Any way to replace a layer's solid source ?

[Dan Ebberts]

Maybe just Alt+drag from the Solids folder in the Project panel onto the layer?

[Martin Dumas]

Eww. So easy 🙂

I failed to realize that the layer needs to be selected.
Thanks !

Do you know how to do it by script ?

[Dan Ebberts]

It depends on how you want to do it exactly. Here’s an example that replaces layer Solid 2’s source with layer Solid 1’s source:

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var source = myComp.layer("Solid 1").source;
myComp.layer("Solid 2").replaceSource(source,false);

[Walter Soyka]

Dan has mentioned how to swap sources inside a comp, but you can also do this across the entire project in the Project panel. Select the item/solid that you want to keep, hold Alt, and drag it onto the item/solid that you want to be replaced. Every instance of the second item throughout the entire project will be replaced with the first.