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Effects disabled?
Hi,
I’ve just pre-comped some layers and for some reason the effects on one of the layers ain’t working. I can see the effect controls as I set them in the effects control panel, I can’t see anything on the comp that might have switched the effects off… they just ain’t working anymore.
It’s pretty late here in the UK and I’ve been working a while so I might be missing something really basic (again) but I can’t see what!
Any help much appreciated.
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3 Replies
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Is it possible you clicked off the checkbox for that layer under the “fx” column of the timeline buttons?
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I’ve found what it is, although I don’t really understand why it’s happening.
I’m extractimg some bitmap images from their plain white background using a mixture of rotobrushing and masking to preserve the white elements I want to keep.
For some reason though, the rotobrushing only lasts for a second or so, so all the background elements suddenly re-appear. Should be a fairly simple fix.
Cheers!
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I’m still on CS3 for a few more months so I haven’t used the new rotobrush yet, but based on the way rotoscoping usually works and how other AE brush tools work, perhaps there’s a parameter you have to set to tell it the draw timing and, if not, it defaults to one second.
Just a guess since you didn’t get any other answers … sorry for the AE 101 type first answer and that I couldn’t be more help … you just said “the effects on one of the layers ain’t working” and didn’t mention you were using rotobrush so, considering the post is in the Basics Forum, I figured it might just be the effects switch.
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