From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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Exploriong continuous rasterization - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
Exploriong continuous rasterization
- [Instructor] In the past few movies, we've been focusing on the internal render order that After Effects uses when calculating each layer. Normally it's mask, followed by effects, followed by transformations, and if you have it applied, followed by layer styles which happen last in this chain. You can not drag and reorder these processing steps but you can use precompositions to divide up parts of the rendering task. For example, do an effect and a precomp then move to a final comp and perform additional transformations and masking et cetera. Understanding this render order goes a long ways towards demistifying what After Effects is doing when it creates a composite. However, After Effects does not always follow this rendering order and these exceptions are what we're going to focus on in the next few movies. We're still in the composition render order.aep, close all compositions you may have opened previously, then open up the comp render example three restorization. The biggest…
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