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Creating a nested sequence

Creating a nested sequence - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Video and Audio for Designers with Creative Cloud: Part 2

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Creating a nested sequence

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- [Instructor] Okay, so now we're going to bring in some other clips. And these are things that I've built in After Effects and then rendered out to make them easier to distribute. So I'm going to bring in AboutCircSaw, which explains a bit about the circular saw, like so, and then Points, which are some general safety points around dangerous tools like these. And then there's a small movie here, powerUpSaw, which shows how to get the thing started. Now, because I'm going to do quite a bit of work on this, and I don't want to be moving all individual clips around, I'm going to nest these into their own sequence, which is a little bit like making a comp within a comp in After Effects. Just going to drag across those to select them. And then go up to the Clip menu and choose Nest. And all we have to do is give this a name. So I'm going to call this Explainer, like so. Okay, that's it. And you'll see now it's represented as an entire other sequence inside of this file. Now, you can go…

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