Re: beam effect is shaky

Hi Kevin.

The beam is on a solid in the precomp; composite on original is set to off. In the main comp, I added the echo filter to the layer w/ the precomp in it and set it to the settings you suggested. When I set the operator to natural, it didn't seem to make a difference; screen and add turned it into a solid white line. My guess is that did something with the alpha channel (perhaps that tells you something about how I constructed it that may be relevant).

Would AE be creating two fields for each frame, i.e., interlace it? The way the beam appears as it wipes across the screen reminds me of weird things that sometime have to do with interlace problems.

Thanks.