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  Time Warp makes effect dissapear!

  Posted by Jacqueline Cheval on March 6, 2011 at 10:54 am

  Hi,

  I am quite a beginner in AE and struggling with the following problem:

  I got a Ps stills layer which I applied a scatterize effect to, and I want to change its speed using time warp – slowmo – fast and slowmo (time remapping doesnt work with stills).

  It wouldnt let me, as soon as I apply the time warp effect, the scatterize effect disappears! please help, I have been looking for the answer everywhere.

  Jacqueline Cheval replied 15 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Joey Foreman

  March 6, 2011 at 3:24 pm

  Precompose the layer, then apply the Scatterize effect in the precomp. Apply Timewarp in the main comp.

  Joey Foreman
  Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
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  Jacqueline Cheval

  March 6, 2011 at 6:23 pm

  Thanks for the reply.
  That (nearly) worked, but shortly before the effect comes to an end, it enlarges and distorts for the length of one frame. Any idea?
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  Joey Foreman

  March 6, 2011 at 11:56 pm

  Actually Time Remapping should work just fine with a still, as long as you animate it in the precomp.

  I don’t use Time Warp much, precisely because of its tendency to cause distortion and artifacting.

  Joey Foreman
  Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
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  Jacqueline Cheval

  March 20, 2011 at 4:46 pm

  Thanks, I tried that in the first place, but felt that I didnt get the
  control over the time as good as with time warp. It kind of worked to
  get the “speed – slowmo – speed” effect though I have to admit that
  the way keyframes behaved in time warp didnt make sense to me as eventhough I had the exact same keyframes in each and every layer,(both main comp and pre-comp), the layers responded very differently and besides normally, an interpolation between 2 keyframes happens faster when dragging them closer together, here it was slower.

  Again, thanx for the pre-comp advise.

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