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Problem With Nesting
By default, After Effects switches the composition navigator (viewer) as you switch the composition frame down below.
In some cases, I want to work in the child comp frame, but view the parent comp. I do that to check the changes as I’m doing them.
There is a way of course, to lock the desired comp viewer. But this trick has its troubles: you can’t interact with the comp viewer, you can only change the values in the comp frame. Also, the changes are not live updated.
Any other way guys?
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See Viewers [link] on the online help. There’s a section there that describes ETLAT (edit this, look at that), which is exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
Basically, you want to open a second Viewer window and lock it to your “look-at” comp. See the image below for where to click to make a new comp viewer, then click the Toggle Lock button (
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Is it interactive + live updated?
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[Ala Mctoom] “Is it interactive + live updated?”
Off the top of my head, I don’t think so. Only the active comp is, and there’s no way I know of to change that.
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AE developers should find a solution for that, it’ll make life much easier. In general, AE still needs improvements on the interface usability.
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Dear Dave, I think this option is irrelevant to the problem.
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[Ala Mctoom] “AE developers should find a solution for that, it’ll make life much easier. In general, AE still needs improvements on the interface usability.”
Agreed, it would be a nice feature!
If it’s important to you, you might let the AE development team know about it — they do actually read all the bug reports and feature requests:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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I’ll work on that. Thank you a lot Mr. Soyka for the help!
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Happy to help — and I hope your project goes well!
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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