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  • Filled eye on layer video switch

    Posted by Jason Byfield on February 17, 2011 at 2:06 am

    I’m wondering if anybody out there can explain what it means when the iris of the “eyeball” of a layer’s video switch is filled. I brought a .PSD into AE CS5 as a comp and some of the layers have that “zombie eyeball” instead of the normal eyeball and I can’t find any documentation online about it. Just a curiosity thing…

    Todd Kopriva replied 15 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jason Brown

    February 17, 2011 at 2:19 am

    I believe it happens when it has certain blending modes, or is used as a track matte.

  • Todd Kopriva

    February 17, 2011 at 6:14 am

    Jason’s close. It shows that a blending mode, Preserve Underlying Transparency switch, and/or track matte is used by the layer.

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