• Adobe After Effects

  Fading out lights?

  Posted by Chris Cummings on July 28, 2008 at 8:37 pm

  I’ve got some lights set-up in a comp (AE CS3 Pro) that I’d like to simply fade out while retaining the rest of the comp above and below the lights. It doesn’t seem there’s any way to do this except to lower the intensity, however, this turns the scene completely black. I must be missing something…even tried the trusty Trish & Chris Meyer books and couldn’t find anything on this…

  Thanks for any help!
  ~Chris

  Chris Cummings replied 17 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jon Etheridge

  July 28, 2008 at 11:08 pm

  I recommend taking the layers you don’t want affected by the lights and go into the material options (make sure you have 3D layer switched on) and change effected by lights from on to off. I hope this helps. 🙂

  -Jon etheridge
  -Appsro Inc

  Jon Etheridge
  ethproductions(at)yahoo(dot)com
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  Chris Cummings

  July 28, 2008 at 11:10 pm

  That does help, I had no idea you could do that, thanks Jon 🙂

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