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Cleaning up your timeline: Precomps in After Effects

Precomps are a way of nesting compositions inside other compositions. This allows you to create more complicated animation relationships and also helps you keep your timelines more organised. Precomping is similar to the way you group layers in Photoshop. In fact, if you import a PSD into After Effects, the file layers are automatic precomposed […]

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Parenting layers to control complex animation sequences

Parenting is the process of linking layers together. Use parenting to assign one layer’s transformations to another.