• Adobe After Effects

  Pre-comping SHINE?

  Posted by Jimmy Brunger on May 10, 2007 at 1:46 pm

  Hi all,

  I’ve got a problem whereby I have a text layer with shine applied to it that I need to pre-comp with a bunch of other related layers into my main comp…the shine effect gets cut off when I move the pre-comp around in my main comp – the edges of the precomp are cut off sharp. Continual rasterize doesn’t really work because shine then tries to re-calculate it’s point of origin and messes up.

  Any thoughts how I can get around this?

  My quick fix is to put a soft edge mask around the offending layers, but it’s far from ideal.

  Any thoughts appreciated.

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  Steve Morris replied 19 years ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Mike Procunier

  May 10, 2007 at 2:04 pm

  I’d make your pre-comp size large enough so that it’s edges don’t appear on screen as it moves?
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  Steve76

  May 10, 2007 at 2:07 pm

  That’s what I’ve done in the past aswell. Crank up the Pre-Comp size so you don’t get the cut off. Works fine for me.

  cheers

  steve
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  Jeff Dobrow

  May 10, 2007 at 2:16 pm

  ‘Grow Bounds’ should handle this perfectly.
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  Jimmy Brunger

  May 10, 2007 at 2:48 pm

  I am such a fool – Of course! Thanks guys..think I need a coffee and a talking to..

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  Steve Morris

  May 10, 2007 at 4:00 pm

  You may need to move GROW BOUNDS up in the rendering order after you add it, for it to work.

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