• Adobe After Effects

  Camera movement in one comp. not working in MAIN comp.

  Posted by Kristian B. nielsen on June 6, 2009 at 9:18 pm

  Hi,
  I am having a bit of a problem.

  Im using a MAIN composition which is controlled with a double null object camera solution.

  Im dragging a new composition, with the same double null object camera solution into the MAIN, but the camera movement from the new composition isn’t working in the MAIN.
  Any solutions anyone?

  Friendly Regards,
  Kristian Bønnelykke Nielsen

  Friendly Regards,
  Kristian Bønnelykke Nielsen

  Michael Szalapski replied 17 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Michael Szalapski

  June 7, 2009 at 12:36 am

  After Effects treats a composition like it’s a piece of footage. Whatever camera and layers you have in your main comp will not be affected by anything in your precomp. It’s as if the precomp is just some .mov or .avi file you’ve dropped on the timeline.

  The change happens when you push the “collapse transformations” button. Then any 3d layers you have in your precomp become 3d in the main comp. But, if I’m not mistaken, the camera in the precomp will be overridden by the camera in the main comp.

  If you want to have the same movement in the main comp that you had achieved in the precomp you could just copy and paste (or maybe cut and paste) the camera from the precomp into the main one and retie the expressions to their respective nulls..

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