From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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Precomps and effects - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
Precomps and effects
Trish Meyer: In this movie, let's finish off our animation by adding the distortion effects such as Warp. Remember in the previous movie, we took our three layers and pre-composed them into the apple group pre-comp. I can still edit or animate any of these layers individually if I need to, but I can also apply effects to the group, which is what we were looking for. Now it's worth pointing out that when I pre-composed and I created this pre-comp, how did it know what size to make the pre-comp? If I open Composition Settings, you'll see it has all the specifications of the DV comp. 29.97 frame rate, it's five seconds in duration, and it has a blue background. All of these specifications came from the main comp. If we check its specifications, it has exactly the same Composition Settings. And the reason it needs to do that is because some of the attributes that you pre-composed such as the layer's position are based on the width and height of the comp. And the reason the duration has to…
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