I have a serious issue with the adjustment layer fea
whener i make a new adjustment layer and try to apply a preset or new setting on it, it’s not responding or reflecting at all as example I applied a transation preset on the adjustment layer but still the timeline goes on as it’s not even excite
If the preset is applied to the 'Motion' properties, this will not take effect on the layers under an Adjustment Layer. For 'Position', 'Scale', 'Opacity' and 'Rotation' properties to work on adjustment layers, a 'Transform' Effect needs to be applied to the adjustment layer, and those properties should be adjusted in the Transform Effect properties not in the Motion properties. This will take effect on all the layers under the Adjustment Layer.
You can also apply the preset you have directly on the clip, it will work. If your clip already has other effects or presets applied and that was why you are using an adjustment layer, you can also nest that clip and apply the preset to the nested sequence of your clip.
You have many options, it all depends on how your workflow is structured
Thnank you for the concise answer. Would you or anyone be able to explain why Adobe decided to implement it this way? It's pretty counter-intuitive for Motion and Opacity to not work in an adjustment layer. It seems like the adjustment layer just isn't working. Why are these effect special and require a separate effect to be added when the adjustment layer already has Motion and Opacity? I don't understand the thinking behind it.
If they are going to do it this way, then why not make the effects section of a blank adjustment layer completely empty - as in not including Motion and Opacity effects since they don't do anything anyway.
An adjustment layer is a specialized effect in and of itself. Which is something that isn't "intuitive" or obvious. It doesn't exist in "reality", not at all like a clip of media. It's sort of like a special "nest" of effects.
So it isn't at all in use ... or code ... like having a clip that you put effects on. Which by code is a very, very different thing.
I had an engineer explain this to me one time. It's a bit puzzling to work with. And to understand, certainly. There are major differences between how effects on a clip and how effects on an AL work behind the scenes
And it's one of numerous bits of PrPro that don't really have a full and clear explanation anywhere I know of.
I had the same problem. I'm a beginner using AE for one specific text effect so I don't know how/why this worked but I recreated an adjustment layer, first clicking on the initial layer that I wanted to adjust and then adding the adjustment layer and it worked.
The Transform effect is in the Effects list. Just type "trans " in the search box at the top, under Video Effects the Transform effect will be visible. Drag/drop that to the AL. Make changes for scale, rotation, skew and other things on the Transform effect in the ECP.
I have already used the Transform effect in my respective adjustment layers, but they still don't seem to work. However, only the Adjustment layers in 1 specific track (V3 in my case) doesn't work - the rest of the adjustment layers do. I tried making a new track and pasting the Adjustment layers over, but it still does not seem to work.
I believe I may have a solution to this. I was having the same problem as most in this thread page, where my adjustment layer wasn't actually adjusting the layers beneath. I was trying to make a simple scale up of the layers beneath it, but nothing was happening.
As mentioned, you have to apply the 'Transform' effect on an adjustment layer to do what I am trying to do. With that in mind, it still wouldn't work. I eventually noticed that in the 'Motion' section of my effects panel for the adjustment layer, the scale was, by default, set to 0. Once I scaled my adjustment layer up to 100, i.e the size of my frame, the effects of the 'Transform' effect then took place, and worked.
I hope this helps some of you, and apologies if it isn't the solution. It's quite a subtle one. All the best, everyone.
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