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  • Duplicating linked comps/subcomps leaves them linked to wrong subcomps

    Posted by David Ghast on July 7, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    If i have comp A which is nested in Comp b, and i want to fork and make a duplicate set of those comps, if i do then the dupe comp B will still be connected to the original comp A. Is there a way to do this without manually renesting?

    Walter Soyka replied 14 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Walter Soyka

    July 7, 2012 at 7:42 pm

    Technically, duplicating a comp leaves it connected the right (original) precomps — this is as designed.

    True Comp Duplicator [link] will let you duplicate an entire structure of comps and precomps.

    Alternately, you can Save As with your project, reduce it to the single comp and dependencies that you need, then reimport this into your previous project.

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