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Composition won’t show
I have 2 comps. 1 main comp “gabba gabba” and a second comp “logo”.
The “gabba” comp goes for 27 seconds where a camera is animated and so on.
In the “logo” comp, I have the more or less the same. A camera animated above some layers.I put the “logo” comp on top of the layers in the main “gabba” comp, and it begins after 27 secs on the timeline. I preview and the first 27 secs are fine, but after 27 secs the “logo” comp doesn’t show. And this what I don’t understand…
I attached 2 photos showing my whole setup in AE, and also one that shows the frames I see, where I would like to see the graphics from the “logo” comp.
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try extending your camera in your gabba gabba comp and making sure that the logo comp is in the correct 3d position so the camera can see it.
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Thanks for answering!
But there is a camera in the “logo”-comp. That is why I end the camera in the gabba comp to let the other camera “take over”. And If I am in the logo comp, everything looks fine (like you could see in the screen shot i attached in the first post. -
What happens if you extend the camera layer underneath the logo layer?
What happens if the “collapse transformations” switch is turned off for the logo layer?
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Looking at the times in the comps — haven’t all the layers in logo already ended by the time the comp layer starts in the gabba gabba comp?
Put another way, don’t you want the logo comp’s first frame to start at 27 seconds inside the gabba gabba comp?
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Dave: I have one camera in the main comp. A 2 Node 50. I had two before, but removed it, so there is just one. See new screen shot.
In the “logo” comp I have a 2 Node 50 LHH. Is it not possible to have a different camera in the “sub-comp” (logo) that becomes the active camera when that comp starts playing?Michael: Tried to switch of the “collapse transformation” for the logo-comp layer. No luck.
Walter: Yes I want the first frame of the logo-comp to start at 27 seconds. I went to the comp-settings in logo-comp and set it to start at 27 seconds. Still won’t work unfortunately…
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Walter! You were right. I had to go into the logo comp and move everything to 27 secs. So in other words, it didn’t work to set the start timecode to 27 secs in the comp settings. Isn’t that usually a way to do it?? Thought you should be able to set the animation to the first frame and put in the time in the time code (comp settings) and then it would start from there in the main comp?
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Thank you so much for your help! All of you.
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What Dave said.
For a little background, there is not just one “clock” in an Ae project; each comp has its own independent timeline. You can use a comp in another comp in Ae just like using a clip in an NLE; you can freely slide them in time.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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