You Ask, I Answer: Adjusting AE Templates To Make Them Loop

Kevin P. McAuliffe
Toronto Canada

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In this tutorial, a viewer asks how she can take a stock AE template that has room for 10-16 pictures, and duplicate precomps inside of her project, to essentially make a comp that could be loopable forever. The organizational concepts that are taught in this tutorial can be taken and applied to any project that you would need to duplicate elements in.

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