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I’ve been using AE for 11 years and actually did the same thing with the color picker on Friday…and it took me an hour to figure out what I did.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Let’s say you created a precomp with some shapes, and it has an adjustment layer that inverted the color of the shapes. If you had continous rasterization turned on, that adjustment layer would affect all the layers below your precomped layer in your main comp.
That’s just one example of when you wouldn’t want to turn it on, there are many more.
I agree it would be nice if when you used vector shapes, you didn’t have to worry about them again, but it’s just not the way AE is built.
Glad I could help you out today.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Are you splitting this into 10 monitors for a staging company that will be displaying the video? I have had to do that before and the first step is to call the staging company and ask them “What do you need me to deliver”?
ETA: What Dave said…
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Are you scaling it up to fit the new comp, cause that would be the problem right there if you have any bitmapped images.
If your images are vectors, like text, shapes and such, press the “continous rasterization” switch. It’s the one that looks like a little sun. Example here
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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Have you tried using the “Smoother”? It’s under the Window tab, once you have the smoother window open, select all your keyframes and hit apply.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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There are some tutorials on the cow that might help you out understanding shatter, this first one is quite old, but will help you grasp the basics:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/unguren_ben/shatter.php
As to your question, shatter defaults with the force(the thing that makes the layer explode-it’s like a wrecking ball) right in the middle of your layer. To unexplode your layer you need to move that force either forward or backward, off the layer.
Using the pulldown and changing it to wireframe + forces will help you see what’s going on.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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If it’s not a lot of zoom, you could counter it by scaling the video up as the camera zooms out. If it’s a lot of zoom, most likely you will start to lose resolution proportionally as you scale the shot up.
You could try using Mocha or AE motion tracker to track the shot, but if you are new to AE, you are going to want to check out some tutorials first on how to use both of those tools.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Andrew Kramer made a preset and tutorial that might be helpful.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Glad I could eventually help.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb. -
Gotcha, wasn’t sure from the original question. Without seeing the project, I would guess that you have a solid with a lens flare effect on it. Try using Unmult from Red Giant. It’s a free plugin that will knocks black out of layer.
Sometimes after using unmult you might want to add a levels effect, change the pulldown to Alpha and add change the imput whites and blacks to strengthen the alpha.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
—THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.