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Animate master properties

Animate master properties - After Effects Tutorial

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Animate master properties

- [Narrator] When you adjust a master property in a separate parent comp, that source property value doesn't change. This allows you to create multiple iterations of a single property on multiple layers. But what if you want to change the relationship between all those versions of the same property to relink or override them? I'll place the child title comp inside parent. And I will reveal its controls up here in essential graphics. If I right click on a property, I can reveal it in the timeline and in that child comp, I can see that this color is actually being set with an expression control. So the reason for that is that one color control is actually effecting multiple elements in the scene. And so they're all linked to it. I'll twirl down here in the timeline. And I'm going to change the color right here. I'll just change it to something like that. And notice that although it's changed in the comp view and here on the timeline, it has not changed in essential graphics nor in the…

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