• Adobe After Effects

  Copy / Paste material from one project to another

  Posted by Stig Olsen on January 8, 2014 at 3:52 pm

  Hi,

  I need to copy some layers from one project to another. When opening a new project and pasting the layer, they change places. Layer number 3 become layer number 17 and so on.
  You know anything about that? AE CC.

  And… I would like if it was possible to group compositions together, as I prefere to make a new project for each customer and not each project.

  Stig

  George Goodman replied 12 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Erik Waluska

  January 8, 2014 at 5:14 pm

  When you copy/paste layers they will paste in the order you selected them, first one on top.

  Not sure what you mean about grouping compositions.

  Erik Waluska
  EAWmedia
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  George Goodman

  January 8, 2014 at 6:30 pm

  There’s a really handy way to do this with this script:

  https://aescripts.com/save-comp-as-project/

  As the name suggests, you can save a composition as a project. Now you can just import that project into your new project and the composition will be exactly as it was in the other.

  ***BEWARE THOUGH – do not put a / in your comp name or else it will overwrite your entire original project file. I had this problem before, it sucked. It’s a great script though, I’ve just started duplicating the project I want to pull assets out of before running it in case I come across any other oddities like that (always good to have your backup)

  “|_ (°_0) _|”

  Sincerely,

  George

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