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Create reusable components

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Create reusable components

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- [Voiceover] Let's create some reusable components from our artwork layers. The only thing that's changed since we were last in After Effects on this file is I've just renamed dashboard2 to be in line with dashboard1. So I just removed the underscore start. And let's focus on our composition dashboard01 and we are going to create these reusable components by pre-composing the layers. When you pre-compose a layer it puts it in a new composition and that will replace the layer in the original composition. So this new nested composition becomes the source for a single layer in the original comp. And as the composition appears in the project panel also, then that's available for rendering or use in any other composition. So this allows us to group layers which we can instance later in other comps. So I'm going to select, to begin with, the Title Today. And I'm going to use the shortcut command + shift + c and that will bring up the pre-composed dialogue. We can rename our new…

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