Brian Charles
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I’m going to guess: its the PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) of your Comp. What happens when you click the Toggle Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction button?
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Same as the previous example I uploaded, you need to copy the expression from the first layer and paste it to all other layers that you want affected.
To see whether the expression is applied select the layer and press EE (that’s E twice) on the keyboard to reveal the expression.
Make sure you have the Null and 2 sliders as in the example I uploaded.
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Sorry, I misunderstood. Here is an example that uses 2 sliders, one to control the overall opacity and another to control the offset. The layer’s number (its index) controls when it responds to the slider.
If you don’t want the layers to fade from bottom to top adjust the layer order.
463_opacityandindexcontrol.aep.zip
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Depending on your needs for layer stacking in the timeline there are a couple of solutions.
1) Place an adjustment layer above these layers and add the Transform Effect and animate opacity.
The issue with this method is that the effect will apply to all layers below the adjustment layer.
2) Add an expression control slider to the null object. Add an opacity expression to the first layer by alt/option clicking on the opacity stopwatch and pick whip it to the slider. Select the opacity property and choose Edit > Copy Expression only then select the remaining layers you wish to affect and paste.
Use the slider to control the opacity of all the layers.CS4 Example: 462_examplesofopacitycontrol.aep.zip
Or you could nest the Comp in another and control the opacity that way….
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Not exactly sure what the issue is, try resetting the default values for zoom, focus distance and aperture.
Right click on the property names and choose Reset.
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There are some amazingly useful scripts available, I find I’m using many more in my daily workflow, check these out:
https://nabscripts.com/downloads_en.html
Click on the link near the top of the page for nabLIB_v4.0
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So you can control all layers with the null if desired.
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I’m not sure what you’re seeing but this doesn’t happen in CS3 or CS4 for me. Of course if the layers are being seen from the side they disappear since they have no Z-depth.
Could what you’re seeing be either 1) an OpenGL issue (turn it off!), or 2) that the 3D layers are separated by a 2D layer (even an adjustment layer) in the timeline?
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I use Plane Space as well as some free scripts that produce similar results (check NAB scripts), Why not parent all the 3D ring layers to a Null and then position them properly on the floor.