• Adobe After Effects

  OPEN GL Transparancy Issues

  Posted by Haik Katsikian on August 28, 2010 at 6:31 pm

  Hello,

  I’ve been working on different projects in AE CS4 and I love the speed of the Oen GL renderer. However, it doesn’t seem to process certain transparency modes or layer styles, like screen and drop shadows.

  Under preferences in AE previews>openGL all of the all are enabled and i have 1024MB on the texture mapping.

  I’m currently using a MAC

  Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
  Processor Speed: 3 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 2
  Total Number Of Cores: 8
  L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
  Memory: 5 GB
  Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz

  Chipset Model: NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500
  Type: GPU
  Bus: PCIe
  Slot: Slot-1
  PCIe Lane Width: x16
  VRAM (Total): 0 MB
  Vendor: NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID: 0x009d
  Revision ID: 0x00a1
  ROM Revision: 3011

  Any Ideas?

  Thanks!

  Todd Kopriva replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Andy George

  August 28, 2010 at 9:45 pm

  From the Adobe CS4 online help

  Important: Because not all features of a composition can be rendered with OpenGL—and because some features that can be rendered with OpenGL are rendered with different results—you may only want to use OpenGL rendering to accelerate previews and to provide faster rendering for non-final results.

  https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79e8a.html

  Basically…Open GL does not work well. Most people never use it.

  -Andy George
  Senior Editor
  http://www.chiselindustries.com
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  Haik Katsikian

  August 28, 2010 at 11:35 pm

  Thank You. Kind of sucks!
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  Todd Kopriva

  August 29, 2010 at 4:39 am

  It’s a preview renderer to make placement and animation of 3D items faster. That’s all that it’s intended for.

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