Workflow confusion.. markers between comps and precomps?

[John Cuevas]

Go to Edit > Preferences and check “Synchronize Time of all Related Items”.

Now in your master comp if you double click precomp 4 at 55 secs, it will open up that precomp at what would be 55 seconds of your master comp.(hope that makes sense).

So you could copy and paste the audio from the master into the precomps and if you don’t move the CTI around, it will be synced.

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[Angie Taylor]

Hi there,

If you add Comp markers, as opposed to Layer Markers, they will show up when the comp is nested within a new comp as layer markers.

To do this, in your nested comps add Comp Markers by hitting Shift-1, Shift-2, Shift-3 etc, double-click to rename if necessary.

Then, when you nest this into a new comp, the markers will appear as layer markers in exactly the same places.

Sadly this needs to be done before nesting as adding subsequent markers in the pre comp will not update in the main one.

Hope this is some help.

cheers,

Angie

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[John Cuevas]

[Angie Taylor] “Sadly this needs to be done before nesting as adding subsequent markers in the pre comp will not update in the main one.”

Just recently discovered that little gotcha a few months ago when I attempting to do what Paul is trying to do…sync after things are started.

After Effects…live and learn the hard way! 🙂

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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[Paul Boone]

Awesome, this sounds like exactly what I was looking for. I’ll have to play around with it a bit before I really understand the relationship between them, but this is great.

Thanks

[Angie Taylor]

[Johnny Cuevas] Just recently discovered that little gotcha a few months ago when I attempting to do what Paul is trying to do…sync after things are started.
After Effects…live and learn the hard way! 🙂

Yup, it’s a constant and sometimes frustrating learning curve! I come across little gotchas and niggles in AE virtually every day – keeps me interested though – with it’s little quirky ways! 🙂

cheers,

Angie

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[Jaqai Mickelsen]

I realize this string has been long left for dead, but I’ve just made the same discovery about the markers not showing up in parent comps. Here in AE CC 2015.3. Interesting that this lil’ bug was never circled around for.

[Roei Tzoref]

[Jaqai Mickelsen] ” but I’ve just made the same discovery about the markers not showing up in parent comps. “

actually you can update markers by right clicking on one of the layer markers and choosing “update markers from source”. it will then update the precomps’ layer makers to the inside Composition markers. you can do this after the fact and as many times as you want. if you didn’t have any layer markers you can do this by adding just one dummy marker to the layer and using this feature successfully.

Roei Tzoref
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[Jaqai Mickelsen]

Hmmm. I appreciate the response (resurrecting a 2012 string! What fun!) but that option is grayed out for me. In the example here, you can see that I have a pre-comp that’s living in two different parent-comps. I want the marker to show up in the parent comp, even though I’ve added the marker after the comp had already been placed in the parent.

For 04_mainCompPT4_v1, I just dragged a new instance of it from the project pane, aligned it to the previous version of itself in the parent comp timeline, deleted the previous version, and the marker followed the new instance. However, I learned in 00_previewComp that while you can alt-drag the pre-comp into the timeline over itself, it doesn’t update to include the marker.

In short (too late), you have to re-add the child comp from the project pane “from scratch” into the parent for the marker to be visible. It’s not a huge deal, it just means that if you have any expressions or keyframes in the pre-comp you want the markers to show up on, you need to copy paste all to the new instance that includes the markers.

[Roei Tzoref]

I am not following exactly what are you trying to do. if you want the precomp’s inside Comp markers to appear on the outside as layer markers then all you have to do is add one dummy marker and then right click on it, and you will be able to update ALL of the inside’s comps markers as outside layer markers. is this what you are trying to do?

Roei Tzoref
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[Jaqai Mickelsen]

I *think* you’re describing what I was looking to accomplish, but that is never an option for me. I’ve added a dummy marker both to the parent comp and the child comp and both context menus have that option as grayed out.