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  • question about multiple comps

    Posted by Matthewgraphic on May 6, 2007 at 4:02 am

    is there a way to have a comp keep its transparancy? like if multiple comps were placed together on one main comp? or is there a way to precompse a group of things and keep all their original data?

    Matthewgraphic replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Darby Edelen

    May 6, 2007 at 4:50 am

    [matthewgraphic] “is there a way to have a comp keep its transparancy?”

    It took me a second to understand what you were asking here, as any comp will maintain transparency if it’s placed in another comp, but I think you’re asking about blending modes. In order to maintain blending modes from a pre-comp into the final comp you just need to enable the Collapse Transformations/Continously Rasterize switch on the pre-comp. It’s between the Shy switch and the Layer Quality switch and looks like a sun.

    [matthewgraphic] “is there a way to precompse a group of things and keep all their original data?”

    If you have some layers in a composition that you want to pre-compose you can do that by selecting them and pressing cmd-shift-c (ctrl-shift-c on PC). If that isn’t what you’re asking then I may need more specifics on what you’re trying to accomplish =/

    Good luck!

  • Matthewgraphic

    May 7, 2007 at 5:18 am

    thank you so much. i have been trying to figure that out for so long

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