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Changing opacity of a comp with continuously rasterised layers
Hello,
I have a comp that has 2 illustrator ai layers that are set to ‘continuous rasterize’. I then also set the actual comp in my main comp to the same setting and scale it up to the size I want, and all looks fine. However, when I adjust the opacity of this comp, rather than adjust the opacity of the comp as a whole, each layer of my comp seems to have the opacity adjusted separately and I can see through each layer of my comp. i.e.; I can see the bottom layer through my top layer.
Why is it doing this and is there a way around it?
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5 Replies
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The “continuously rasterize” setting for vector layers is called “collapse transformations” for comp layers.
Instead of rendering the comp layer and then applying transformations and blending to the composite as a whole, collapse transformations tells Ae to apply transformations and blending to each element within the comp layer individually, as if it were inside the main comp.
If you can size the elements in the precomp so as to avoid the need to collapse transformations on its layer in the main comp, you can avoid this issue.
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Thanks Walter, will do
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I recently had this same obstacle. I got around it by creating a black solid layer above the comp that was being continuously rasterized, and then using a luma track matte.
The black solid could change opacity and keyframe, and the track matte applied a universal opacity change accordingly.
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This is brilliant solution when we use continuous rasterizing of multilayered precomposition together with opacity! Thanks!!!
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Another quick workaround for this is adding the Transform effect to the layer and adjusting the opacity through the effect instead of the layer itself.
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