To Show And Hide Effects; Enhancing Time-Altered Motion By Blending Frames - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

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Choose Layer > Quality, and then choose an option:
Displays and renders a layer using subpixel positioning, anti-aliasing, 3D shading, and complete calculation of
Best
any applied plug-in effects. Best provides the slowest display and rendering time.
Displays a layer so that you can see it, but only at rough quality. It displays and renders a layer without anti-
Draft
aliasing and subpixel positioning, and some effects are not precisely calculated. Draft quality is often the most useful
setting for general work and for video layers (to avoid blurring when matching compositions to raw video footage).
Displays a layer as a box with an X across it. Layer wireframes are displayed and rendered faster than
Wireframe
those rendered with Best or Draft settings. However, layer contents or masks are not visible—only position and size.
Because of this limitation, wireframe quality is available only from the Layer menu.
You can set the default quality of new layers in General preferences; select or deselect Create New Layers At Best
Quality. (If this option is deselected, the default quality is Draft.) Duplicated or split layers retain the Quality setting
of the original layer.
See also
"To use Wireframe for previews" on page 140

To show and hide effects

Using the Effect switch
When you deselect this switch, the layer is displayed and rendered without its effects, saving previewing and
rendering time. This switch is available only if a layer has effects applied to it.
Do one of the following:
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In the Timeline panel, click the Effect switch for a layer to toggle between showing and hiding effects.
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Select a layer, choose Layer > Switches, and make sure that the Effect command is selected (to show effects) or
deselected (to hide effects).
Note: You can temporarily turn on or off an individual effect applied to a layer.
See also
"About rendering" on page 590

Enhancing time-altered motion by blending frames

Use the Frame Blending switch
footage—video, for example. You can apply frame blending to a sequence of still images, but not to a single still
image. If you are animating a layer—for example, moving a layer of type across the screen—use the Motion Blur
switch .
See also
"To apply frame blending to a layer" on page 239
"To enable or disable Frame Blending for previewing and rendering" on page 239
"About motion blur" on page 214
"To change render settings" on page 604
, you can control whether a layer's effects appear in both previews and rendered versions.
to enhance the quality of time-altered motion in a layer that contains live-action
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