Pages & nested frames

Pages

A document is split into pages — separate workspaces that each show their own set of frames. The canvas shows one page at a time, so you can spread a large project across pages instead of crowding everything onto one canvas.

There’s also an auto-managed Nestedpage that quietly holds pre-composed source frames — the frames referenced by nested clips elsewhere — so your visible pages don’t get cluttered with comps that only exist to be nested into something else. Components get the same treatment on their own auto-managed page.

Nesting frames

Nesting a frame turns it into a clip you can place inside another frame’s timeline— a pre-comp. A nested clip carries its own playback controls: speed, loop (none / loop / ping-pong), reverse, and an optional independent loop length, so a nested comp’s loop cycle can run shorter or longer than its own natural duration.

Nesting is arbitrarily deep — a nested comp can itself contain more nested comps — and they all stay in sync with the parent timeline. Double-click to drill in and edit a nested comp in place.

One retiming system

Speed, loop and reverse aren’t special-cased for nesting — nested comps, video clips and audio-asset clips all share the same retiming contract. Learning how one works means you already know the others.