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After Effects layers questions
Hi,
Please excuse my stupidity or incorrect terminolgy here has i’m only profficient at photoshop after effects is new to me.
Basically is it possible to ‘merge layers’ as one would in photoshop. I’ve got lots of little clips in my time line and want to add some effects to all of them on top of the effects that already exist on the individual clips. In photoshop obviously i’ve just highlight the layers in question then click ‘merge’ and it would lock everything i’d done to all highlighted layers into one image which I could then fiddle around with. Is it possible to do the same thing in after effects with footage?
Thanks for you help.
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1 Reply
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If I understand correctly what you want, you should consider precomposing the layers together into a precomposition. This would create a single precomposition layer that contains all of the individual layers; then you can apply effects (or whatever) to the precomposition layer.
For information on precomposing, see the “About nesting and precomposing” and “Precompose layers” sections of After Effects Help.
If the Help document doesn’t contain the information that you need, or if you’d like to add a tip of your own, leave a comment using the link at the bottom of any Help page.
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