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January 30, 2024
Question

Levels Effect not showing anything in Histogram

  • January 30, 2024
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Greetings, I'm not much experienced so far in AfterEffects, nevertheless, I'm facing an issue, which I'm unable to solve.

 

I'm trying to create a realistic water flow. I already created the animation and paths, but when I came across the texture, I was unsuccessful in doing it. I'm halfly following this tutorial => https://youtu.be/GLwpCNil3XE?si=D70xb_fRAtc3wta3&t=1181 ... the differences, which I'm doing. 1. The water is on an object, so I'm not using CC Glass effect and 2. I created specific paths with the pen tool and then animation by Taper and Trim paths. 

 

I found out two problems:

1. When I click on the TrackMatte setting on the BackGround layer. I only see "No Matte" and the two layers, while there should be Four options + No Matte (Alpha Matte / Inverted, Luma Matte / Inverted). If I choose the Water flow layer. The result looks similar to the tutorial, so I'm not sure if it is a problem.

2. When I add Levels Effect on the Water flow layer. I got nothing in the Histogram and if I try to move any of the settings, it changes nothing, which is stopping me in creating the texture.

 

I suppose it's because of some settings, but I don't know. If someone will be able to help me, I'll be grateful

 

I'm on Windows btw

 

Tygnar

 

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YuriwexyAuthor
Inspiring
January 30, 2024

This is the content of the layer, which is showing nothing in the Levels Effect (without the black background)