[Michael Alperowitz]

Thanks! Same thing happened to me and I was freaking out. Love this site!

[Michael Alperowitz]

You sir are a GENIUS! That was the problem. Cannot thank you enough.

[Michael Alperowitz]

Not clear on what you mean by Layer Styles. The layers in the nested comp have effects on them. If that’s what you mean, obviously it doesn’t help me to turn them off/eliminate them since they are part of the design.

[Michael Alperowitz]

Thanks for the response. Yeah, I never had this issue with any previous version of AE.

– I created a comp with a half dozen thin horizontal lines that stretch from end to end. Over each line I placed a small glow effect that slowly travels across the lines. The lines were created by resizing solid layers. The glow is Knoll Light Factory effect.

– I took that comp and placed it in my main comp. That’s when I lose transparency as I explained before. The main comp consists of photoshop files and one FCP reference file (720×480 29.97 DV/DVCPRO-NTSC)

– In main comp there is a camera layer and 3D layers. However I am not using the nested layer as a 3D element. On a side note I tried turning off camera layer but problem still exits.

– The main comp uses the NTSC DV preset and the nested comp uses NTSC DV Widescreen.

– One more thing. A work around I tried was rendering the lines as a movie (Lossless + Alpha) and importing but for some reason it seems like AE did not render out an alpha channel. I placed it in both my active comp and a new comp of its own but no alpha.

I’m thinking there must be an issue with the program. Not sure what other info I can give you. Hope this helps.