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frank8001
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September 5, 2017
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Continuous rasterization and effects

  • September 5, 2017
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My mission is to use vector images and text in a way that I can zoom in / move close with the camera with the vector footage maintaining its "full" resolution.
At the same time, I need to be able add effects such as keying to the footage.

So far, I have tried this in two ways:
1. Place the footage inside of compositions with a high resolution and use these compositions in the main composition.
Disadvantages: AE becomes very slow, crashes, renders blank.

2. Activate continuous rasterization for the layers.
Disadvantages: Effects such as keying that I apply to the layers do not have any effect.

E.g. for a text inside a comp, when turning on continuous rasterization, AE resets its size. When next I scale it up to a few hunderd per cent, AE crashes.

What would be a working setup for a project like this?
Can keying be applied to continously rasterized layers?

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Correct answer frank8001


Thanks for reacting. The source footage is in swf format without layers. Illustrator won't open it. I did find a workaround for this.


So I'm assuming vector images / continuous rasterization and effects don't go along in AE.
This is one of the most specific info I have found on this topic so far:
"Normally, when the switch is not turned on, operations occur in the following order: masks, effects, transformations, and layer styles. This happens as the layers in the stack are being rendered from bottom to top. When you have the switch checked on, it's telling After Effects to change that order of operations. The order will then be calculated with transformations being calculated first followed by masks then effects." Source: One Switch to Rule Them All | Pluralsight

Now I'm still trying to scale up a comp (continous rasterizing on) with text inside, without seeing AE crash.

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Dave_LaRonde
Dave_LaRonde
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September 5, 2017

You can animate the opacity of layers.  No chroma keying needed.

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frank8001AuthorCorrect answer
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September 6, 2017


Thanks for reacting. The source footage is in swf format without layers. Illustrator won't open it. I did find a workaround for this.


So I'm assuming vector images / continuous rasterization and effects don't go along in AE.
This is one of the most specific info I have found on this topic so far:
"Normally, when the switch is not turned on, operations occur in the following order: masks, effects, transformations, and layer styles. This happens as the layers in the stack are being rendered from bottom to top. When you have the switch checked on, it's telling After Effects to change that order of operations. The order will then be calculated with transformations being calculated first followed by masks then effects." Source: One Switch to Rule Them All | Pluralsight

Now I'm still trying to scale up a comp (continous rasterizing on) with text inside, without seeing AE crash.

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