Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer?
by Jonathan Kempe
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May 13, 2008 at 10:24:57 am
I have a stack of about 100 objects in a Comp and a Adjustment layer on top of it. One layer in the middle of the stack is not to be affected by the Adjustment layer. Is that possible to do with an expression maybe?
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Simon Bonner on May 13, 2008 at 11:41:11 am
Maybe you could precompose as Jack suggests, but precompose ALL the layers, then copy ALL the layers from the precomp and paste them back into the main comp (your main comp will have a precomp at the top and all the other layers below)
Next, toggle the visibility off for the adjustment layer and all layers you want the adjustment layer to affect in the MAIN comp, and toggle the visibility off for the layers you don't want the adjustment layer to affect in the PRECOMP.
Though this will double the size of your project, it will mean that all the layers are present in both comps so parenting will not be affected.
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Jonathan Kempe on May 13, 2008 at 12:00:06 pm
Thanks for your help!
But I really like to find a more simple way to exclude just one layer.... (I figure this is one reason why peple use shake instead of ae?)
Maybe this could be a good AE plug in? Think if you just could use "exclude adjustment layer plugin", just drop it on the layer you want to exclude, than choose the adjustment layer you want to exclude...
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Jack watts on May 13, 2008 at 12:27:26 pm
Sorry i did not know that you had parenting applied.Yea i see where you are coming from. Its is quite tedious do do all that work just for one layer to free of the adjustment layer.Maybe you should contact adobe about it I remember there was a similar post there a while back regarding the same issue that you are dealing with! Or you could also check Dan Ebbert's site and see if you can manipulate an already existing expression to suit your needs!
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Dave LaRonde on May 13, 2008 at 2:44:54 pm
[Jonathan Kempe]"I have a stack of about 100 objects in a Comp and a Adjustment layer on top of it. One layer in the middle of the stack is not to be affected by the Adjustment layer. Is that possible to do with an expression maybe?"
Nope. Sorry. However, you can add the SAME effect -- only with inverse settings -- to the layer in question.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Dave LaRonde on May 13, 2008 at 3:00:32 pm
[Ian Corey]"What about a mask?"
To quote the Borg, resistance is futile. An adjustment layer affects EVERYTHING below it. Now, if you animate a mask in the adjustment layer, the layer doesn't affect anything where the hole in the layer appears.
BUT.... do we actually know if that would work -- for example, are there intervening layers that should be influenced by the adjustment layer -- and if it could be done, how elaborate would that mask animation have to be to pull it off?
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Jonathan Kempe on May 13, 2008 at 3:02:53 pm
Using a mask is difficult when using a lot of layers that are both over and under and cuts into the object with transparancy. A possibility is to manually make a mask by making 99 layers black and the one layer white.. but then again, thats not a simple solution rather a workaround...
Re: Exclude ONE layer below Adjustment Layer? by Jeremy Allen on May 13, 2008 at 10:24:24 pm
[Dave LaRonde]"However, you can add the SAME effect -- only with inverse settings -- to the layer in question."
Dave, can you expand on this a little bit? I've had the same problem with Adj layers in the past, but I like the idea of your solution... How do you apply effects with inverse settings?
