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OK, so I didn't want to jack the "Blurs" thread started by Darrell Toland, but I have a similar problem...
I have two examples... Motion Problem 1 and Motion Problem 2. Just download the QT file and take a look...I don't have a website to post on, and FTPs change it to .flv and look like crap. Sorry.
Anyway, it's a map that zooms in to an area (Atlantic Ocean). Atlantic Ocean text has Volumetrix effect on it (glow). Problem is, the effect makes the text blurry and it doesn't move correctly with the rest of the zoom. You can see that in Motion Problem 1. With Motion Problem 2, I split the text at the point where the glow starts (making it two layers) and put the effect on the second layer. So it goes from looking good to jumping and getting blurry right when it gets to the layer with the effect.
I keep thinking back to specialcase's render pipeline comments about applying effects to top (parent) layers that have been nested rather than individual layers, but that wouldn't work here.
Any suggestions how to keep the text from blurring when an effect is applied? Thanks.
Jonathan
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Thanks, Peter. I don't know why I didn't just post this on your forum...since you developed the effect! I've got it bookmarked and all. I'll mess with the fixed layer stuff. But what about the effect making the text blurry, or "soft." You can see that in Problem 2...where it goes from crisp (no effect) to blurry (just as the effect starts) or in Problem 1, where the "Atlantic Ocean" text is softer than the rest since it has the effect applied.
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