After Effects and Nesting

Learning how to nest in After Effects is very important to your workflow. If you are not familiar with the term nesting here is a quick explanation:
When creating an elaborate composition, you may find it easier to organize the layers that make up the composition by using a technique called nesting--putting one or more compositions into another composition. You can create many levels of nesting. Nesting will allow you to save many hours of matching scale and timing to other layers. To fully understand nesting you should go through this great tutorial on nesting and you will be able do complex tasks that not only look professional but save hours of time!
