adjustment layers opacity

[getho]

whats the story? Sometimes I can fade in an adjustment layer, sometimes not.  Is it supported?

Sometimes when the fade fails I can put a mask on the effect in the adjustment layer and fade that it. 

But sometimes that doesn't work either.

[R Neil Haugen]

How are you applying them, what effects used, over what type of media?

And "fading" ... how exactly?

Neil

[getho]

fading - using opacity keyframes on the adjustment layer

effects - various including lumetri

application - adjustment layer in a layer above the media, with an effect on it (not sure what you mean here because I cant think how else you would use an adjustment layer).

[R Neil Haugen]

Could be all sorts of things "faded in" or attempted to. Transitions, without handles for one. That's been raised here I don't know how many times. Most transitions need handles though some, when used in AL's, or some other effect used as a transition, will work properly. And a few things don't seem to work in AL's, at least as one would expect them to.

I've never had trouble fading in/out say Lumetri, though.

There's actual a couple ways to use Opacity with say Lumetri on an AL ... the first is obvious, just use the layers main Opacity setting. The other ... use the Mask option in Lumetri in the ECP, expand the mask to cover whatever you want (even up to the whole screen), then use that opacity control for Lumetri, without affecting anything else on that AL.

So there are multiple ways of doing this ... which is why the specific effects you've used that had problems, the specific situation they're used in, and what problems they had matter to sorting this out.

"I've occasionally had something like this ... what?" doesn't have the info to solve the puzzle.

Give the specific example, then we can try.

Neil

[getho]

Hi Neil,

you have reframed my question with much more detail!  That's why I was asking if it is supported - ie if adobe designed them to work this way.  I would say any effect applied to an AL , then faded should be like the layer below being duplicated , the effect applied then that layer being faded.

If it fails to work is that because it is asking too much of the software/hardware or is there something intrinsically in the code that stops it from working?  (If that's the case, then the long way round is always the way to go!)

[R Neil Haugen]

The various effects are not all processed in the same way, nor have the same ... parameters, perhaps? ... to their operations. Some don't work too well or at all on AL's, and some work just fine. It's like learning how to use track mattes ... it's very simple & fast for someone experienced with it, but when you're starting, it can be very frustrating. Little things you forget cause big issues.

Neil

[Kevin-Monahan · Accepted solution]

Hi Getho,

There is an order of operations in effects creation referred to as the render order pipeline. When some items do not work as you'd expect them to, that is what is usually going on. You can usually solve the issue by nesting items to change the priority of the pipeline. Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Kevin