• Adobe After Effects

  How to make multiple comps mimic a template comp? (as if every property were parented to the template)

  Posted by Ted Deltufo on August 22, 2020 at 6:44 pm

  Hi, I’m not sure the best way to explain this. I’m making a slideshow with 64 slides, and each one is to look exactly the same (design-wise), just with different info. Each slide shows a person’s name, birthday, death date, and a photo of them. I’ve figured out a way to auto-populate those fields (with $.eval and an external text file). But I know once I send the video to the client, they will have some notes on layout.

  So is there a way to create a “parent comp” of some kind, so that I can alter it, and those alterations will also happen in every “child comp”?

  For example: if I put the Name above the Photo, but the client says they want the Name to the left of the Photo… then I would just make that change in the Master/Template/Parent comp, and the other 64 comps will follow suit. Is that possible?

  I have yet to build the project, I’m trying to figure out how to do this first. Thanks ahead of time for any advice!

  Graham Quince replied 5 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Graham Quince

  August 23, 2020 at 1:24 pm

  Check out Essential Graphics – it allows you to specify parts of a precomp which can be edited from a main comp, so that you can use the precomp multiple times.

  http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – After Effects Tutorials

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