• Adobe After Effects

  Mask/Motion Blur bug and fix(?)

  Posted by Jackie Kustan on May 13, 2016 at 6:31 pm

  Hi! This is my first post to this forum, though I’ve used it many times as a resource. I ran into a strange issue and thought I’d report on it here, and see if anyone else has had it/come up with a better solution (I also reported this on the Adobe Forums)

  I’m using After Effects CC 3.7 (updated today) so I dont believe there is a patch that solves this.

  I have a mask on a precomp that looks like this when rendered correctly:

  

  

  However, when I try and render the file as a lossless MOV through the render cue in AE (“Best Settings” and “Lossless”) the mask shifts for a few random frames:

  

  This does NOT happen if I render through Media Encoder (by “Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue”

  After a lot of trial and error, I found that this does NOT happen (ie the mask renders correctly) if I select “Off for All Layers” for Motion Blur in the Render Settings panel (circled here with the default setting):

  Jackie Kustan replied 10 years, 3 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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