How to Use Master Properties in After Effects
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2018
- Learn how Master Properties work in After Effects with this exclusive After Effects tutorial.
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Caleb Ward (00:11): Hey, what's up. This is Caleb with school of motion. And in this after effects tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use this brand new feature in after effects called a master properties. Now, master properties has the potential to dramatically change your after effects workflow, especially when it comes to doing a tedious task. So let's hop in. So the first thing that you need to do is download the project file to follow along with this tutorial, you can find that project file over on our website, just click the link in the description of this video. So the first thing that we need to do is talk about what master properties actually do. So let's take this example. So if we're inside of after effects and we want to pre composed something, let's say we want to pre compose these three triangles down here. So we have this animation and the triangles kind of move over just like that.
Caleb Ward (01:05): So what you would typically do is select all of your triangles here. You would go to layer pre compose, or hit command shift C, and we would call this, um, triangle comp and hit, okay, now what happens if you duplicate this triangle and you rotate it by 180 degrees, and let's say that you want to actually change the colors of these triangles up here, but you don't want to change the colors of these triangles down here. What would you do? Well, usually what you have to do in after effects is you would physically have to go in now and double click in here. You'd have to copy all of these triangles. You'd have to paste them. You'd have to pre compose those rotate it. It's an annoying process to say the least. So master properties basically allow you to change certain properties inside of compositions that can then be pushed to master compositions.
Caleb Ward (02:00): And so they are appropriately named master properties. So I'm going to go ahead and undo all of those changes that we just did. And I'm going to get down to some very specific examples. So let's say that you were tasked with creating some graphic intros for a new HD TV show called master properties and master properties wanted you to create four different intros with different background colors. Now, typically the way that you would do this is by duplicating your composition for different times and going in and changing the composition. But with master properties, it's really, really easy to do this in a non-destructive way. So what I'm going to do is go up here to window and I'm going to make sure we have our essential graphics panel selected. And when we have that selected go in here and hit so low supported properties. So this is going to pop up all of the properties that are available to you, um, to use in an essential graphics panel or a master properties composition.
Caleb Ward (03:01): So you'll notice that with the latest update to after effects, you now have the ability to, uh, bring over new properties like anchor point position and scale. That's very handy. If you want to learn more about using the essential graphics panel to edit after effects, compositions in premier pro, go check out the essential graphics tutorial here on school of motion. So what I'm gonna do is scrub all the way down to the bottom, to our background layer here, and I'm gonna drag up this color. That's being generated from this fill effect, and we'll call this BG color and I'm going to go up here to this clear box, color, this little box right here, and I'm gonna drag up that color and we'll just call this the box color. Excellent. So what we can do now is take this logo here, uh, this logo intro composition, and I'm gonna drag and drop this into the new composition button.
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This is the best thing in AE i have ever seen. This saves me about 20 years of repetitive work for thousands of files. thank you
mind = BLOWN... How did this feature slip under my radar the last few years? What a time saver I reckon...
This is something that I've always felt was painfully missing in AfterEffects. I've found times that I needed to fill that gap with custom expressions, but this is awesome. Now all AE needs to do is implement a node-based interface. :)
Fantastic feature, possibilities are endless when you combine other options to it...
Great tutorial! Take care that if you are working with your “Fast Previews” set to “Fast Draft” the changes on Master Properties are not reflected in the comp viewer. You have to be at least in “Draft” mode.
This is game changing
Thank you very much for this tip, was searching for this for years
Thank you, Caleb for this informative tutorial! I can see why Master Properties is such a big deal.
Çok teşekkür ederim. Tam aradığım buydu :D
You're really talented and a great teacher. Well done
this is Heaven. makes any projects so Ez 👌
Thanks for another brilliant breakdown, Caleb!
Great! Looking forward to implementing this feature between AE and Premiere Pro.
Looks like a great addition to After Effects and I can see how it could be very useful once you get the hang of it and work it into your workflow. Thanks for the video!
Change text - Right click "Source Text" then click "Edit Value." Thanks!
Awesome!
Really Helpful Thanks School of Motion !!
Love the easy way you explained that, thanks.
I've been testing this out with rigged characters. Works great with only having to have ONE layer for a whole rigged character and just having the parameters that I need to animate, visible in the new comp. The only thing that bugs me is that you can't copy and paste keyframes in the new comp. I have a walk cycle and eye blinks that I want repeated, and I can't just copy-paste to extend it. I hope they fix that!
This can be useful when you are replicating the same thing over and over again, but don't want to lose your keyframes. Similar to the "override" feature in Sketch.