From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
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Quizzler solution 2: Picture in Picture - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing
Quizzler solution 2: Picture in Picture
Chris Meyer: Your second Quizzler challenge was how to create a nice picture-in-picture hierarchy with the contents of your inset precomp. We may have a lot of things going on, for example, we have effects applied, we have an animation path going on. Maybe we need to center a talking head inside the picture in picture window. What is a nice simple hierarchy to create this? Well, there is more than one solution. But I think the solution we came up with might be something you hadn't thought of. Remember compositions do not need to be the size of your footage. They do not need to be the size of your final render. They only need to be the size of the element that you need to work with. So in this case, we created a small 200x200 pixel comp, the size of our final inset into our file composition, and used that to go ahead and crop it down whatever we put inside this composition. Now it's very simple for us to apply effects and animate effects, to go ahead and animate the position of this…
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