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Referencing Parent Composition Properties
I hope this makes sense:
I have a composition with audio keyframes, so things will animate to the beat of the music I have. I have a nested composition in this comp. I want to connect the scale of something inside of my nested comp to the audio keyframes.
When I pick-whip something inside the comp with the audio keyframes, I get this little expression:
temp = thisComp.layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);
[temp, temp]So I assume I need to change “thisComp” to … something. I tried root, rootComp, parent, parentComp, _root, _parent, everything I can think of.
I can’t find any help online, because looking for AE with “referencing” brings up book reviews and parent finds parenting stuff.
So please, please, please! if you can help me, I would be in your debt.
Thanks!
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4 Replies
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You have to use the actual name of the parent comp.
Dan
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if your parent comp was named “audio_comp” your new code would be:
temp = comp(“audio_comp”).layer(“Audio Amplitude”).effect(“Both Channels”)(“Slider”);
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That solved it perfectly. I suppose if I had paid alittle more attention to it I could have seen that. Thank you so very much.
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nah, the slightest bit of syntax can derail the whole thing.
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