Automatic Duck Pro Import AE 5.0 (Win 64-bit for CS5 or CS5.5) - Manual (Page 9)

Precompify layers based on track
While certainly the power of Pro Import
AE is that it builds an AE comp with each
video clip as a separate layer. But
sometimes you want the option to treat
everything from a single video track together as one element in After Effects.
It can be helpful to know at a glance that layers came from different tracks.
When Precompify clips based on track is enabled, all the clips from a track in the AAF/
OMF/XML file are placed into a nested composition.
You can still open the nested comp to edit or apply effects to the individual clips, but in
the main comp you will be able to treat the entire track as one element.
Colorize layers using labels
When you bring your edited sequence
into After Effects it can at first be a little
disorienting to see your clips from your
NLEʼs timeline spread out widely over
AEʼs timeline. Not only are clips from the
same video track exploded into many
individual layers, clips from different
tracks can end up far from each other. Any organization you had in your NLE can be lost
instantly. To help visually organize clips from different tracks, there are a couple of
options for alternating the label colors of layers.
Alternate label colors based on track
This way all the clips from V1 would be one color, then all the clips from V2 would be a
different color, and so on, drawing your eyeʼs attention to the differences in the timeline.
It can be helpful to know at a glance that layers came from different tracks.
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