From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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More on precomps and effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
More on precomps and effects
- [Instructor] When you create a track matte composite in a pre-comp, you have a lot more flexibility when applying effects. For example, I can apply effects to the matte and fill separately in the pre-comp, and I could also apply effects in the main comp after the track matte has been composited. That's extremely useful for effects like drop shadows as well as any of the Displacement effects like our Turbulent Displace. I don't have to do anything fancy to distort the track matte composite. Or, of course, I could also apply it only to the wire frame apple, or only to the fill. I have all that flexibility. With some effects, it may not matter where you apply the effect. Let's just say I want to change the color of the fill movie. If I'm in the pre-comp, and I want to change the color, I could apply an effect to the fill, but I think there's a slight advantage to applying it in the next level up in my main comp. That's because I like to keep as many attributes as possible at the top…
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