duplicating a comp

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duplicating a comp

Posted by Anita Sancha on January 20, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Hi…

I have set up a comp with 1 layer in it. This is part of a merry go round. All the attributes and keyframes etc are in this layer.

Now I want to duplicate this comp so it is has all the same qualities and slide it along 10 frames and then go into it and change the image of the fairground ride from horse to elephant. This way I get all the same movements, but when I change the “ride”. It changes all of them as well.

Renaming the comp does not make them independent either. So how to make a new comp identical in settings, but unique. Plz thanks.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

Anita Sancha replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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Joey Foreman
January 20, 2011 at 5:04 pm

I think you’ll find this script very helpful.

https://aescripts.com/true-comp-duplicator/

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
Anita Sancha
January 20, 2011 at 6:12 pm

Thanks Dave.

That is what I tried in the first place and hence this post.

I am feeling pretty stupid as I cant think why this is happening. If I change the name of the comp in settings the comps have different names. but If I change the layer inside in any of them… i.e tint. It tints all of the comps. So these comps are still the same despite name change. These layers are just 1 layer no nests just 1 plain layer. It should work.

Maybe I can just make new comps and copy the masks etc on that comp. and copy paste the layer inside, but I just does not seem to be easy for some reason.

Thanks anyway.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk
Anita Sancha
January 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Ok

Hope this helps. Thanks for your help.

I have a main comp and inside this I made a layer which had a horse and all the atributes of movements. Then I nested this (called it horse) and moved the attributes when the nest was made. So I have a new comp (horse) and inside it the layer.

I want to duplicate the comp (horse) and then rename it (elephant) and then go into that nest and replace the image to one of an elephant.

I want to go back to main comp and move the comp (Elephant 10 frames). So I then should have a horse followed by an elephant.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk
Joey Foreman
January 20, 2011 at 7:15 pm

For your duplicated comp, all of the nested comps have to be duplicated and renamed as well, before changing the attributes of their layer(s).
Simple enough, but if you have to do this several times it gets tedious and time consuming.

It was this situation I found myself in with a client.
The True Comp duplicator takes the hassle out of it, hence my recommendation.

Maybe this demo video will sell you –

https://aeportal.blogspot.com/2010/04/true-comp-duplicator-after-effects.html

Best of luck.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist
Anita Sancha
January 20, 2011 at 7:42 pm

Yuhoooo

Great thanks that works… actually its not horses and elephants but that was the only way to describe it. Its part of my latest animation called “the plastic planet” and it is different plastic rubbish going around the world like a merry go round.!!! But If I had tried to describe it you may have thought me mad!!!

Thanks a bunch . I was having so much trouble duplicating comps….

Thanks for all your help
Anita Sancha.

http://www.anitasancha.co.uk

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