[David Fleury]

Solved this. It was a simple matter of moving the Fill left filter above the DeNoiser in the effects stack.

Thanks

[David Fleury]

Im actually looking to make the path “The” Emitter. I think I may be able to simply make a very thin mask and using a Layer Emitter

[David Fleury]

Actually forget the fire part – I just found a preset that I can mess with.

[David Fleury]

Actually clearing the buffers and restarting did the trick. Im not sure what the 14,000 is referring to? I dont have a layer nearly that big in the comp unless it is the stretch in preset that is triggering that.

Thanks everybody.

[David Fleury]

Switching to the Animation codec did the trick.

[David Fleury]

Let me try the avid codec / comp size issue. as far as I can tell by responses Ive gotten 5this could be the only thing I havn’t checked or tried yet.

thanks

[David Fleury]

Hey everybody, Thanks for the replies. I have already tried inverting the alpha channel and that seemed to make no difference.

I posted this question in the AE forum as well and got a response there about rendering with the Avid codec, which I am doing.

I am going to try that suggestion tommorow morning to see if it works. I will post it as the solution if it works.

Thanks

[David Fleury]

This same problem happened to me when I was cutting and pasting masks from a resized piece of footage to a solid at comp size and this same fix also takes care of this problem.

[David Fleury]

No need to apologize… glad you figured it out. And you gave me another point on my checklist of “Stuff that can go wrong”!

[David Fleury]

You need to turn on your “Continuosly Rasterize” switch for that layer. Its the switch directly to the right of the Hide shy layers switch and looks like a little sun shape.