• Adobe After Effects

  Multiple Light Streaks in a video

  Posted by Rommelcrasta on October 28, 2006 at 8:04 pm

  Hello All,
  I am fairly new to After Effects and would appreciate everyone’s help. I successfully managed to create light streaks in my video from the ‘light streaks’ tutorial. Now however, I am trying to add multiple light streaks but of different colors. I can add the light streaks just fine(I duplicated the Particles layer, Emitter layer and the Adjustment layer) but they end up being the same color.

  Does anyone know of how to fix this problem??

  Thanks very much in advance!
  Rommel Crasta

  Chris Smith replied 19 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Chris Smith

  October 29, 2006 at 2:57 am

  Hi Rommel,

  Welcome to After Effects. The reason this is happening is because an adjustment layer acts on all the layers below it. So the adjustment layer at the top of your list is overriding any adjustment layers below it. If you turn off the tup one I think you’ll find that the lower one does indeed color the particle layer below it.

  To solve it, you’ll want to precomp each group (adjustment layer and particle layers) into their own comp. Or try just putting the hue/sat effect right in the particle layer itself instead of using an adjustment layer.

  Anyhoo. If both groups (or more) are precomped, then just set the top precomp to something like the “Screen” transfer mode so it will show over the other precomp within your main comp.

  Fro more info on precomposing, and transfer modes, check your manual or help files.

  good luck.

  Chris Smith
  https://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

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