• Adobe After Effects

  copy & paste the effect information (after effect cs4)

  Posted by Mayuko Yoshida on November 11, 2010 at 1:10 am

  Hi, I want to copy & paste the effect information.
  How can I do that? I want to replace the image that already has the effect ( position, scale, etc information ) with another image.

  Paul Minnaar replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Paul Minnaar

  November 11, 2010 at 1:39 pm

  When in the layer with all the effects, press F3 to bring up the effects panel. Select all, ctrl+C and then select the target layer, press F3 and paste (ctrl+V) into the new layer.

  Should work
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  Walter Soyka

  November 11, 2010 at 2:00 pm

  [Mayuko Yoshida] “Hi, I want to copy & paste the effect information.
  How can I do that? I want to replace the image that already has the effect ( position, scale, etc information ) with another image.”

  No need to copy and paste if you want to replace the contents of a layer with another piece of footage. From the AE help on imported files and footage items:

  To replace the source footage item for a layer with another footage item, without affecting changes made to the layer properties, select the layer and then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the new footage item onto the layer in the Timeline panel.

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  Paul Minnaar

  November 12, 2010 at 6:30 am

  Whoooops my bad. I did not interpret the question correctly. Walter is 100% correct, just replace footage. pretty easy, I thought you wanted to apply the effects to another layer in the comp.

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