[Scott Mccall]

I guess what i am referrong to is, for example, if you apply the animation preset “wiggle – gelatin” to a shape, it alters the path of that shape eith expressions through a deform effect… there isn’t a way to get the result of the expressions applied to the shape’s path, I don’t think…

I am fguring out some workarounds though, but it would have been much easier if I could just extract the resulting deformation. there are lots of deformation/transformation effects that change the shape or position of something, but then you’re left with its pre-effect shape instead of the resulting shape…

[Scott Mccall]

ok, i guess that works for parameters such as position, rotation, etc, but not for a path that is being deformed by an animation preset…

am i out of luck on this one then?

[Scott Mccall]

thats exactly what i was searching for 🙂 thanks so much!

[Scott Mccall]

oh, yes, i did look at the footage interpretation, everything is the same, ntsc dv, same pixel aspect, same fps, same color depth, same everything…

the weird thing is that compressedd footage doesnt have the same proble, its only with uncompressed. i tried quicktime uncompressed as well, same problem..

i might just try exporting the project and trying it on another PC because this makes no sense.

[Scott Mccall]

i just solved the problem, maybe you can make sense of this:

i remembered the other day i used the effect “force motion blur” to fix some shadow issues, and i noticed that it also improved the quality of some 2d images in the comp…

so on a whim, i tried adding force motion blur to the project, and still nothing… then i thought, well let me try turning up the shutter angle to 360 (default is 180).

and woah! PERFECT. what a difference

the composition settings motion blur did not do anything, the “force motion blur” effect fixed it perfectly. go figure..

the problem is it takes much much longer to render.. i mean like 4 to 8x longer.

i reduce the time considerably by setting “samples per frame” to 2. setting it to 1 had no effect on the avi quality.

still, i don’t know why i am having this issue. somethings going on… but at least this is a fix for now…

[Scott Mccall]

I exported it from after effects… its just a regular ntsc dv avi…

i just don’t get what could be happening to screw it up like this..