Brightness

This property (which appears as a light bulb icon) controls the brightness of the layer output.

If the layers blend mode is set to Alpha, then reducing the brightness to 0 also reduces the opacity of the layer to 0. This can be useful when you want to dissolve from one layer to the next. In that case, you can place the new layer above the old layer and increase its brightness level.

Note

Layers that are patched to sockpuppet (DMX, OSC or HTTP) are made Dormant when their brightness is set to 0. This means they will not do any rendering or consume any resources until their brightness is changed to > 0. You can find more information about this here: Sequencing with Sockpuppet DMX. Layers without a sockpuppet patch do not behave in this way.