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“Flatten” effects
I am starting with a grey solid, and then using Hue/Sat to colourize it – hue and sat etc are linked using expressions to another comp.
I am trying to use digital anarchy’s colour sampler to pick up the new colour of the grey solid – but it’s only picking up the original grey solid.
If I can calculate the colour of the grey solid after it’s hue/sat effect using an expression then that’s fine – all I need to know is the colour 🙂
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You might have to precompose the solid including the hue/sat effect. I don’t know if the DA effect can see the new colour without doing that.
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Steve is right, you’ll need to pre-compose the color shifted solid.
After Effects has its own logical order of applying/considering effects on layers (which doesn’t always make sense to the user). Essentially AE is looking at the ‘footage’ (the solid) behind your Hue/Saturation effect to grab the color. If you pre-comp the layer (make sure you ‘Move all attributes into new composition’) AE will consider the pre-comp as footage after all the effects have been applied in the pre-composition.
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