Can you bake the gradient effect? I use Hayasidists Bake To PNG script for situations like this. Since this sounds like a rigged layer, I'm guessing not. In that case, try using an image for the gradient instead of the Gradient effect. You can use the Image Layer effect for this, or mask the gradien...

Deforming very high-resolution images can bog down a system. In this situation, make sure GPU caching is enabled. If possible, create versions of your assets with the appropriate resolution (i.e., for wide shots, reduce the image size.) Note: Some scaling issues can occur when setting these up. Ther...

It must be a display bug. Try this as a workaround: 1. Duplicate the Mask layer. 2. In the duplicate layer, set the mask property to Do Not Mask This Layer. 3. Set the Mask layer to Add To Mask But Keep Invisible. The display and render result should be correct on 0 and later frames. Be sure to use ...

Ok, NOW I see what you mean. Sorry, I hadn't stepped into an animation frame. Yes, I'm seeing the error too, and it appears to be a display-only error.

Layer B is a solid red circle that's being multiplied over Layer A, so it's coloring the blue as red, and Layer A is the mask for Layer B so its alpha is trimming Layer B's circle to a smaller circle. To me, this seems to be working here, even when I add a bone. Sorry, I probably don't understand wh...

Oh, I see...you have two separate shapes in your mask layer. Let me look again to see what you're trying to do.

It seems to be working here... https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dr1qciyyht3groczgoemj/2024-05-24_090709.png?rlkey=r3sx8ihib0w30qfww43pex44a&raw=1 I added the bone and then offset the mask to see what it was masking. Is this not correct? Update: Oh, wait...something is weird here, isn't it? Let me ...

There's are Copy/Paste buttons in the custom panel that you can use to apply the style to the regular side of the panel. This works, but be aware that it completely overrides any override changes you made in the regular side. I'm guessing what you really want is a way to automatically merge the sett...

[Revised from a previous post:] When I’m working on a production with multiple shots, I typically make a 'work' directory where I save incremental versions of my project, and the most recent version of the asset is saved outside of my work directory and has no version number. This unnumbered version...

I, too, wish there was a fixed Grid as an option. The layer-specific Grid is definitely useful (sometimes I wish other programs had this as an option,) but as a global 'project-wide' tool, it's not as helpful. For now, I would do what slowtiger suggested: make a separate overlay layer and use that a...

If you're using the Apple ProRes option, I think this is caused by a variable frame rate setting inside the codec. Apple iPhone videos do this, and it makes me nuts when editing footage exported from the phone--the playback looks fine, but the footage's frame rate is all over the place, which makes ...

I should add that, I don't typically bother naming shapes. It's a fairly new thing for me, and I only do it when I KNOW I'll be selecting and animating a bunch of stacked shapes in a rig or animation. Most recently, this was for the hair of characters in the last couple of productions I worked on, w...

On top of all those methods, I would use the export option "Render at half frame rate" at the Export Animation window.... Great call! I totally forgot about this option! :D Trying to recall exactly what we did on that Nissan anime commercial. (Geez...that was 23 years ago!) I believe we a...

Thinking about that...Is there a reason to name shapes (for the user)... Lately, I've been using Shape Names like crazy. This is mostly because I'm using layers with many shapes (30 or more in each layer), multiple instances of Liquid Shapes in each layer, and Rai's Shapes Window to manage and edit...

Cool! Glad that helps!