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pre-comp slices character
Morning all,
So, I have this bouncing character which I animated then converted to a pre-comp, I then placed it below the screen to have it gradually bounce into full view. I set the position then moved the timeline to the point where I wanted the character to be in full view, I then tried to place the character in the centre of my screen only all I am getting is the head, it seems that the process is decapitating my character.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong please?
Tks
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[gary Jarvis] “So, I have this bouncing character which I animated then converted to a pre-comp, I then placed it below the screen to have it gradually bounce into full view. I set the position then moved the timeline to the point where I wanted the character to be in full view, I then tried to place the character in the centre of my screen only all I am getting is the head, it seems that the process is decapitating my character.”
Does the character fit in the pre-comp? If he’s cut off on the edges inside the pre-comp, he’ll be cut off on the main comp, because AE normally treats comps like any other raster layer.
You can turn on the Collapse Transformations switch [link] to let elements from the precomp flow into the main comp (getting around the above limitation), or you can adjust the character to fit your pre-comp and leave Collapse Transformations off — it all depends on how you need the precomp to work in your main comp.
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