Color Depth And Effects; About Audio Effects; Effects With A Comp Camera Attribute - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

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Shows the individual effects, animators, and properties that make up an animation preset.
Show Presets Contents
To see a preset's components, click the triangle to the left of the preset's name.
Note: Animation presets appear in the Effects & Presets panel only if they are located in the After Effects application
folder or a subfolder of the application folder. If you move them to a new folder, place a shortcut (Windows) or an alias
(Mac OS) of that folder in the Effects & Presets folder.
Shows only 16-bits-per-channel and 32-bits-per-channel effects.
Show 16 bpc Effects Only
Shows only 32-bits-per-channel effects.
Show 32 bpc Effects Only (Pro only)
Opens the folder that contains the effect selected in the
Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (Mac OS)
panel.
Updates the list of effects and presets to include changes in the list made during an After Effects
Refresh List
session—for example, if you add, move, or delete presets or shortcuts to presets on your computer and outside After
Effects.

Color depth and effects

Many effects in After Effects support processing of image color and alpha channel data at a depth of 16 or 32 bits per
channel (bpc). If an effect supports only 8 bpc, and your project is set to 16 or 32 bpc, After Effects displays a warning
icon next to the effect name in the Effect Controls panel. Using an 8-bpc effect in a 16-bpc or 32-bpc project may
result in a loss of color detail. You can set the Effects & Presets panel to list only 16-bpc or 32-bpc effects.
Each color depth is indicated with an icon: the 32-bit Effect icon , the 16-bit Effect icon , or the 8-bit Effect
icon .
See also
"About color depth" on page 61

About Audio effects

Any audio effect can be customized to radically change the sound of the original audio. For more impact, you can
duplicate a layer that contains audio effects, add additional audio effects to the duplicate layer, and then turn off the
original layer's effects to hear only the processed audio.
Many audio effects include Dry Out and Wet Out options. Use these to specify the mix of unprocessed (Dry) and
processed (Wet) audio in the final output.
For more information on audio effects, see "Audio effects" on page 384.

Effects with a Comp Camera attribute

Some of the After Effects effects can use a composition's camera and lights. These effects include Card Dance, Card
Wipe, and Shatter. Some always use the composition camera, while others include light and camera options in the
Effect Controls panel. When you apply an effect with a Comp Camera attribute to a layer (2D only), it can track the
composition's camera and light positions and render a 3D image on the 2D layer to which it is applied. See "To create
a light or camera layer" on page 151.
The effect's results appear 3D; however, the layer with the Comp Camera attribute applied remains a 2D layer and
consequently has the following characteristics:
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3D layers above and below it in the Timeline panel cannot interact with one another.