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Duplicating complex composites
I’m putting together a slide show in a 3d enviroment with a floor plain etc. I have the book covers in a complex composite to allow it to have a reflection which requires some treatment so the book cover image gets used about 3 times within it’s composite. What i want to do is basically duplicate that book cover that i spent about 20 to 30 minutes on and just switch out the cover with a different one but still keeping the orginal one in tack so now i have two book covers with the same treatment. I would repeat this about 20 times untill i have all the book covers ready to drop and place in my main comp. But when i duplicate my bookcover comps about 5 for the entire piece and then switch out the dublicated jpg of the bookcover with a new one nothing happens. So all the dupicated comps didn’t duplicate the orginal photo to be pic.jpg —> to pic.jpg2. I mean i could go into each one and copy the position and size etc and then paste it to the new cover but that just seems silly. How can i make an easy replace footage without it effecting my orginal cover while changing it in my new one. It it an expression i have to use?
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man i’ve been trying to this basic concept which seems like AE would have a more logical way of handling this idea of keeping the effects but replacing the image or footage with out effecting the orginal. I’ve duplicated my project files I’ve renamed my comps within comps but it still seems to effect the orginal one. Why do they make it so difficult to figure out such essential part of motion graphics. UGGGGG!!!! the reason i’m actually trying to figure this out unlike in the previous projects is because it would reduce my production time by 1000 percent!!!
What do you mean by precomps. I have my main comp then i have a imgage comp which has 3 more comps with in that. I mean i comp like crazy so it deep. Thinking that if i had my main image comp’ed and just renamed it when i duplicated it all i would have to do was switch out the pic. Of course AE is dumb because when i drop the dubplicated comp in it doesn’t duplicate the comps with in the comp and keeps the orginal ones from the first one which does does nothing.
Someone Please help
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Wow. It’s very hard for me to understand the issue you are having. Here’s a couple of thoughts.
1) Duplicating a comp does not create duplicates of any of the footage used within them. You must replace the footage within the duplicates manually.
2) Replacing a layer (or footage) within a composition without losing any keyframes, effects, etc. is easy. Just select the new footage in the project window, then ALT-drag it onto the layer you want to change. The layer’s settings, effects and keyframes will not be affected; only the footage itself will be changed.
Hope this helps.
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the alt drag thing just seems to just dop it like you normally would. There’s no sense of replacing anything. I’m on a PC. Do need to turn something on
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Nevermind I got it to work. I needed to be selected in the timeline.
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