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CC Light Sweep
hey all-
I just finished a super complex project, and noticed a big problem.
I used CC light sweep on some AI files that had Collapse transformations/Continuously Rasterize on. These layers were flying through 3d space, sometimes sliding close to the camera. where these layers filled the composition, CC Light Sweep added some edge thickness to the edge of the frame.
At those points the edges of my composition has a shiny bevel on it.
I can’t turn off Continuously Rasterize. I’ve been trying to do some magic by precomping everything, and making the nested comp 5% larger (to hide this edge), but this screws up my camera’s perspective. I also tried to alpha mask out the edge, to no avail.
My last idea is to render out 1 comp with edge thickness at desired specs, and one with edge thickness dialed to 0.
This has been a long proj and this is a final note on top of hundreds the client provided, so i’m unwilling to change much. any ideas?
thanks for any suggestions..
rich
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3 Replies
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It’s probably a characteristic of the filter and can’t be helped, but I have no idea what you think you’re seeing. You could try to contact Cycore, they’re cool guys, might have a suggestions for you.
I just ran CC Light Sweep on a text layer and a simple solid. I cannot figure out any way to remove the edge, it’s inherent in the filter and is desirable in most applications. There are innumerable other ways to get a light sweep. Suggest you pursue one of those since the output of CC Light Sweep cannot be changed.
What happens if you use the CUTOUT reception option on a duplicate of your layer?
In the olden days, we’d use a simple solid line (or a masked layer) and some blur and a blend mode.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Thx for the post! Yeah, this feature in Light Sweep has been bugging me this time around.
Went with the render-intensive workaround. Two almost identical comps, one having all Light edge controls on all layers set to 0. this comp overlaps the original, and is masked just to cover the edge of frame.
I actually used that masked solid trick until recently because I didn’t know better!
thanks again
r
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[Rich Ramazinski] “I actually used that masked solid trick until recently because I didn’t know better! “
Rich, thanks for closing the thread with a successful solution, hardly anyone ever does that around here.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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