CC Composite effect

[Doum066]

Greetings all!

Still new to After Effects and motion design, started doing it about not even 2 years now, started doing it more seriously since september, i mainly was a print production guy and seems like, i turned out to have skill with this and in the agency i'm with now, i get pretty requested from creative teams (from what i'Ve been said) 🙂 So enough of my background and here comes my question.

One of my most mystified or hard to understand how it works is the CC Composite effect works., Some stuff seems to work with, some other not, and there is no way i can firgure out who this works, each time is playing around with the settingsa, and couldn'T find proper video or thread how to use this, sadly. For instance, i was trying to create a neon text, so i tried to have one part which had (a glow, Color Offset, Level and Fast Box Blur, then as sepearate with a CC Composite,  a Matte Chocker, Fill and Fast box Blur, couldn't figure out a thing, so turned out i duplicated the text layer and made it two layers with each elements.

Anyone has a point to either video or anything explaning these how it works etc..?

Thanks

[Mylenium]

Sorry, but you've written a lengthy, yet kind of useless post. It's one of those "a picture's worth a thousand words" things, where screenshots of the timeline/ effects panel make a hundred times more sense than even the most verbose description. That said, soem effects simply override preceding effects and operate on the source item, not the processed buffer of the previous effect just like using dynamically rasterized layers liek text and shape layers has its own set of rules. Combined with teh fact that CC composite is built on the "old" blending functionality as it existed in versions of AE pre CC, some of the limitations are simply inherent, though in their own way still logical. Or to put it another way: You may need to work on your overall understanding of how AE's rendering order works, not so much try to coerce the effect into doing something it can't. It's the old gag of people trying to do too much in one sweep, because they are so hell-bent on avoiding pre-composing due to their mistaken impression of it being a bad thing (often informed by garbage video tutrorials), when in fact it's a fundamental workflow principle in AE. and therein likely is the answer: You may just need to pre-compose your text layer at a given point to make it re-usabel and get correct rendering of effects.

Mylenium

[Doum066]

Well sorry for that useless post, i've been in the industry for over 25 years, and this is my first ever post on Adobe or even ask question, yes i'm new to After Effects and animating as i said, been doing only print or web stuff for that long until 2 years ago or less, so basicly not easy to deal with the olf stuff in AE or recent etc, the reason why i post, but i got to admist, if  you would had started to reply like this besides me in person, chances you would had been punched right away in the face, first time someone post ont he forum and get this hush reply start, not well my friend. And yes lots of tutirials are bad etc as you said, this is how i started to learn, i paid over 35k for a print industry course back then and trying to learn animation on the job and doing it, and basicly lots of big clients loves what i do now and that's all matter, i cannot be perfect has i didn't do After Effects for ages so, gota bare with new people my man and try to behave when they dare to post. and if you're an moderator, well, that's quite a bad way to wish welcome to someone 🙂

[Warren Heaton]

CC Composite: An Overlooked Effect

https://motionarray.com/learn/after-effects/cc-composite-an-overlooked-effect/

After Effects Quick Tip: CC Composite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIxHZWrnVxw

If you haven't done so already, definitely look into the following:

• Adjustment Layers
• Nested Compositions