Continuous Rasterization and Pre Composing?

[Dan Blaim]

The continuous rastorize button is located in your timeline window between the “shy” (hide layer) and your quality (wire,draft,best) the button header looks like a sun.

[Michael Brodner]

Okay so I did check to make sure that was selected and it was, for all layers. Here’s what happens now. Looks like either the camera needs adjustment or maybe the rotation of the text layers.

Here’s before pre-composing:

https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/Bonesone4/Picture1-22.png

and here’s after:

https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/Bonesone4/Picture3.png

Notice how the camera switched on me a little bit. It looks like the text layer is still slightly off…

[Dan Blaim]

Also I just noticed. If Suretarget is referencing certain layers will it still work if the layers have been combined into one layer? Try precomposing again and include the Suretarget layer.

[Dan Blaim]

OK, try clicking on the continuous rastorize for the precomp layer.
Or try turning the continuous rastorize on the individual layers off and just do it on the precomp layer.

[Michael Brodner]

now when I alt click on the pre comp, it won’t let me switch off the continuous rasterize button. ???

[Dan Blaim]

Is the continuous rastorize button active on the precomp layer? Are your layers locked? Another thought is that you are increasing the size of the overall composition and some camera/layer adjustments will be unavoidable.

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

You’ve created the initial comps in HD720 but now need to output to HD1080. 1440×1080 is anamorphic HD, it’s actually 1920×1080 but the 1440 has rectangular pixels.

My suggestion is to work in non-anamorphic HD and convert from 720 to 1080.

First off, duplicate the 720 comp as a backup. Then use the Javascript (in the Scrpits folder within the main AE folder), Scale Comp to convert from HD720 to HD1080.

Everything should now line up except that things are in 1080.

The next step is to nest this HD1080 (1920×1080) into a 1440×1080 (HS 1080 anamorphic) and ensure that you fit the nested comp to fit.

But before doing the previous step, I will check with the client to ensure that they can’t accept a true HD1080, 1920×1080 output. CHances are they will.

HTH
RoRK

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[Jon Geddes]

I guess nobody else noticed that he had his precomp as a 3D layer? This is probably whats causing the camera shift problem. When you applied the sure target effect, the camera is moving around your precomp in 3D space (since you made it a 3D layer). Your precomp should be a 2D layer, with the collapse transformations turned on.

Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com