AE type/layer styles/animation 1111 Responses

Last post: 11 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Jun 15, 12, 4:49 p.m.

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• CyBrainX

  My problem is that the layer effects are being rendered after motion blur and even basic movements, so there's an unintended effect that's not very smooth. Is there a setting to fix this? I'll see if I can post an animated gif.

  

  Jun 15, 12, 4:49 p.m. – Permalink

• CyBrainX

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 4:58 p.m. – Permalink

• lambsy

  check your keyframes holmes.
  ^ best i can assume without seeing files.

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 5:06 p.m. – Permalink

• lambsy

  are you using text in AE?
  if you are, the long difficult fix would be to rasterize the type and make it a photoshop file, then import it as a psd.
  or can you rearrange the order of the filters?
  is there a setting which says allow text to motion blur?
  im just grabbing at ideas here.

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 5:09 p.m. – Permalink

• CyBrainX

  Lambsy, I imported everything from a PSD, converted the text layer to editable text and used AE's animation features with an animated range. (3D enabled). There aren't any filters, just the layer effects from Photoshop that are editable in After Effects. I'm not sure I can change the order of those, but I'll look into it.

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 6:29 p.m. – Permalink

• lambsy

  i would try and move the text into its own composition. Get it to look exactly how you want it, then bring it into the main comp. Seems the Animated range is screwing with everything. try to achieve a similar effect by using a different plugin perhaps?

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 7:05 p.m. – Permalink

• M_C_P

  It looks like the comps motion blur setting is set to low samples per frame. So rather than getting smooth blurs (16x) it looks like 4or 5

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 7:24 p.m. – Permalink

• CyBrainX

  I checked the comp settings and it was 16 for samples.
  I tested the animation without each of the layer styles and it turns out the stroke is the culprit. I can get it to look right if I set the stroke to center or inside, but not outside. What a strange bug. Here's a source file if anyone wants to check it out. Sorry if you don't have AE CS6.

  http://www.talesfromthehead.com/…

  • Just discovered CS6 will let you save down to CS5.5 so hopefully that helps.– CyBrainX

  

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  Dog-earJun 15, 12, 7:49 p.m. – Permalink

• ridg0026

  I believe there's a 'force motion blur' effect/filter in there somewhere that allows you to manually keyframe the blur -- dont have AE in front of me to see where/how tho.

  

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  Dog-earJun 16, 12, 7:26 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrainX

  CC Force Motion Blur. I'll look into it.
  http://library.creativecow.net/a…

  

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  Dog-earJun 17, 12, 4:37 p.m. – Permalink

• animatedgif

  Layer effects are bad citizens in AE, they tend to be slapped on top of everything.

  Doesn't look like you're using AE's actual motion blur engine there?

  Anyway if you precomp the layer effect and then animate the position of that it'll fix it, or use the built in AE Fill or bightness effect instead of PS Layer Effects

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 12, 2:04 a.m. – Permalink

• CyBrainX

  I was using AE's actual motion blur engine.

  I don't think I can use that kind of type animation if I precompose the type with layer styles.

  It's the stroke effect that's causing the problem.

  

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  Dog-earJun 18, 12, 3:08 a.m. – Permalink