[Charl Cater]

No worries Walter, the more the merrier 🙂

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[Charl Cater]

Hey Matt,

sounds like you might have just changed the view in your composition window. To get back to where you were looking through the camera, look for a dropdown menu at the bottom of the composition preview window (it will read something like ‘left’ or ‘top’ or ‘custom view’) and change it back to ‘Active camera’.

The pink box you see is the AE camera as seen from a static point further away, thus moving the camera’s position won’t have much effect in the preview window as you’re not looking through it, but at it.

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[Charl Cater]

Hey Rich,

In AE this is known as ‘pre-composing’ – Select the layers you want to nest, hit ‘Layer’ in the top menu and select “Pre-compose’ (all the way down, right at the bottom). Or use the shortcut Cmd-Shift-C for mac / Cntrl-Shift-C on PC.

This will move the selected layers to an intermediary comp and leave you with a new layer in it’s place in your current timeline.

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