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For me, for this snippet, the main element that needs fixing is the camera movement. It feels like an old game cinematic. It stopped too suddenly in the first scene and the second was too static. Possible solutions for the first scene: Use ease-out/deceleration movement. You can cut before the camera comes to a complete halt. But it should be on the move too slowly to to so. Possible solutions for the second scene: Use slow-zooming movement towards the object. Use targeting to keep the object on the center of the view. Use both of the above. So the main problem (as I see it) is cinematographic/directorial I suggest you study all of the videos in this amazing channel but start from this video about camera movement and this video about camera angle and built your knowledge from there. The second problem is compositional. The floating particles and cross are all in front of the sword shuttering any perspective or depth of the sword in the center of the scene.

I was very surprised I haven't come across this before, but now you mention it happens when using a spherical camera that indeed explains it - I have never had need to make use of that. I'm sure Maxon will be very grateful for the information though, so thanks for posting it. CBR

Thank you so much you both! I think it is finally working. I do still need to make it work with the vertex map but the fields are finally working. Looks like the issue was the alembic format I exported in the first place. It was not merged and I had two objects, parent/child and both have in the object settings the use of animation option. digging about it I found a trick using a connect object on the original flower to export it as alembic and finally getting a single object. After this I was able to keyframe the sequence keeping the the clone Animation mode in play (which is different from all the tutorial I have found) and it worked. Thank you very much you two for your help! and I wish you a happy new year.