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Adjustment Layers — Affecting only certain layers without Precomping
I need my adjustment layer to only effect the first half of the layers in my comp and not the bottom. Precomping is not an option due to some camera moves. I seem to recall a tutorial about creating some kind of layer which would cut off the fx of the adjustment layer at that point in the stack. It has something to do with how AE processes FX but I can’t for the life of me find it. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Jon
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Maybe it was all dream, but I’m so certain that there was something about a certain kind of layer breaking up the render order. I will try precomping with Continious Raster on and hopefully that will work. Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
Jon
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You can break the render order of the 3D renderer by inserting empty adjustment layers (as per Andrew Kramer’s reflection tutorial for instance), but adjustment layers with effects applied will always affect all layers below them and apply those effects. I also don’t believe that pre-composing is not an option. Even if you have camera moves and stuff nothing is stopping you from working with copy&paste and duplicating items…
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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I think that is I was confused with; adjustment layers breaking up 3D elements. Thanks for the all the responses, I ended up just pre-rendering elements instead. It worked fine but doesn’t give me the flexabality to change camera moves. Maybe the mechanics of breaking up an adjustment layer isn’t possible but it would be a nice feature in a future version of AE.
Jon
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