In the main comp the white background disappears because of the blending mode. Inside the precomp Looks sees everything as 100% opaque. In your main comp click the 'continuous rasterization' option (looks like a little sun icon) for that pre-comp layer, and that should resolve the issue.

Then set the blending mode for the solid to Multiply.Ħ. Then below your footage add a solid that fills the whole background area.Ĥ. Follow the guide to getting Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks Free Download. You will get a brief description of the Red Giant.

Inside the precomp add Looks on an adjustment layer above your footage.ģ. Full Detailed guide on How to Download the Magic Bullet Looks plugin in After Effects. Precompose the element(s) you want to apply Looks to that needs to maintain an alpha edge.Ģ. My fairly easy work-around that seems to work ok is the following:ġ. Using a black background is useless if one is trying to use any of the myriad of effects in Looks to blend a CG element into a background plate for example - such as adding halation to just the rendered elements.

If Magic Bullet Looks doesn't work well with transparency layers, an actual work around would be finding a way to utilize the effects needed from Looks while taking the transparency issue into account. This is a half answer that doesn't provide an effective solution.

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