From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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Navigating composition hierarchies - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
Navigating composition hierarchies
- [Instructor] Once you've built a complex hierarchy of compositions, the challenge of course is how do you navigate between those comps, and how do you see how they're interconnected? If you already know what comps are connected together, of course you can just click on their tabs along the top of the timeline panel to quickly jump between them. You can also use the pop-up at the top of the composition panel to also jump quickly to individual comps. However, if you haven't opened up a project in a while or you've been handed a project from somebody else, or it's just very late at night, you might forget how layers are interconnected. Throughout this lesson, you probably have seen us use the Composition Mini-Flowchart. If we have either the composition or timeline panels open, and just briefly tap the Shift key, this little flowchart will pop up right where our cursor is. It will start with a composition we currently have open, Locations Main, and shows what flows into and out of this…
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