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Tapered trim paths flickering

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 23, 2023
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Hi all, I am experiencing weird flickering when I apply taper to smoothed (bezier) trim paths. They seem to work fine if I keep them linear, but smoothing the curves brings out random errors in the animation. Tried smoothing the anchor points in Illustrator before bringing them to AE, but the problem still shows.

Even though this example curve comes from AI, the same issue can be recreated with simple curves created on a shape layer.

Tried switching GPU/CPU rendering, no luck.

Currently on Win 10, AE 22.6.0, but I was able to recreate the same issue on different versions of AE 2023 on a couple of different computers.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks!

Troubleshooting

Inspiring

Hi! Just a quick fix I found regarding this issue.

Really not a logical fix but clearly a workaround for this bug:

Every stroke has 3 subgroups: Dashes, Taper and Wave.

Just open the wave menu and insert a minimum value at the wave amount. Even 0.1% works for me. Suddenly, the flickering is gone.

Hope it helps someone!

Community Manager

Community Manager

That’s helpful. Thanks for sharing the workaround.

Best,

Nishu

Participant

Im running into the same issue with my long tappered paths. anyone find a fix, yet?

Community Manager

Community Manager

Thanks for writing in and reporting the issue. I can see the issue on my end in the file shared by Andras. Reporting a bug for further investigation.

Sorry for the delayed response.

Thanks,
Nishu

Participant

I'm running into the same issue, maybe someone will figure it out eventually.

Participant

Uploaded the project file for testing here.

The error with the marker looks like this on my computer: