• Adobe After Effects

  Create replicable comp

  Posted by Francesco Benciolini on June 17, 2019 at 11:02 am

  Hi, i’m having a problem and i struggle even to come up with keywords to search for it:

  I’m making a series similar to this one:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWG9CD3nkGA

  I made a little animated face with controllers from joysticks ‘n sliders and with arms made in rubber hose, and it works pretty well, now i need to make it as an effect so that when i copy it in a new comp a and animate it without messing the animation in other comps, is it possible? i tried to create a project in after effects and than import that project inthe main one every time i need a new copy, but it messes up the expressions.

  as an other way to put it: if i create a motion template file for premiere then if i put multiple copies of it in a timeline every copy has his own parameters, changing them in a new copy will not reflect in already present ones.
  i need to do the same with a comp in aftter effects.
  To duplicate the comp would be very difficult because it has nested comps and changing the name would break some expressions

  Is there a solution i am missing?

  Thank you in advance 🙂

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  Francesco Benciolini

  Post Production Supervisor
  Kondoo Video
  Milan, Italy

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  Michael Szalapski replied 7 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Eric Santiago

  June 17, 2019 at 1:11 pm

  It’s early in the morning but I’ll take a stab at this.
  Can you save the file and just re-import each file as a different project?
  I do this all the time and this way the nested pre-comps don’t get lost.
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  Michael Szalapski

  June 20, 2019 at 9:12 pm

  It sounds like you need to look into Master Properties. You can have as many instances as you want of your character comp – all with different values for each one!

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