viewing multiple compositions at once???

[Terry Coolidge]

I figured it out. Not sure I could tell anyone how I did it, but I managed it some how. I locked a composition in the viewer, then opened another one, and then started dragging tabs. Eventually it worked.

Perhaps someone would still like to offer an explanation so that I might then feel like I (and others) could repeat the feat.

😉

[Todd Kopriva]

The “Work with viewers” section of After Effects Help describes this.

I found this by searching for ‘multiple compositions’ in After Effects Help on the Web.

If the Help document doesn’t contain the information that you need, or if you’d like to add a tip of your own, leave a comment using the link at the bottom of any Help page.

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[Johan Hoogendoorn]

maybe you do this already, but of course you can also open 2 timeslines at once.. just also drag the 2nd one on it’s tab to the bottom of the screen

it took me a while to figure this out for some reason, once you master is it’s a great way of working

2 viewers
2 timelines

[Protohobo]

ok, I have 2 viewers and 2 timelines, but is there a way to lock one timeline to one viewer and the other timeline to the other view? currently it seems like one timeline updates both viewers while the other timeline only updates one view.

thanks

[Colby Fulton]

You select “New Comp Viewer” from the drop down menu in the comp name. There’s a little arrow there. I’ve been using AFX for 20 years and always wanted to do this. So awesome!

[Kendall Shaw]

I don’t know if anyone will ever see this post because replying doesn’t bump the thread, it appears.

Ah! If I view by topic, updated by date, posts appear sorted by date, even if they are replies to threads that are old but not dead yet. I imagine almost noone does that though…

Matching 1 timeline to 1 composition viewers works for me if I use the keystroke mentioned in help

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/workspaces-panels-viewers.html

To lock the current viewer, split the current frame, and create a new viewer of the same type in the new frame, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+N (Mac OS).

Using the lock icon doesn’t prevent the viewer from changing, for me.

Uggh. It just opened footage in the locked viewer.

At least 1 time, it appears to work, enough for me to setup to use 2 timelines and compare videos.

[Treka Hamada]

Thank you soooooo much