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  • When I render time-reversed composition, it gets messy all the time. Why? Is it glitch?

    Posted by Yousuke Tadokoro on February 18, 2013 at 1:10 am

    Hello. I am using After Effects cs6.
    When I render my time-reversed composition, it gets messy.
    For example I time-reverse a composition that has track-matte layers. I preview it in AE and it looks good,
    so I render it.And The rendered movie is corrupted, because its track-matte isn’t time-reversed.

    Have you ever seen this kinda situation?
    Is it glitch? Is there any rules, something like “DON’T RENDER TIME-REVERSED LAYERS, OR YOU WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE.”
    I always use time-reversed compositions, because I always need to make loop movies, so I have to use time-reverse,
    but it is really unreliable.

    Yousuke Tadokoro replied 13 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Vishesh Arora

    February 18, 2013 at 4:18 am

    Yousuke

    “DON’T RENDER TIME-REVERSED LAYERS, OR YOU WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE.”

    I have never heard of any problem like this before, May be a its a bug. Do have the latest update installed?

    After Effects CS6 (11.0.2)

    Also if the RAM preview is fine then you can save the RAM preview:
    Go to Composition> Save RAM Preview and see if it works.

    Try using Set Matte Effect instead of Track Mattes and check whether the same problem occurs or not.

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  • Mathew Fuller

    February 18, 2013 at 6:57 am

    Just pre render out the track mattes as footage. Import and replace.

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    https://www.morecompletefx.com

  • Yousuke Tadokoro

    February 19, 2013 at 10:42 am

    Thank you for your advice.
    My sequence image is png files, and I know pre-rendered video works fine.
    If I apply time-remap and reverse the 2 initial key frames, it works fine.
    I don’t know why it works but time-reverse does not.

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