• Adobe After Effects

  How do I update 1 composition that is used across multiple projects?

  Posted by Bill Clay on August 4, 2016 at 6:25 pm

  I have 10 separate AE projects.
  They all use the same 5 second composition at the beginning.
  Is there a way to update the 5 second composition without opening each AE project?

  Looking back, I think I should have built everything into 1 project file, instead of 10.

  Bill Clay replied 10 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Bill Clay

  August 4, 2016 at 8:10 pm

  Thank you, sir.
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  Kevin Camp

  August 4, 2016 at 8:14 pm

  if the 5 second composition can be replaced by a clip, pre-render the 5 second comp in one of the projects, then replace the 5 second comps in the other projects with the render.

  pre-rendering has a post-render action that will automatically import the rendered clip and replace the pre-rendered comp with the clip. it won’t delete the comp, so you can make changes in the future and simply pre-render it again.

  or, you could import the other projects into single project, replace any shared comps with a single instance of the shared comp and then you’d have all your projects within a single project… make a change to that 5 second comp once, and it will be reflected in the others…

  Kevin Camp
  Art Director
  KCPQ, KZJO & KRCW
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  Bill Clay

  August 4, 2016 at 8:21 pm

  much thanks, sir.

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