Linking Original Comp and Precompose

[Kevin Camp]

you can create more than one comp viewer window, and you can create one that is locked to the main comp and the other one can change as you select different comps in timeline…

at the top of the preview window is a dropdown menu. select new comp viewer to create a second viewer. set to be your main comp (also from the dropdown menu, if the comp is open in the timeline) and hit the little lock icon, which will lock it to that comp. you’ll now need to drag that comp window (grab the tab) to an are where you can see both comp windows (it might be helpful to close some of the other panels that you won’t be using).

now you should be able to select a nested comp timeline and see it in one viewer window, make modifications and see the change in the main comp viewer window…

is that what you were after?

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Greg Gelber]

I’ll give it a try after lunch but it sounds promising.

Thanks

[Greg Gelber]

You Are Da Man!!!!! Thanks sooo much.

[David Bogie]

Sheesh, Kevin, that was cool. Where do you find this stuff? (You don’t read the manual, do you?)

I knew I could create more viewers but they were always changing. Solved.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Kevin Camp]

i think i’m more like one of those people who can’t help but click things i see on the screen, so i just click things to see what they do, and try to figure out why the hell somebody would use it…

you can do the same thing for the effects panel and timeline window too… very useful for linking things from one layer’s effects to another’s effects or from a layer in one comp to another in a separate comp via the expression pickwhip…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW