Re: Frame Blending a Pre-composed layer?

[joe ger] "The issue at hand is that pre-compose should really work like a pre-render and because it is not, for what ever bizarre reason, then there should be a pre-render option as well. If something is pre-composed then it will have a frame rate already embedded in it as as such should be frame blendable! "

If you import your time lapse shots as image sequences, AE will then treat the footage as having a frame rate, and then it will be able to do frame blending... along with the previous techniques I discussed earlier. You don't need to precompose then.

I don't know about PAL countries, but here in NTSC-Land AE defaults to 30 fps for image sequences. You can easily change the frame rate in the Interpret Footage settings, File>Interpret>Main.

And good luck. I have a feeling you're going to need it.

Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA