From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title

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Assembling the main comp

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From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 16 Creating a Medical Opening Title

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Assembling the main comp

Now that I've created these four Extra Video Pre-comps with framed pieces of video already in them, I'll just swap them in for our placeholders in our Final Composition. I'm going to scan somewhere here in time where I can see all my placeholders, twirl up the camera just to save some space on the timeline. Select my Extra 1 placeholder, select Extra Video 1 pre-comp in the project panel and just like replacing footage, I am going to hold Cmd+Opt+/ on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+/ on Windows to replace that placeholder with my composition. Now you're seeing the method to my madness, why I build things this way?. Do the same thing for Extra 2, same thing for Extra 3 and same thing for Extra 4. And now I've swapped in all these pre-comps that I've built for my placeholder solids. As I scan through this to see how it looks, I have to admit I'm not as thrilled with that extra video frame as I was originally. I'm going to turn off my Title and Action Safe just to not obscure my view here. Yeah, I wish…

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