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  After Effects Scripting/ How to crate a new comp with a comp in it

  Posted by Karen Harutyunyan on August 29, 2016 at 7:15 pm

  Hi!! I’m very new at scripting. Want to know how to write a code that creates a comp with a comp in it !!!

  Karen Harutyunyan replied 9 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  David Conklin

  August 29, 2016 at 7:36 pm

  Here’s the most bare bone code. You could (should), of course, do things like checking that the project exists before making comps inside of it, as well as move a lot of the composition properites (size, name, etc) into variables. Hopefully this is enough to get you going.

  
(function nestedComp(){

  var proj = app.project;

  // make a new comp and save it in a variable.
  // the arguments to 'addComp()' are name, width, height, par, dur, frame rate.
  var preComp = proj.items.addComp("Precomp", 1920, 1080, 1, 1, 30);

  // make the main comp.
  var mainComp = proj.items.addComp("Main Comp", 1920, 1080, 1, 1, 30);

  // add pre-comp to main comp.
  mainComp.layers.add(preComp);

  })();

  David Conklin
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  Karen Harutyunyan

  August 30, 2016 at 12:12 pm

  Thank you very much !!! this was exactly what I was looking for !!!

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