• Adobe After Effects

  blur an extruded object?

  Posted by Jef Huey on May 22, 2012 at 12:08 am

  Just started playing with the new extruded object and raytrace renderer.
  I extruded some text then tried to add a Fast Blur. Nothing.

  I precomped the text and added the blur. Nothing.

  Seems like some sort of limitation here. Anybody know what is going on?

  CPU renders only – no GPU.

  Jef

  Roland R. kahlenberg replied 13 years, 12 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  May 22, 2012 at 1:04 am

  You cannot apply effects or masks to Continuously Rasterised Text, Shape Layers and nested comps.

  What you should do is to nest (not precomp) the Ray-traced Comp into another comp. Then apply your effect.

  HTH
  RoRK

  Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Singapore and Malaysia
  Adobe ACE/ACI (version 7) & Imagineer Systems Inc Approved Mocha Trainer
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  Jef Huey

  May 22, 2012 at 3:41 am

  AH!! Thanks for the insight.

  Jef
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  May 22, 2012 at 3:18 pm

  You’re welcome Jef!

  Cheers
  RoRK

  Intensive AE & Mocha Training in Singapore and Malaysia
  Adobe ACE/ACI (version 7) & Imagineer Systems Inc Approved Mocha Trainer

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