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expressions thru different comps
I am put together a effect that has to built on various comps and linked to a final comp. My problem is that i can build with out expressions and it will work fine but if i need to repostition it, I have to go into ever comp and adjust them each. how can add an expression to link them all up so if i repostition the master the slave will follow.
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I don’t quite get what you are trying to tell us… Expressions use absolute name string based references, there is no way around that. AE 7 will keep track of those and rename references where appropriate (though it sometimes does not work as expected). Your only other simple option is to use references based on layers’ and effects’ indices e.g. comp(“Main”).layer(1).effect(1)(“Slider”) as opposed to comp(“Main”).layer(“X”).effect(“Effect”)(“Slider”). If you are really daring in nature, you can build your setups based on filtering name strings, but the overhead is substantial and not really worth the effort. Apart from all said above, you should simply re-think your workflows. Make use of the “Copy Expression only” function and regualrly save your expressions into animation presets so you can easily re-apply them to layers en masse when required.
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