• Adobe After Effects

  replacing video footage in Comp

  Posted by Marty Barsnack on July 6, 2009 at 3:21 am

  Is there a quick way of replacing video footage in a time line while keeping the same settings? I know by selecting the video layer you want to replace in the time line, then option + draging the new video into the time line it will replace that video and maintain the settings, but can you do this for more than one clip at a time? I have 100+ clips I’m looking to replace but keep the settings and was wondering if there was a quicker way of doing it.

  Thanks for the help,
  Scooter

  Todd Kopriva replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Stuart Elith

  July 6, 2009 at 3:23 am

  do you mean 100 instances of the same footage? if so, you can just re-load the footage in the Project window using the new source footage.

  If each layer has different footage, then I can’t see how this would be possible, as AE wouldn’t know which footage to pull in for each layer.
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  Todd Kopriva

  July 6, 2009 at 6:07 pm

  If your goal is to apply the same settings to a bunch of layers, then you could save a set of properties as an animation preset and then apply the animation preset to the various layers.

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