• Adobe After Effects

  A Time Displacement Problem

  Posted by Gal Muggia on July 30, 2009 at 9:10 am

  Hi,

  I have a common time displacement problem in After Effects.
  I’m trying to achive a smooth Slit-Scan effect on 720p HD material.
  Since the “Time Resolution” value is limited to “127.0” I recive thick lines instead of smooth motion. Entering a value larger than “127” dose’nt change the result.

  Is there a plugin that can work with HD material?

  If not, What should I do? Is there another program I should use?

  Thanks,

  G Muggia

  Gal Muggia replied 16 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Bogie

  July 30, 2009 at 4:31 pm

  Displacement and compound effects rely on the quality of the offset map which is a grayscale image or it’s take from the luma value of one channel of a map layer. what does your map layer look like?

  127 is half of 255, the number of shades of gray AE can use in compound effects.

  bogiesan
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  Gal Muggia

  July 31, 2009 at 2:33 pm

  First of all, thanks!

  I’m using a grayscale gradient i created in photoshop with the gradiant tool.

  Should I use a different type of displacement map?
  Is AFX the right program for me?

  Thanks

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