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The same, but better.

On macOS, Pre-compose Pro lives in the layer menu, right next to the native Pre-compose. On Windows, you’ll find it in the File > Scripts menu. You can

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You should treat Pre-compose Pro exactly the same as the native Pre-compose tool — it works in exactly the same way, but with some great added features.

Keyboard Shortcuts

On macOS, you can add the 'Cmd+Shift+C' keyboard shortcut to After Effects from the Pre-compose Pro settings window. On Windows, you can add a shortcut to Pre-compose Pro manually in the native After Effects Keyboard Shortcuts panel — just search for ‘PrecomposePro’. On both platforms, you could add the .jsxbin file to a KBar shortcut.

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