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Help with something really simple….
Hi, feel daft asking this, but still haven’t figured it out yet…
I’ve some footage in a composition, and I’ve applied a corner pin effect to it, and rendered it to a quicktime clip.
That’s all fine and well, but I now have to do the same for a number of other video files, using the exact same corner pin settings.Surely I don’t have to keep starting from scratch, and retype the corner pin co-ordinates everytime?
My composition from the last render would be fine for the next render, if I could just swap the last videoclip file with the next, and keep the rest of the composition the same. How do I do this?In Media 100, you can just drag the new videoclip over the old videoclip whilst holding in APPLE and it replaces the clip, and all the surrounding settings stay the same. In Boris FX I would just click the layer type and choose a new video file to use in that layer, with the settings for that layer preserved. But in After Effects…what is it I should do?
In short: How can I apply the same effect to a number of different clips, without starting from scratch each time?
(Am using After Effects 5.5 on OS9).
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6 Replies
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Have just found the “Save favourite…”/”Apply Favourite…” filter option, which has sped things up a little, but am still having to start a new comp with a new clip.
Anyone got any advice on how to pull off the more ideal replacing of one video clip with another,whilst preserving filters and other composition settings?
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Hey, I know how tedious it can be to do the same process over and over. On a PC if you have your video clip in your timeline and you want to replace that clip with another video clip while maintaining all the same effects and processes just alt click and drag the new clip from the project window and drop it over the old clip in the timeline window. On a mac I believe you would hold in the apple key. Hope this helps.
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Duplicate the comp by selecting it in the Project Window and hitting Command-D (Mac shortcut, I don’t know the PC shortcut but it’s in the Help file.) Rename it by hitting Enter. Now open the new comp and highlight the layer you’d like to replace. Hold down Option (Mac) Alt(PC) and drag the replacement layer from the Project window to the Comp.
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[djmattcue] “just alt click and drag the new clip from the project window and drop it over the old clip in the timeline window. On a mac I believe you would hold in the apple key.”
The mac equivalent of alt is option. Ctrl is equivalent to the apple/command key. Adobe is very good about keeping to this standard.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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Thanks.
Looks like my problem was I was holding down APPLE instead of OPTION/ALT.
Thanks for your prompt response! ^_^
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Select the layer in your comp. Select the layer you want to replace it with in the project window.
On a PC hit Alt + Ctrl + /
On a Mac hit Command + Option + /
It will replace the clip in your composition with the clip you selected in the project window. Much faster than dragging with a mouse.
I found it under Keyboard Shortcut in the help menu (F1).
Michael.
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