[Joe Chiro]

And…I was missing something obvious: the new png was a different size than the one it was replacing, so it landed outside of the area where the effect was applied. Once I moved it into the correct area, the effect was of course visible.

Thanks again for taking a look at this…I likely would have spent a lot of time staring at the code instead of looking at the project and learning some more about AE!

[Joe Chiro]

Thank you for taking a look. I’m guessing it’s something interesting on the project side. If I figure out I will update my post. Thanks again!