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  • AE changes 3d layer when send to render

    Posted by Brian Adams on January 21, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    I’ve got a 3d space with an animated camera moving through trapcode form. In this space I have a video clip that I’m trying to play, as a small window to the side of one of the particles. (Project is for church announcements, zoom to a particle, have text come up to support Voice overs; video is a clip of a special speaker.)
    In my comp everything looks great but when I send it to render AE rearranges the video layers to a different orientation.
    I’ve tried everything from pre-comps to rendering parts and comping them together later. I’m out of ideas to make this work right and I have no idea why it’s doing this.

    Steve Renard replied 17 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Steve Renard

    January 22, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Let me make sure I understand what you’re saying:
    You’ve set up a comp with a camera move, where you have one layer with Form applied, and at least one other layer with video playing back, where you’re moving the camera in toward a particle and a video layer. In your comp it looks right, but when rendering it appears as though the layer order has been messed with, causing something not to look right – perhaps z-fighting or a layer disappearing altogether. Is that right?

    If so, check your render settings to see if there’s something going on in there. If you’re rendering to an interlaced format, try rendering with “Field Render” set to different settings. Or that “Effects” is set to Current Settings. It could be any number of things, really. It could also be any number of things within the comp itself, but those are hard to guess at without some more detail.

    If you could post a screenshot of what it looks like in AE, and then what the render looks like, that might help diagnose the problem better.

    Cheers,
    Steve

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