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  Hide selected layers of subcomps

  Posted by Dan Turner on January 9, 2017 at 8:31 pm

  Hi all, I have an issue I’d like to find a smart way to get around.

  I have a bunch of comps comprising of 3 layers of elements.
  These are embedded and time remapped in a master comp, but I’d like to have 3 instances of the embedded comp, each showing only a particular layer number (for placing behind an object).

  So currently I have:

  Master Comp:
  – Embed Comp (Time Remap applied)
  — Element Comp A
  — Layer 1
  — Layer 2
  — Layer 3
  — Element Comp B
  — Layer 1
  — Layer 2
  — Layer 3
  etc (apologies not sure how to outline comp stacking)

  And I would like:

  Master Comp:
  – Embed Comp 1 (Time Remap applied)
  — Element Comp A
  — Layer 1
  — Element Comp B
  — Layer 1
  – Embed Comp 1 (Time Remap applied) (Duplicated from above)
  — Element Comp A
  — Layer 2
  — Element Comp B
  — Layer 2

  If that makes sense – so the embedded comps only show a selected layer number from the preComp.

  I can duplicate all of the Element Comps with only 1 layer each, but it’s a huge amount of manual work, so hoping there’s an elegant fix for this.

  Many thanks!
  Dan

  Dan Turner replied 9 years, 4 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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