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Lesson 6

Parenting and Nesting

Grouping layers to make them easier to coordinate.

In This Lesson

parenting, nesting, and expressions defined

assigning a parent

parenting, opacity, and effects

parenting with null objects

nesting to group layers; using guides

editing precomps

navigating composition hierarchies

nesting a common source

sizing precomps

ETLAT (edit this, look at that)

precomposing a group of layers

precomposing a single layer

render order explained

splitting work between comps

precompose options compared

using precomposing to reorder

continuous rasterization

collapsing transformations

compound effects

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