hasn't mike given you an extra week to procrastinate? :p

are you trying to find a good angle for the final still?
one of the angles near the middle of the clip, i think looks quite good

there's a giant white building on the right, and when that gets...

oh wait, i got my advice around the wrong way.

blackhole shaders are for when you want to render things that appear behind other things...

i meant to say, you could add everything to a render...

you can add all the objects you want to the render layer
then you can assign black hole shaders to the objects you don't want to show in the render but still cast shadows or occlude other objects
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i wish i was snowed in with nothing to do as well

looks mighty!

nice lamps
is the walkway all seperate blocks?