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Bevel and Emboss causing problem…
I have am creating concrete pillars that are 3-dimensional. I want to put video clips on the pillars, like artwork in a gallery and have a camera move around the room showing different video clips. When I apply a bevel and emboss layer style to the video clips, the video becomes visible on the backside of my pillar. I have all my pillar sides precomposed. I have tried precomposing my video clip and applying the layer style in the precomp, but no luck. Anyone have any experience with this?
When I turn off “Collapse Transformations/Continuous Rast.” it fixes it….but then of course I have distortion issues.
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That works, except then in order to have a clear image in my main comp, I have to turn on “continuous rast” which then causes the image to be seen on the other side again.
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I’m sorry Dave, I misread your previous thread. I thought you said “precompose” when what yoiu said was “pre-render.”
My Bad.
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One more question…
The video clip I am having to pre-render is 263 MB…when I add the Bevel and Emboss and pre-render it, it takes up an enormous about of space. Can you recommend the best output settings…(Best Compression settings with RGB+Alpha). The original clip is 1280X720 and was exported from Final cut using the H264 Compressor. I added a drop shadow as well as the Bevel to the clip in AE…I am assuming that I need to shrink it down a bit before I pre-render so that the drop shadow is visible on the prerendered clip. Which means I will need the clear alpha, correct?
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Ugh, the same issue occurs with text and graphics…am I really going to have to prerender all my text for this to work? Seems like a pretty big glitch in AE.
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Dave,
Thanks so much for your honest answers. Your wisdom is appreciated. I only hope that after years of experience I will have the same knowledge.
I have my master HD clip I can use instead of the H264. I don’t necessarily have issues with large file sizes. I use H264 when uploading videos in HD to vimeo. I used the H264 in AE because I thought using the uncompressed HD clip would slow AE down.
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This is amazing new info to me…can’t thank you enough…any idea about the text thing? Do I have to pre-render my text layers like I did my video or would it be better to just create text in Illustrator and import?
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Pre-rendering the footage with the Bevel and Emboss layer style solves the problem for the video layer. I have tried this and know it to be true. If by “convert the video and see what happens” you mean see if this keeps you from having to pre-render your bevel and emboss(?), then no…I still have to pre-render for it to work.
My separate text layers in my comps have the same issue as my video layers did (becoming visible on the reverse side of my 3d pillar objects).
I was under the impression that our previous talks about H264 videos were only regarding files sizes/performance/quality of the final product.
Is there something you have been trying to tell me that I am not understanding?
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