Download a nested comp and reuse in another project

Question

I have a character precomp nested inside of a comp, I want to reuse this character in another project but I'm not quite sure how to download the nested comp to my files separately, doing this without dragging the entire project along with it. is there a way to just download a precomp as as an AEP file? I'd love to see how to achieve this.

Rick Gerard · Answer

Open the original comp with the character. Select just the Character nested comp (pre-comp) in the Project Panel. Go to File/Dependencies/Reduce Project. Now save the project with a new name. Something like My Character.aep might be good.

Start a new project. Import, do not open, but Import the My Character.aep into the new comp. Work on the next project. You'll have everything you need and nothing extra. The original comp with the character will be unchanged.

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