• Adobe After Effects

  Matching Layer Window to Comp Window

  Posted by Ragno Man on May 10, 2007 at 8:17 pm

  Hello,

  Maybe complex question below:

  I’m doing character animation in AE 5.5.

  Is it possible to work on a character (moving legs, arm, etc.) in a pre-comped layer window which is “synced” to the main comp window containing the background?

  For example, let’s say the character moves left arm at timeframe 5:15 in the layer window. Can the main comp window move to the same timeframe to match?

  Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance…

  Ragno Man replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Mike Procunier

  May 10, 2007 at 9:31 pm

  I think I understand. Just undock the Pre-comp window and drag it to a new spot on your screen. I don’t have 5.5 to test it on, but i think you just grab the Pre-Comp’s tab in the viewer window and drag it to a new location.
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  Ragno Man

  May 10, 2007 at 10:34 pm

  I apologize for the long-winded 1st question.

  I guess the better way to put it is:

  How can I get two separate comps linked in time so that when I animate the character body in one comp, the other comp (where the character comp is pre-composed) is also updated in the timeline?

  I hope that this makes more sense

  thanks….
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  May 10, 2007 at 11:21 pm

  You’ll need to do two things –
  1) Pre comp the body into a ‘final comp’ – seems like you’ve done this
  2) Goto to Preferences and ensure that Under Preview, “maintain time … of related comps” is switched on.

  HTH
  RoRK
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  Ragno Man

  May 11, 2007 at 1:47 am

  Excellent! That did it, thank you!

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