A Guide to Precomposing in After Effects - Motion Tutorials
Here's a quick guide to Precomposing in After Effects. As we all know when working in After Effects our timeline panel can quickly become oversaturated with dozens if not hundreds layers. This can lead to a lot of confusion, which can be frustrating when you're trying to get job out to a client. Luckily for us there's a nifty feature called pre-composing that allows you to group and organize multiple layers in After Effects. With that in-mind let’s take a look at how to precompose in After Effects.
What is Precomposing?
Precomposing is the process of packaging a series of layers into a new composition in After Effects. In a way it's the same as grouping layers in Photoshop.
By grouping these layers together you can add animation, effects, or masks that will then be applied to all of the layers within.