Open components inside components
Go into a component inside a component, like nested precomps, and back out level by level.
Components can sit inside components: an icon inside a button, a button inside a card. Inside a component, double-click a nested instance to open that component too. Each level has its own timeline, and the path above the timeline shows how deep you are.
- Double-click the card on the stage: the timeline shows ‹ Main timeline › ◆ Card.
- Double-click the button inside it: the path becomes ‹ Main timeline › ◆ Card › ◆ Button, and the timeline shows the button's clock and layers.
- Click Card in the path to go back one level, or ‹ Main timeline to go all the way back to the scene.
- Double-click
- Open the instance's component (stage, timeline lane or clip)
- ⌘↓
- Open the selected instance's component (Stage → Open Component)
- esc or ⌘↑
- Up one level (to the parent component, or the scene) (Stage → Back to Parent)
- ‹ Main timeline
- Back to the scene from any depth
- A crumb in the path
- Back to that level
The stage pill names only the component you're in, and Done says where it goes: its tooltip reads “Back to Card (esc)” or “Back to the scene (esc)”. In a narrow timeline, the middle of the path folds into “…”.
Edits at any depth go straight into every copy: change the button while you're inside the card, and every button in every card and in the scene follows.
Every level remembers where you left its playhead, so going up and back down resumes each timeline where it was, for as long as the session is open.