Learn how to use multiple compositions to group layers, accommodate client changes, and rewire the internal render order in After Effects.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Overview
- Software versions and exercise files
- Building an extra-wide composition
- Nesting and animating a precomp
- Editing the precomp
- Using common elements
- Creating and animating a map composition
- Accommodating changes efficiently
- Precomposing to group layers
- Precomps and effects
- What could go wrong?
- Precomposing with Leave All attributes
- More on precomps and effects
- Replace with precomp
- Understanding the render order
- Solving problems by using a second composition
- Using precomposing to rewire the render order
- Exploriong continuous rasterization
- Using the Transform effect
- Exploring Collapse transformations
- Working with compond effects
- Quizzler challenges
- Quizzler solution 1: Alien Puzzle
- Quizzler solution 2: Picture in Picture
- Finishing the Muybridge
- Navigating composition hierarchies
- Edit this, look at that
- Preserve frame rate
Taught by
Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer