Lynda.com - After Effects Apprentice 08_ Nesting and Precompos

Let Chris and Trish Meyer share with you two of the core secrets required to become an efficient After Effects user: understanding the render order (the internal order of operations After Effects uses when calculating masks, effects, transformation, track mattes, and layer styles) and the use of multiple compositions where a composition may be nested into one or more other comps. This makes it easier to group layers, efficiently re-use a common element to quickly accommodate client changes, pan around large composites of multiple layers, and solve render order issues.


Introduction 3m 43s
Overview 1m 43s
Using the exercise files 2m 0s
1. Nesting a Group of Layers 13m 18s
Building an extra-wide composition 5m 41s
Nesting and animating a precomp 3m 33s
Editing the precomp 4m 4s
2. Nesting a Common Source 15m 47s
Using common elements 5m 30s
Creating and animating a map composition 5m 10s
Accommodating changes efficiently 5m 7s
3. Precomposing a Group 16m 8s
Precomposing to group layers 9m 42s
Precomps and effects 6m 26s
4. Precomposing a Single Layer 19m 59s
What could go wrong? 10m 22s
Precomposing with Leave All attributes 6m 54s
More on precomps and effects 2m 43s
5. Render Order Issues 23m 2s
Understanding the render order 5m 25s
Solving problems by using a second composition 7m 33s
Using precomposing to rewire the render order 10m 4s
6. Render Order Exceptions 24m 39s
Exploring continuous rasterization 5m 32s
Using the Transform effect 6m 15s
Exploring Collapse Transformations 7m 20s
Working with compound effects 5m 32s
7. Quizzlers 8m 29s
Quizzler challenges 3m 15s
Quizzler solution 1: Alien Puzzle 3m 14s
Quizzler solution 2: Picture in Picture 2m 0s
8. Idea Corner 8m 39s
Finishing the Muybridge promo 8m 39s
9. Sidebars 11m 27s
Navigating composition hierarchies 4m 28s
Edit this, look at that 3m 46s
Preserve frame rate 3m 13s