• Adobe After Effects

  Duplicating comps…

  Posted by Steve Blacker on December 2, 2009 at 4:28 pm

  Quick question…

  I have a project containing a comp, which in turn contains many precomps. I am creating different versions of the main comp, and so duplicating it (and the precomps inside it) to create these different versions.

  My question is: is there a way to duplicate a comp that will automatically create duplicates of all the precomps inside it?

  Thanks,

  Steve

  It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else…

  Steve Blacker replied 16 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Mecklenborg

  December 2, 2009 at 4:52 pm

  I believe EDIT>DUPLICATE should do the trick.
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  Chris Wright

  December 2, 2009 at 7:17 pm

  I believe importing the project compositions back into the project should retain the proper linking.

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  Curious Turtle

  December 2, 2009 at 7:52 pm

  Chris is 100% right. I’ll often create little “snippet” projects that I can just import and adjust as necessary without affecting the original precomp. So give that a try.

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  Ben

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  Steve Blacker

  December 2, 2009 at 11:57 pm

  Thanks for the responses, guys. I was afraid the answer was no… It would be a handy feature for sure. I will definitely try the other method of importing the project. Thanks again.

  It’s only work if you’d rather be doing something else…

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