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  • trouble getting values from another composition

    Posted by Neil Stubbings on August 2, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    hi

    i created a composition with a bird character and i want to control the angle of the bird’s head from within the main composition.
    so I pulled the bird composition into the main composition and added an angle expression control effect and pickwhipped the head rotationin the bird comp to the angle control in the main comp.

    Now this works fine as long as i do not add any keyframes. when i change the value of the angle control the heads rotation adjusts. but as soon as i add a keyframe, it it does not work anymore.

    any ideas

    this expression is on the birds head in the "bird_comp"

    comp("Animatic_01").layer("bird_comp").effect("Head")("Angle")

    the angle controler is on the "bird_comp" in the composition "Animatic_01"

    Dan Ebberts
    replied 15 years, 9 months ago
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  • Dan Ebberts

    August 2, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    Hmmm… I’m not sure what the problem could be. It works fine for me with keyframes.

    Dan

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