Master Properties give you the ability
to more easily manage changes and versions
across multiple graphics.
Let me show you what I mean.
If we look at our current project here,
I am in the Norway composition
and this composition has a pre-composition called Title_Animation
and a background Stock piece of video.
So, I'm going to move back to the beginning of the Timeline
and press the Spacebar so we can check out the animation.
You can see it's just a simply animated title.
But what if I want to be able to change the color of this title
or change the text itself.
Well, I'll press the Spacebar to stop playback.
Usually if I want to make changes,
I need to go ahead and open up this pre-composition
because if I open this up here,
you can see I only have Transform options.
So, what I'll do is just double click on this pre-composition
which is going to open the Title_Animation comp.
Now, if I scrub through the Timeline here,
you can see this is where
the main animation of this graphic currently lies.
Now, I want to specify the things that I'd like to be able to change.
These will end up being Master Properties.
So, in order to do that,
I need to go up to my workspaces
and I'm going to go across my workspaces here
and I'll click on the double white arrows
and I'll go to the Essential Graphics panel.
In that panel, I need to select a composition
to be my master composition,
so, I'll click on that dropdown and I'll choose
the Title_Animation composition to be the master
and then I'll tell it to Solo Supported Properties.
Now, once I've clicked that,
you'll notice I have a whole bunch of different properties
that I could customize.
So, I want to be able to change the text
for the location.
So here, I'm going to scroll down to where it says Norway
and I'll click on Source Text
and I'll drag that and drop it right up here
in the Essential Graphics panel
and I'll rename that Location Text.
Now, I also want to change the color of this graphic,
so, I'll scroll around until I can actually see
there's my Inside Frame
and the Fill Color is blue
so, I'll drag that color up here
and I'll rename this Bar Color.
Now, any of these properties I could add here
into the Essential Graphics panel,
but I think I'm good for now.
Let's go to the Norway composition
and you'll notice now
for this pre-comp, I not only have Transform options,
I also have Master Properties.
So, if I wanted this bar to be red instead of this blue color,
I'll come right here to my color sampler
and I'll just sample this red color.
And now, you can see it's actually more of a salmon color.
but I'll leave that.
Now, I already have another composition, Canada,
and if I click on this,
you can see I've got my same Title_Animation here
that has the same Master Properties.
So, for this one, notice I still have the original blue color
that we had in our main Title_Animation comp,
but I didn't have to go back to this composition
to change anything because I have my Master Properties.
I can go ahead and right click here on Location Text
and I can say Edit Value...,
and when I do that in here,
I'll type canada.
Now, notice even though I typed all lowercase,
it stayed uppercase
because in the master Title_Animation comp when I created the text,
I made sure that all caps was on for that text.
So, I was able to change the text here,
I was able to change the color here,
but I never had to go back to the master composition.
By utilizing Master Properties,
I was able to better manage versioning across multiple projects.