• Adobe After Effects

  Iterating a composition

  Posted by Nikolya Gousteau on May 27, 2012 at 7:55 am

  Hi all,

  It is known that one cannot nest a composition into itself. But I would like to do a slightly different thing.

  I have a composition, and I would like to add a “previous frame of the composition” to itself as a layer.

  Is this possible?

  You can think of this also the following way. First of all, we arrange each frame of the comp as a still layer. (Layer “Frame N” should be on top of layer “Frame N-1”.) And then, as time goes by, we subsequently turn each of these layers on. Maybe this can be done using expressions, but I suppose there might be even better way…

  Thank you in advance

  Nikolya Gousteau replied 13 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Erik Waluska

  May 28, 2012 at 4:30 pm

  I’m not sure exactly what you’re trying to accomplish but could you use the Echo effect on an adjustment layer?
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  Nikolya Gousteau

  May 29, 2012 at 12:44 pm

  Thank you a lot, Erik! Echo does almost exactly what I wanted!

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