Return-Path: Received: from oproxy1-pub.bluehost.com ([66.147.249.253] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 4653598 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:58:08 +0100 Received: (qmail 19648 invoked by uid 0); 13 Mar 2012 10:05:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box473.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.73) by oproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2012 10:05:14 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=helium14.com; s=default; h=To:References:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject:Mime-Version:Content-Type; bh=fQqKIlTicxkdRgf3D8hK2F9QqUxr85r50w1lj3359mU=; b=dcAUYU/O2o1ZUO8aWIm0vRhs5ppeeo+yQbK6rTwgWzLmivOwAd5gbNqi3yncnF/v2J55wq9PYlRm6dcW/jFjwiCd0e7uJgSfWvNifvcJmDsIVck6HbUUe9ZkMIH3aTzd; Received: from [77.40.165.3] (helo=jedi.emea.corp.ipgnetwork.com) by box473.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1S7ObS-0001Le-8O for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:05:14 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Subject: Re: [AE] Driving me nuts From: Eric James Wood In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:05:12 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <214ED069-7A99-4F53-A4CB-09988CC9AD4F@helium14.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1257) X-Identified-User: {1790:box473.bluehost.com:heliumon:helium14.com} {sentby:smtp auth 77.40.165.3 authed with list@helium14.com} Not sure of the way your files are built, and this probably won't work = since it sounds like your using a lot of layers across different = portions, but could you make pre comps of the bits you want in each part = and then drag all the pre comps over to the render que? On 2012.Mar.13, at 10.15, Jonathan Penzner wrote: > Still works that way in 5.5. >=20 > What is so tedious is creating the work area, then having to make a = custom selection. I'm breaking down about one hundred clips out of maybe = 12 comps. Making sure I select the Custom option each time is a real = pain. It would be so much easier if I could select a piece of the clip = and have it stick without going through the extra 4 clicks =96 that is = when I remember to do it. Cause if I forget, and I do sometimes, it's a = really big pain to go back and figure out what I screwed up. --=20 Helium14 | www.helium14.com Design | Motion + Graphic www.helium14.com 'the next best thing to knowing something, is knowing where to find it'