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  • Pre-Comps and Cameras

    Posted by Durwood Hibbard on February 15, 2011 at 1:56 am

    Hello there,
    I am working on a Highlights video for a youth basketball league. I have a Basketball court and some banners that I have made along with 3 big screens that will be showing the footage. I want to move around the court and from one screen to another. Right now will the room only built the comp time line isn’t to bad to follow. However when I start bringing in my footage to place in the screens I am afraid it will get a little messy. I attempted to pre-comp the court and banners in one comp and then the screens and footage into another comp. My Problem I am having is controlling both comps with a camera when I put them into a main comp. is it possible to control both comps with one camera? or do I just need to make one big comp with many layers?

    Durwood Hibbard replied 15 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Michael Szalapski

    February 15, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    I have some comps where I have hundreds of layers. Sometimes the shy switch can be used to help clean things up.
    If you’d rather have a layer in one comp control a camera in another comp, you could link them with expressions.

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  • Durwood Hibbard

    February 15, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    THAT’S IT DAVE….The Continuously Rasterize/Collapse Transformations switch was unavailable in the comps themselves. However when I clicked it on the pre-comps it set everything back to how it should be or how it should look. I moved the camera around and it worked great. Thank You

    Also thanks You to Michael, I seem to forget about the shy switch. I will be using that as the project continues.

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