My particular situation involves applying the Prolost Burns preset for a video slideshow, and every so often I’ll get a picture that needs to be rotated. When I rotate the layer within the main comp, it messes up my effect, causing the scale amounts and center point within the effect not to respond correctly. I’ve found the easiest way to counter this is to precompose the picture, leaving the Burns effect in the layer in the main comp. I’d like to just quickly take the width and height in this new precomp and swap them while rotating the picture in the precomp. I know I’d essentially just be skipping a couple steps, but over time, making these precomps really adds up.
3 steps as opposed to 10, basically.