Comp Question
by Will Flowers
on
May 5, 2008 at 4:20:43 pm
I created an animation for a logo a few weeks back and on friday my client asked me to create a new series of items for a different video. I wanted to add the logo animation to the end of this new series. Can I pull that older comp into the newer one? I saved it as a quick time and imported it that way, but lost some quality.
Re: Comp Question by Dave LaRonde on May 5, 2008 at 4:29:48 pm
Yeah, you can re-use the old comp as a nested comp in the new project. Just import the old project into the new one -- you can do that in AE.
But unless the old project's really small, I wouldn't do it...yet. First, I'd duplicate the old project, delete anything in it I didn't need, save it, and THEN I'd import the leaner and meaner old project into the new project. It cuts down on confusion that way.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: Comp Question by Darby Edelen on May 5, 2008 at 6:27:17 pm
[Dave LaRonde]"First, I'd duplicate the old project, delete anything in it I didn't need, save it"
There's a handy feature under the File menu in After Effects called 'Reduce Project.' If you select a composition (or compositions) and use 'Reduce Project' everything in the project that isn't referenced by that composition (or compositions) will be deleted. Obviously this should be used sparingly, and preferably on a copy of the project in almost every case, but it's a good way to eliminate everything you don't need for that one composition from the project.
However, if you pre-rendered anything for the composition it will only save the footage item that is being used and not the source comp for the pre-render. Just something to take note of.
Darby Edelen Lead Designer Left Coast Digital Santa Cruz, CA
Re: Comp Question by Todd Morgan on May 5, 2008 at 10:16:28 pm
If there are no changes to the logo animation, why not just render to uncompressed QT or TGA sequence and use that as the source footage in your new series?
Todd Morgan
Creative Director
morgancreative
www.morgancreative.ca
