CC Composite effect

CC Composite: An Overlooked Effect

https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/cc-composite-an-overlooked-effect/

After Effects Quick Tip: CC Composite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIxHZWrnVxw

If you haven't done so already, definitely look into the following:

• Adjustment Layers
• Nested Compositions

Sorry, but you've written a lengthy, yet kind of useless post. It's one of those "a picture's worth a thousand words" things, where screenshots of the timeline/ effects panel make a hundred times more sense than even the most verbose description. That said, soem effects simply override preceding effects and operate on the source item, not the processed buffer of the previous effect just like using dynamically rasterized layers liek text and shape layers has its own set of rules. Combined with teh fact that CC composite is built on the "old" blending functionality as it existed in versions of AE pre CC, some of the limitations are simply inherent, though in their own way still logical. Or to put it another way: You may need to work on your overall understanding of how AE's rendering order works, not so much try to coerce the effect into doing something it can't. It's the old gag of people trying to do too much in one sweep, because they are so hell-bent on avoiding pre-composing due to their mistaken impression of it being a bad thing (often informed by garbage video tutrorials), when in fact it's a fundamental workflow principle in AE. and therein likely is the answer: You may just need to pre-compose your text layer at a given point to make it re-usabel and get correct rendering of effects.

Mylenium