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Idea corner one: Crossfading stop motion frames

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Idea corner one: Crossfading stop motion frames

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You may remember earlier in this lesson where we used the Preserve Frame Rate option in Composition Settings to preserve a stop-motion feel of one comp nested into another. However, there's a small gotcha that comes with that and a really nice workaround that you might want to use. Now you may remember that we had a pre-comp with our stop motion footage feeding into a final comp we're going to render. Normally in that final composition you will notice that the Frame Blending switch isn't even available for text layers, solids, or nested compositions. But let's say you indeed wanted that frame-blended look as you went between the stills inside that source footage. The way that you do that is you'd go back to your source composition, make a movie of just a composition, Best Settings, Lossless. That's what I want. And I double-check the Best Settings to make sure it's using this comp's frame rate and set it to be the length of the composition, since I want entire clip, OK. And when we…

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