After effects adjustment layer has no effect on any layer I want to apply effect to.

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November 20, 2017
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hello everyone,

So im new to after effects and im trying to make an edit, but to make one of the transitions I have to use an adjustment layer and put it above the two clips i want the transition to be in. The problem is that whenever i apply the transform effect and change the position to the adjustment layer it doesn't seem to add any effect to my clips, meaning that when i play the video its like nothing happened, like no edit or change was made. My guess is that my adjustment layer isn't working.

If someone knows how to fix this it would really mean a lot!

Thanks! XOXO

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Mylenium

Legend

The whole workflow is rubbish, quite frankly. Effects are first and foremost applied to the layers themselves, especially effects that change the geometry/ shape. You seriously need to read up on this stuff and get away from the notion that adjustment layers are even necessary. It just has become a bad habit purported by inexperienced users watching "bad" tutorials from other inexperienced users.

Mylenium

Kyle Hamrick

Community Expert

It's a bit tough to figure out exactly what you're doing from your description, but an adjustment layer will indeed affect whatever is beneath it. There are several factors that could be contributing to your problem.
- Is your adjustment layer the size of your comp?
- You said you're adjusting position - within the Transform effect, or on the layer itself?

It also sounds like you might benefit from learning some of the basics - a lot of great info can be found right here on this site.
There's also some info & links about adjustment layers specifically.

PauK07Author

Participant

Thank you for the answer,

yes my adjustment layer is the size of my composition and yes im using the transform effect and applying it to the adjustment layer, and then i change the position of the adjustment layer, but i has no effect on any layer beneath.

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

If you apply a transition to an adjustment layer every layer below the adjustment layer will have the effect applied. Take Linear Wipe for example. All layers are now treated as one layer so a wipe from left to right would wipe all layers from left to right and the only effect is that all layers would disappear.

Transitions need to be applied to the layer you want to reveal. It is that simple. You are way overthinking the process. The only time you should be using an adjustment layer is to make a change on everything below that layer. Adjustment layers give exactly the same effect as Pre-composing all the layers and applying the effect to the pre-comp.

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