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3D binning

3D binning - After Effects Tutorial

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3D binning

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- [Instructor] In this "After Effects Weekly", I want to call your attention to a small but important change for the 3D switch in the timeline. The official term here is 3D binning, and this consists of few new icons and display tweaks that shows you a visual map of how After Effects composites 2D and 3D layers together. This render order hasn't changed much since 3D layers were introduced to the application more than 20 years ago. When a comp contains both 2D and 3D layers, their order in the layer stack matters. Continuous 3D layers will render together in the same 3D space prior to being composited with 2D layers. Another way of phrasing this is that when 2D layers are in between 3D layers, they prevent the 3D layers from rendering together. Now, that's an oversimplification, but gives you the basics of the logic After Effects uses in these cases. To demonstrate these new indicators and how they work, I'm using this…

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