Puppet "Phantom" Outline

[aprilrotelli]

Hi everyone!

I'm rather new to After Effects, and I'm having an issue with a phantom outline appearing.

I used the puppet tool to animate a logo, then I pre-composed the logo (it had two layers) and then I moved the position of the pre-comp. I did this because I was having issues with simply moving the logo's position and having the phantom outline. I read that pre-composing it would help, but I'm still having this issue. 

I saw another post on this issue in the community and some people said it has to do with the mesh expansion. I augmented the Mesh Expansion from 3.0 to 4.0, and this still didn't help. Any thoughts?

Photo attached of mid position change where it leaves the original position. 

[Rick Gerard]

Can't tell much from the cropped screenshot. Post a screenshot of the full UI with the problem layer selected and all modified properties revealed (press 'uu'). This could be a lot of things. anything from position animation on the layer to display acceleration and GPU problems. 

System, OS, and AE version details will also help.

[aprilrotelli]

Hi Rick,

Thanks so much for the quick response! I'm attaching two images, the first is inside the pre-composition and the second is my regular/full composition that I'm working in. I hope that makes sense and that I'm showing enough information.

[aprilrotelli]

Hi Rick.

Hope you are well! I was wondering if you saw anything in my screenshots that could indicate what is happening? 

I forgot to add also that I am working on a Mac with macOS Catalina and AE 2020 17.5.1

[aprilrotelli]

I increased the expansion to 250...which seems like a lot but the line finally went away. However, this is not ideal because it has stiffened my puppet. It still works, but not exactly how I had set it up originally. I wish I could find a solution to get rid of the phantom line completely without this occurring.