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  • precompose question

    Posted by Accountclosed on June 5, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Hello All,

    I’m having some precompose difficulities. here are the steps i’m following –

    1. precompose a 2 second clip from within a comp (although the actual clip is 10 seconds, only 2 of those seconds are in the comp.

    2. alt click on the precomp

    3. look at the precomp to see the precomp length is 10 seconds long and the full 10 second clip is in the precomp – not the trimmed version of the 2 seconds that was in the first comp

    so this is making life a bit tedious since i dont need to modify the entire clip, just the 2 seconds that was in the first comp.

    anyone have any advice?

    Accountclosed replied 17 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Jeremy Fabiano

    June 5, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Go to the end of the 2 second bit…

    go into the precomp

    hold shift and drag your work area’s right slider to the left until it “snaps” to the current time indicator

    you can leave it like that and edit, or just trim comp to work area…

    I hope I understood the question.. if so, there’s a working answer for ya 🙂

    G’luck

    -Jeremy

  • Accountclosed

    June 5, 2008 at 3:57 pm

    both those suggestions work well. thanks!

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