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Comp Question
I created an animation for a logo a few weeks back and on friday my client asked me to create a new series of items for a different video. I wanted to add the logo animation to the end of this new series. Can I pull that older comp into the newer one? I saved it as a quick time and imported it that way, but lost some quality.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks!
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5 Replies
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[Dave LaRonde] “First, I’d duplicate the old project, delete anything in it I didn’t need, save it”
There’s a handy feature under the File menu in After Effects called ‘Reduce Project.’ If you select a composition (or compositions) and use ‘Reduce Project’ everything in the project that isn’t referenced by that composition (or compositions) will be deleted. Obviously this should be used sparingly, and preferably on a copy of the project in almost every case, but it’s a good way to eliminate everything you don’t need for that one composition from the project.
However, if you pre-rendered anything for the composition it will only save the footage item that is being used and not the source comp for the pre-render. Just something to take note of.
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
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If there are no changes to the logo animation, why not just render to uncompressed QT or TGA sequence and use that as the source footage in your new series?
Todd Morgan
Creative Director
morgancreative
http://www.morgancreative.ca -
Thanks. I used a nested comp and it worked perfectly.
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I hear Targa’s going the way of the Edsel, being limited to 8 bits per channel.
Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA -
[Joey Foreman] “I hear Targa’s going the way of the Edsel, being limited to 8 bits per channel.”
As far as I know they also don’t support embedded color profiles, which I’d like to think is becoming more of a big deal now thanks to AE CS3 (;
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA
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