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Navigating your photo organization

Navigating your photo organization - After Effects Tutorial

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Navigating your photo organization

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- While the timeline is ultimately the most useful way to navigate through things, you can choose to view how the assets are related to each other by looking at a flowchart. In the timeline, there is a small button here that gives you the composition flowchart. Choosing this will start to show you how things are connected. So, for example, this composition doesn't have any other dependencies currently, but, that can change. For example, let's say we start to nest some elements. Let's unfilter this here, and take the background and the solid here and pre-compose, putting them inside a nest. I'll call that "background." Now, if we take a look at the composition mini flowchart, you'll see that it shows us the primary and the sub-comp. If I click on that I can actually jump right to that. This makes it easy if you start to have lots of elements to quickly move between. Let's go ahead and nest some text here as well. And you'll notice that when we click I see both branches. This can be…

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