Frame blending icons explanation

[Yiannis72]

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.

[Derjis]

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

[adamneer · Accepted solution]

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]

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

[Derjis]

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.

[Yiannis72]

Thank you very much guys and Adam!!