[Jeremy Kemp]

One more question…

The video clip I am having to pre-render is 263 MB…when I add the Bevel and Emboss and pre-render it, it takes up an enormous about of space. Can you recommend the best output settings…(Best Compression settings with RGB+Alpha). The original clip is 1280X720 and was exported from Final cut using the H264 Compressor. I added a drop shadow as well as the Bevel to the clip in AE…I am assuming that I need to shrink it down a bit before I pre-render so that the drop shadow is visible on the prerendered clip. Which means I will need the clear alpha, correct?

[Jeremy Kemp]

I’m sorry Dave, I misread your previous thread. I thought you said “precompose” when what yoiu said was “pre-render.”

My Bad.

[Jeremy Kemp]

That works, except then in order to have a clear image in my main comp, I have to turn on “continuous rast” which then causes the image to be seen on the other side again.

[Jeremy Kemp]

BTW…when I turn off “Collapse Transformations/Continuous Rast.” it fixes it….but then of course I have distortion issues.

[Jeremy Kemp]

I am currently having this same problem…any other ideas?

I have am creating concrete pillars that are 3-dimensional. I want to put video clips on the pillars, like artwork in a gallery. When I apply a bevel and emboss layer style, the video becomes visible on the backside of my pillar. I have all my pillar sides precomposed. I have tried precomposing my video clip and applying the layer style in the precomp, but no luck. Anyone have any experience with this?

[Jeremy Kemp]

When I do all this….which parameter do I use to rotate it…do I use rotation of the layer…or do I use the completion of the card dance or card wipe….using the completion I was able to get the image not to be mirrored, however, it was taking away the effects on the backside (lights, color and texture I applied).

Hope that makes sense!

[Jeremy Kemp]

the thread I read did not say anything about rotating a comp. This is what it said:

I just used this Expression. Got it from the Dan Ebberts bag of Expression tricks a while back-

Switch off the Back Layer. Apply the following Expression to the Front Layer. Ensure that the Blend effect is applied to the Front Layer. Then apply this expression to the “Blend With Original” parameter

LayerName=effect(“Blend”)(“Blend With Layer”).position;
a = to_world_vec([0,0,1]);
b = LayerName – to_world(anchor_point);
c = dot(a,b)/length(b);
if (c > 0){
0
}else{
100
}

[Jeremy Kemp]

I tried this and it was not working for me. It was still flipping the logo. I got various results when playing with it, but nothing I did worked.

[Jeremy Kemp]

wow, I never knew about that script…I just tried it and it saved me hours of work. Thanks a lot!

[Jeremy Kemp]

Just figured it all out…I apologize for all the threads …I had precomposed my graph and was zooming into the pre-composed layer, but I just discovered that if I go to the original comp and zoom inot the original line layer, it looks perfect. There is something technical there that I just don’t know about.