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    • Dithering to Opacity?
      Thread posted Jun 23 by horneee
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      Dithering to Opacity?
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      Hey guys,  I'm new to this After Effects stuff, so I need some beginners help.  I imported my timelines from FCP using XML--that took some doing.  I don't know how to do the simplest of effects, so the only way I know how to do a dissolve is to use opacity (I do have other stuff going on in the layers).  On most of my timelines, the dissolves work as expected.  On one, with no perceptible different settings, the dissolve goes into a dither pattern (an FCP reference--it looks like a dither dissolve).  Its like a miniature puzzle wipe instead of a dissolve.  These are all in the same project.  I can't see any difference in any settings between the ones that work and this one that doesn't.  What did I click on to screw this up?  :*

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    • Instead of using opacity, try creating a dissolve by going to: animation > keyframe assistant > sequence layers

      set the duration, and select dissolve front layer.

      For this to work correctly, you must select the layers on the timeline in the order you want them to dissolve - prior to running this command.

      Let me know if this works for you.

      Good luck!

      elaine

    • Hey thanks, that effect looks like it will be very useful.  BUT it didn't solve the problem.  It looks like everything in this one timeline gets this dithering except text--I have .R3D footage through Keylight, Photoshop .tif files and externally generated .jpg s.  All the places there should be anti-aliased edges turn blocky.  I'm viewing in Full resolution.  As I set the cursor over a point, the first view looks great, then a few seconds later it looks like this around all edges.  Shouldn't that be the other way around?  On other timelines, it looks crummy in Full for a few seconds until the computer can render the clean image, then it looks great.  I must have clicked something but I can't see what.  

    • I never did solve my opacity problem, but trying the keyframe assistant did knock a bunch of my scenes out of sync.  OK, I'm too creative, I wasn't using exact dissolve alignment--deliberately.  The assistant aligned them.  Now I'm trying to make sure they are re-aligned with my audio.  When I look at the individual clips, the time code I see is relative to the clip start. Where is the original Red camera time code that is embedded in the clip?  How do I see that?  After Effects doesn't seem to see it, nor does it provide for a toggle to see it.  

      Come to think of it, I can't get any audio out of this at all.  I produced the full audio mix to sync to in FCP/Soundtrack and rendered it to a single AIF file, which I put into the After Effects timeline.  The 4K Red clips are so big, they overload After Effects--there is no way to play it in real time.  So it doesn't bother me too much that I can't hear sound to see lipsync in After Effects.  But I've exported a Quicktime movie with audio attached and no audio is on it.  Sigh.  Good thing I'm not trying anything complicated.