After Effects Master Properties



Link Properties with the Property Link Pick Whip in After Effects. Introduction to Master Properties in After Effects (youtube.com).

  • Use the Property Link Pick Whip from the source text of a Master Property to link it to a field from the CSV. Customize the expression to automatically pull from the next row as the name of the composition updates Rename the composition to match the name of the column in the CSV. Change the last bracket of the expression to say (thisComp.name).
  • Solved: I am using AE 2017.2 version. Essential Graphics available but when the comp is nested then the master properties of that comp is not showing up.

From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Motion Graphics

From the course: After Effects CC 2019 Essential Training: Motion Graphics

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After Effects Master Properties Online

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- [Instructor] Master Properties are a great new workflow addition to After Effects and can dramatically change how you work. They work along with the Essential Graphics panel and offer users a method for both overriding and versioning. This means that we can tweak existing animation non-destructively and create different versions of an animation without having to create duplicate compositions first. Let me show you what I mean. In this example, I have a box, and I'm going to animate it moving from left to right. So with layer one selected, I'll hit p and insert a keyframe. Down at one second later, I'm going to nudge this over to the right-hand side. And here's our simple animation. Now I'd like to take this Position parameter and add into my Essential Graphics panel. If you don't already have this open, you can find it here under Window, Essential Graphics. Now I'm going to define the master comp here by selecting my Box Move from this drop-down list, and now I can add my Position…

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