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Copy paste effect keyframes loses effect attributes
When I copy keyframes for an effect and paste them onto another layer, AE pastes the keyframes and the effect, but the effect loses some of the attributes that were in the original effect. For example I’ll have a Tritone effect on one layer with keyframes that change the Blend With Original Opacity, and when I copy and paste those keyframes to another layer, the colors reset to their default black and white.
I know if I copy and paste the whole effect, it will maintain the attributes correctly. But it’d be nice to copy and paste other keyframes from one layer to another such as Transform properties along with the effect keyframes, and paste all of those at once onto another layer to easily maintain the keyframes’ timing. It’s a pain to copy and paste Transform properties, and then do another copy and paste for the whole effect, and then move those keyframes for the effect to line up with the transform properties. Seems like when you copy any type of keyframes, they should all paste without losing any attributes or resetting.
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Yeah that is pretty strange indeed. It would make sense if you copy the whole keyframes with the edited attributes, it should come with the same edited settings when pasting, it is a pain to take an extra step in order to do so. Here is what I find that can clarify this confusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9UER_WZ9fA
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After Effects will paste whatever you copied, and if it has to add an effect to complete the paste, it will.
If you want to paste modified properties, you have to copy them first. If you select the layer with the properties/keyframes you want to copy and hit UU, it will show all modified properties — not just the ones with keyframes. Select the properties you want to copy (whether they have keyframes or not), then copy, then paste.
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YES! Thank you Walter. Simple and effective.
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Well… in practice this is still not a simple technique. Pressing UU will pull up ALL the modified keyframes. So you can’t simply drag a box around all the modified properties or else you will copy properties that you don’t want as well. Instead, you have to look through a potentially long list of properties and carefully pick which ones you want and don’t want to copy. I find this to be quite tedious.
Copying and pasting keyframes is simple because they are easily visible. Copying and pasting specific modified keyframes however, is difficult because they blend in and are hard to weed out amongst the others.
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