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Using common elements

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Using common elements

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- [Instructor] If you have access to the exercise files that came with this project, open up the comp, AEA Nesting 2 dash common. If instead you are working out of our book, After Effects Apprentice Second Edition, we are in lesson six. Open up the comp, oh six C dash Nesting 2 dot AEP. Select this, click open, and like with the previous chapter, we're going to open up the finished movie folder, and watch a movie of the result we are trying to obtain. Here you see we have a simple move on a map that is larger in our original composition, and three plates with different cities on them are popping up over time. Notice that those backing plates are identical for each of the cities. Whenever you have a common design element that you will be using repeatedly inside a project, it's a great idea if you can create just one of them, and then point back to that one original, rather than re-create it from scratch every single time you need another one. That way, if you need to make a change to…

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