• Adobe After Effects

  How can I re-use an animating in a similar way to a Photoshop Smart Layer?

  Posted by Robert Maric on March 30, 2017 at 1:23 am

  Hi there,

  If I create a small animation, let’s say the letter A spinning inside a vector circle, is there a way to wrap that up as a single object I can multiply on the stage as many times as I want (have 10 of them in a grid)? I know I could precompose but then I would lose the ability to scale or 3d rotate the animation from the parent comp.

  I would definitely want to be able to edit the animation just once and have that change reflected in every instance of it

  Cheers

  Kevin Camp replied 9 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

• 

  Kevin Camp

  March 30, 2017 at 7:00 pm

  [Robert Maric] “I know I could precompose but then I would lose the ability to scale or 3d rotate the animation from the parent comp.”

  if you click the ‘continuously rasterize/collapse transformations’ switch for that pre-comp layer, you should be able to scale or 3d rotate the pre-comp within the main comp. it’s the switch that looks like a little sun or spikes ball in the timeline (when switches are visible).

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
  KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up