From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing

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Using precomposing to rewire the render order

Using precomposing to rewire the render order - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 08 Nesting and Precomposing

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Using precomposing to rewire the render order

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- [Instructor] In the previous movie, we fixed the problem with the visual rendering order by using two compositions. We nested one composition into a second, and then we could pick and choose which attributes rendered in which comp. That was a fairly simple example. Now we could fix it with nesting, because our first composition only had one layer in it. But that's not a very real world example. So in this movie, I'd like to show you how to fix a similar problem using precompose instead of nesting. I'm still using the render order project and if you have any comps open, let's close them all up by selecting Close All from the composition panel. The comp I want to open is in the Render Example 2 folder, and it's called Circle. All round preview. So what we have here is the same movie we were using earlier. It's been masked and we have a number of effects applied to it. And there's a title and a background movie. The problem I'm having with this movie is that I've masked it into a…

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