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Drop Shadow (Rasterization?)
Hi everyone,
I’m trying to apply a drop shadow and cc page turn to a comp, but when I apply both, the drop shadow becomes a cloud of dots and I have no idea why. I thought it might have to do with continuous rasterization, but I’m not sure.
Here are the details of the comp:
(I’ve attached an image of what is happening)The white rectangle in the middle, and all the graphs on it, are nested in a composition. The white rectangle was created in Illustrator. When I apply a drop shadow to the composition that contains the rectangle, I get the dot cloud. When I apply the drop shadow to the rectangle inside the comp, it looks fine in both the rectangle comp and the main comp. However, when I apply CC Page Turn to the comp, the drop shadow changes into the dot cloud.
One interesting thing is that when I move any of the drop shadow control sliders, the dot cloud changes to a proper drop shadow as long as I am moving the slider.
I’ve never seen this before and was wondering if anyone could tell me what was going on!
Thanks everyone!
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4 Replies
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The white rectangle is in a pre-comp. I’m sorry – I should have been clearer about that.
The dot cloud appears when I apply the drop shadow to the rectangle inside the precomp and when I apply it to the precomp itself.
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Thanks for the suggestion. However, I tried turning Open GL off and it didn’t help. I also played around with the various settings but it didn’t help.
The problem seems to be with this particular composition. I just remade the comp from scratch, applied the same effects in the same order, and dropped it into my main comp with no problems. I have no idea why the dot cloud appeared, but I was able to rather inelegantly workaround.
In any case, thank you so much for your help!
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Seems to me that blending mode was set to Dissolve instead to normal…
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Ah ha! That was exactly the problem. Thank you Mato. I shan’t make that mistake again!
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