• Adobe After Effects

  copy a comp from one project into another?

  Posted by Trevor Ward on April 12, 2007 at 2:45 pm

  I’ve got two projects already started. There is a comp in the first project that I’d like to copy into the second project. But I don’t know how to do it. Is it possible? how to do it?

  Or am I forced to recreating the comp (I’m trying to save 30 minutes now. although, i’m sure i’ll want to do this again sometime.)

  -trevor ward
  http://www.redeyevideoproductions.com
  orlando, fl

  Jason King replied 13 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jim Kanter

  April 12, 2007 at 3:11 pm

  Import the other project as though it were a clip. It will create a folder in the project pane containing the compositions.

  Jim Kanter,
  Digital Film Institute
  http://www.dfilminst.com
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  Jason King

  November 28, 2012 at 1:26 am

  Dave… never start a comment with “Easy”, especially with your recommended answer. Th e proper method is very dependent on the size of the project. With my current project that would take hours to narrow down the project size and the chance of deleting something that was associated with a pre-comp is very high.

  I believe there is a script that can solve this but I’ve yet to find it. Any other thoughts on this questions? Possible ways to duplicate and reduce duplicate files.

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