Effects on Adjustment Layers turn the canvas huge

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August 10, 2022
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There's an issue that's been bothering me for some years:

For example, if we have a 1080p comp (not collapsed) with a CC Lens effect in it, everything works fine.

But if you use an adjustment layer with the effect and you have more layers below the comp, especially if they are bigger than 1080p, the processing gets very slow and, sometimes, it gives me an error saying that the resolution is way bigger than the one I'm using.

Is there any turn around or pre/post effect, like "grow bounds", but in this case to restrict the resolution to the canvas of the comp and ignore the excess pixels?

I hope I'm being clear on this complex and very specific topic.
Thank you,

Élio

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

Adjustment layers affect everything below them. They drill right through Collapse Transformations and everything else. The effect is limited to the Alpha Chanel of the Adjustment layer, but some effects ignore layer boundaries.

Adjustment layers are handy for things like overall color correction, adding grain, or similar effects. It is almost always a bad idea to add Distortion effects to Adjustment layers. You are almost always better off to Pre-compose the layers, then add any distortion, motion tiling, or other similar effects to the nested comp (the Pre-comp).

I'm with Mylenium on cropped screenshots. Please embed a screenshot of the whole UI with the modified properties of the problem layers showing. Press 'uu', copy the screenshot image file and paste to the reply form, drag it in there, or use the Toolbar to embed it, so we don't have to download it to see it.

Mylenium

Legend

Cropped screenshots of just the error message don't tell us anything. You need to provide images of the comp and timeline for anyone to be able to understand your issue.

Mylenium

Legend

There is no requirement for any such effect because it already works this way. Effects are tied to the layer bounds even when applied to adjustment layers. In particular distortion effects would work this way, anyway, since the boundaries define the pinning of the distortion. Whatever issues you have therefore are either a result of circumstance like combining specific effects and features or simply more general issues like bugs or simply genuinely running out of memory. Since you haven't offered any system information, specific details about your project or screenshots, we cannot say more than that. Again, this is not a fundamental flaw in how AE is designed to work, it's something else.

Mylenium

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Élio24395250i6bwAuthor

Participant

In fact, it happens mostly with distortion effects. Actually, I have two powerful machines and it happens on both of them.

Yesterday I used a Turbulence Displace effect on an adjustment layer. It froze my render and said that I didn't have enough RAM (see attached image). My solution was to paste the same effect directly into the comp (that made me use more layers because I was dividing them), and it worked really well. So, once again, I don't understand why the same effect above exactly the same layer struggles a lot if it is on an adjustment layer.

PC: 32 Gb of RAM; an Intel Core i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz 3.60 GHz; NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER

Mac: Macbook Pro 16 M1 Pro 16gb of ram

The project is not that heavy, and I'm working on a 1080p project, also with 1080p imported .psd's.

What I feel is very strange is that it has been happening a lot since the last update.

I also tried rendering with and without the multiframe render and it doesn't affect anything.

Thanks,
Élio

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