Lynda.com – After Effects Apprentice 08 Nesting and Precomposing [1 DVD (ISO)]

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After Effects Apprentice 08: Nesting and Precomposing with Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer

Let Chris and Trish Meyer share with you two of the core secrets required to become an efficient After Effects user: understanding the render order (the internal order of operations After Effects uses when calculating masks, effects, transformation, track mattes, and layer styles) and the use of multiple compositions where a composition may be nested into one or more other comps. This makes it easier to group layers, efficiently re-use a common element to quickly accommodate client changes, pan around large composites of multiple layers, and solve render order issues.

Topics include:
Grouping layers by nesting and pre-composing
Identifying and solving render order issues
Navigating composition hierarchies
Editing a precomp while viewing the result in another composition
Preserving the frame rate of a nested composition

authors Chris Meyer and Trish Meyer
subject Video, Motion Graphics
softwareAfter Effects CS4, CS5, CS5.5
level Intermediate
duration 2h 5m
released Jun 29, 2011

Introduction 1m 40s
Overview 1m 40s

1. Nesting a Group of Layers 13m 18s
Building an extra-wide composition 5m 41s
Nesting and animating a precomp 3m 33s
Editing the precomp 4m 4s

2. Nesting a Common Source 15m 47s
Using common elements 5m 30s
Creating and animating a map composition 5m 10s
Accommodating changes efficiently 5m 7s

3. Precomposing a Group 16m 8s
Precomposing to group layers 9m 42s
Precomps and effects 6m 26s

4. Precomposing a Single Layer 19m 59s
What could go wrong? 10m 22s
Precomposing with Leave All Attributes In 6m 54s
More on precomps and effects 2m 43s

5. Render Order Issues 29m 55s
Understanding the render order 5m 25s
Solving problems by using a second composition 7m 33s
Using precomps to rewire the render order 8m 53s
Render order exceptions 8m 4s

6. Quizzlers 8m 29s
Quizzler challenges 3m 15s
Quizzler solution 1: Alien puzzle 3m 14s
Quizzler solution 2: Picture in picture 2m 0s

7. Idea Corner 8m 39s
Finishing the Muybridge promo 8m 39s

8. Sidebars 11m 28s
Navigating composition hierarchies 4m 29s
Edit this, look at that 3m 46s
Preserving frame rate 3m 13s
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