Digital Sandwich’s Glen Faught takes a look at collapsing transformations in After Effects, providing some information for just what exactly is going on when you toggle the “continually rasterize” button for a layer.

I know you’ve seen it, you’ve probably even used it a bunch of times. That little sunburst looking continuously rasterize button that makes your vector files nice and crisp

Glen notes that continually rasterize in After Effects also collapses transformations, showing three different examples of how collapsing transformations operate in an After Effects project workflow. Glen provides more information on using collapse transformations in After Effects, which you can find here.