how to: view comp and precomp side by side

[John Hammond]

hi, not got AE on this PC right now to check this, but I think it’s some combination of the below:

open both comps.

In the composition window of one comp, at the top there is a little drop down list. Click it and click ‘new comp viewer’.

Then select your other comp.

Then, from the same menu, choose locked.

Now you have 2 comp viewers. Now just rearrange them side by side in the usual manner.

Done!

I remember this being fiddly until you figure out how its done, hopefully I explained it right, but it does work.

John

[Jason W. miltt]

perfect, thanks.

Good memory btw. 🙂

[Anita Sancha]

I was delighted when this was posted, but…..

I cant get this to work… is it not available on AE CS3?

Do you mean the drop down twirly triangle at the top right of each actual composition panel? Because I cant find “new comp viewer” in this menu.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Todd Kopriva]

One of my favorite shortcuts:

To lock the current viewer, split the current frame, and create a new viewer of the same type in the new frame, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+N (Mac OS).

This tidbit and more are in the “Viewers” section of After Effects Help.

There were a lot of little improvements in ETLAT (edit-this-look-at-that) functionality in After Effects CS4.

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[Anita Sancha]

Thanks Todd… got that to work.. brilliant.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

[Ellen Yarbrough]

Thank you so much. I’ve been trying to figure out how to see 2 comps at once since I upgraded to CS3.Bless you!

Ellen

[Chris Vile]

Thank You Sir!
Helped me alot…
Cheers