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Organize a VFX comp down in number of layers

Organize a VFX comp down in number of layers - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Compositing: 2 Matching Foreground to Background

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Organize a VFX comp down in number of layers

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Ask anyone with experience in the app what they like least about After Effects. And the result will be nearly unanimous. Pre-comping. Now, motion graphics artists have more justification to create dozens or even hundreds of layers. But for visual effects, it's usually a mistake if your comp, has more than, about a dozen layers. In this lesson I'm going to show you really briefly, the benefits of keeping things more tidy and organized. So, here is a comp that is nearly complete. And you can see it has about 14 layers. Not too bad. Course I can't see them all, without either reducing my view up here, or bringing this up full screen. I'll do that. And my layers are even very nicely labeled, so I didn't stick with the source names. I went in and hit Return and gave them individual names. And I toggle between them of course, using this layer name source name toggle. That's pretty good. The thing is though, this isn't easy to scan. I can't really tell much about how this is organized. Even…

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