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Can you Pre-Compose but maintin layer length?
I have something that I’m color correcting in After Effects, and each cut of the edit is on it’s own layer, so I have a ton of little layers, each one needing it’s own color correction. I was wondering, is there a way that I can precompose a layer without the precomposed layer suddenly becoming as long as the entire composition. I would like the precomposed layer to stay the exact same length as the layer. I want to do this because I want to be able to stack up a bunch of effects, adjustment layers, etc….for each layer, like it’s own little capsule, while keeping my main composition, my “edit” as clean as possible, just with a bunch of trimmed precomps in it. Is there any way to do this without having to manually trim a precomp the second it is created?
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Try this handy script by Chris Zwar.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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That’s absolutely what I need! Thank you so much!!
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While I’m at it, I’ve got another Timeline management question that might involved scripting… When I import a timeline in from Premiere Pro, the layers are just stacked with no regard to where they actually occur in time, so I just have chunks of layers everywhere. It would be great if there was some kind of way, a script or something, that would auto-arrange all my layers so that they occurred one after another in time, so that each layer chunk comes one after another. Any ideas?
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i was going to suggest the sequence layers tool from the keyframe assistant, but realized your layers probably aren’t even coming into AE stacked top to bottom in the order they occur in time, are they…
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No they aren’t. That’s all I’m looking for, is to arrange the stack order of the layers to be in the same order as the layers in time. The sequence layers command moves my layers in time.
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After Effects CC (12.1) adds an option in the Precompose dialog box for this, to trim the precomposition duration to the duration of selected layers.
See this page for details:
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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Today, we released the After Effects CC (12.1) update.
Try the new option for setting a precomposition to the length of the selected layers in this version.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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