From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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Precomposing with Leave All attributes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
Precomposing with Leave All attributes
Trish Meyer: In the last movie, I took a boring gray apple and I used it as a matte and filled it with a colorful movie. Although I did end up with the look that I wanted, in this movie I'd like to recommend a different workflow. As a general rule, I do want to create a pre-comp with a track matte and the fill all composited together. That gives me the utmost flexibility so I can apply effects or keyframes to the matte and the fills separately and in the main comp I can apply keyframes and effects after the track matte has been composited. So if you are following along, I hope you didn't save the project, because we're going to revert back to the original project. And we are going to build it in a different way and that should bring me back to exactly where I started with the Red Apple Starter comp and my boring gray apple. So I'm working away and I have this great idea that I could make this apple more interesting by adding a fill movie and let's just look at a couple of things here.…
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