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Precomped Stroke Effect not showing up final comp
I’m having some trouble seeing my comp with a stroke effect (Production Premium CS5.5) so I’m hoping someone can help out . . .
I watched the Aharon Rabinowitz tutorial on masking a signature and applying the stroke effects to it. Each stroke of the signature is set to Paint Style: On Transparent.
I then precomped that so I could speed up the stroke on effect using the time remapping. If I RAM preview this comp I can see it.
Then I took that precomp and put it in a final comp with other graphics. That precomp is on the top layer. I can see the layer’s bounding box when I select the layer but I cannot see the stroke effect/signature on. Also, all I can see is the precomp background color.
If I render it Lossless with Alpha, then import that movie back into AE, I can see the effect I want with all the other layers behind it. Problem solved? More of a workaround with a 4GB :30 rendered comp.
Thanks for any help.
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Dave, sorry for the confusion.
I rendered my signature comp in Lossless AVI with Alpha and the size of the :30 comp is 4.6GB.
Can I use this? Sure. Do I want that taking up space on my media drive? No.
Also, I would like to understand why my prerendered comp of the write on (Stroke) effect does not seem to have an Alpha channel.
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Here’s an update. If I render my final comp in AE, the Stroke on effect is rendered.
If I use RAM preview or drag the pointer through the comp, it doesn’t show up.
The obvious problem here is not being able to check size, positioning, effects before rendering.
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