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Yiannis72
Yiannis72
Inspiring
June 20, 2015
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Frame blending icons explanation

  • June 20, 2015
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Hello!

     In Adobe After Effects CC 2014 I cannot understand which of the following icons is for advanced pixel motion blending method. Could you help me on this?

I am attaching the relevant picture files.

Thank you!!

Yiannis.

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    Correct answer adamneer

    I believe picture 1 (the film frames icon) indicates standard tweened frame blending (combined frames using dissolved opacity)

    picture 2 (forward arrow icon) indicates pixel motion frame blending

    picture 3 means no frame blending enabled

    picture 4 (curvy line) indicates bicubic sampling for layer quality.  This is a newer feature added in 2014 which greatly improves the quality of scaling/rotating a layer.  I always enable this for any scaled or rotated footage.

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    adamneer
    adamneerCorrect answer
    Participating Frequently
    June 21, 2015

    I believe picture 1 (the film frames icon) indicates standard tweened frame blending (combined frames using dissolved opacity)

    picture 2 (forward arrow icon) indicates pixel motion frame blending

    picture 3 means no frame blending enabled

    picture 4 (curvy line) indicates bicubic sampling for layer quality.  This is a newer feature added in 2014 which greatly improves the quality of scaling/rotating a layer.  I always enable this for any scaled or rotated footage.

      Mylenium
      Mylenium
      Brainiac
      June 21, 2015

      Adam is correct. This is also explained in the help files, though it seems the page hasn't been updated to include all info:

      After Effects Help | Managing layers

      Mylenium

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        Derjis
        Inspiring
        June 21, 2015

        Mylenium wrote:

        Adam is correct. This is also explained in the help files, though it seems the page hasn't been updated to include all info:

        After Effects Help | Managing layers

        Mylenium

        Thanks, guys! I knew what they meant back when they were still the solid slash and the dotted slash, but Adobe changed the icons with CC2014 (I think it was CC2014?); at the time, I actually went searching for an explanation of the icons online,but couldn't find anything.

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        Derjis
        Inspiring
        June 20, 2015

        I find this super confusing, as well. Can anyone enlighten us?

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