[Jeremy Winter]

Excellent, after some tinkering around with Nesting and lowering the frame rate the lightning is moving much more naturally now. Definitely more appealing to my eyes. I had noticed before that when I rendered a small video at half the frame rate that the lightning was moving at a more desirable speed, but I did not want to lower my frame rate for my entire comp for obvious reasons. Nesting was the perfect answer.
Thanks for the great help once again Dave.

[Jeremy Winter]

Excellent that worked perfectly. When I ignore the alpha channel the foreground and background are both visible and there is no lines in my animation. I just hope when I really want that alpha channel this doesn’t come up again, but that is for another day! Now I just need to figure out why my .swf files eat up all my ram.

Thanks for the great help Steve, let me know if I can render you up a beer for your troubles 🙂

[Jeremy Winter]

In response to Ben, unfortunately changing the blending option of the layer did not correct the problem. It changed the color of the line but little else. In my comp view I have to set the channel view to RGB Straight to see both the background and foreground. Is that normal?

In response to Dave, that is a very good thought. I did not however plan to use this on NTSC devices, although I probably should have, so the framerate default of 30 is correct for my render.

Thanks again for the reply’s. I’ll have to render up some beers for you guys later!

[Jeremy Winter]

That sounds like a possibility. I’ll have to look in to that when I get a chance. Here is a link to a frame of the video if that helps at all.

https://crmusic.info/problem.html