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CucaramblaX
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March 11, 2024
Question

CC Composite Time Sampling Issue

  • March 11, 2024
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The CC Composite samples over only the first frame of the footage - true / false?

EXPECTATION: I expected CC Composite to layer the original over my filtered layer - that's at least what all tutorial makers show, as there is no description in AE Help, which specifically forwards to Cycore, who tell even less.

REALITY: As soon as I applied CC Composite to Time Remapped precomp, where time value is other than 00:00:00:00, I get what's seen in the screenshot; Overlay mode used.
Apparently, it is time-remapping-unrelated thing, which is also independent from Preserve Frame Rate/Resolution When Nested switches. Tried to enable/disable those with no change in behavior.

 

What would be the workaround? I need to composite time-synced and filtered footage over itself within the bounds of same layer.

 

AE 24.2.1. | Win11Pro

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    nishu_kush
    nishu_kush
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    March 11, 2024

    Hi CucaramblaX,

     

    Thanks for creating the thread and posting the workaround. Feel free to create a feature request about it in the Ideas section of the community.

    Let us know if there are any other questions.

    Note: Moving this thread from Bugs to Discussions.

     

    Thanks,

    Nishu

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      CucaramblaXAuthor
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      March 12, 2024

      Hey nishu_kush,

      Unfortunately, there was no workaround, which I was implicitly looking for. And, the issue still needs a solution for the cases where the user needs to re-iterate duplication of many layers that contain any effect that has a Layer Control widget.
      Yeah, completely possible to solve it by writing a scripted action, however, unless such script already exists, this solution is unavailable for the users with no familiarity to javascript, even more - to AE libraries.
      Btw, can you suggest the script that creates x copies of the layer which also will preserve relative links to self/other layers in applied effects?

      P.S. IDEA: whole layer duplication process should be revised, so that it checks for self-references - any effect that uses a layer pulldown property that points to its own name, keeps this specific setting. Otherwise, open that property to the expressions, where user can insert thisLayer.

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      CucaramblaXAuthor
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      March 11, 2024

      Ok, apparently there is no bug, and the effect works as expected.
      The "bug" happened when duplicating layers - it just keeps original layer's setting, even it was pointing to itself - the pointing-to-itself wasn't duplicated. And, there is no way to script the TopLayer property to thisLayer, which in turn undermines the flexibility of automatic layer customization - user will need to enter the every copy and re-set every layer and effect with Layer control properties.

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