Problem with duplicating compositions

[Michal Bronec]

Oh, I didnt click on the main comp before it. Now it works! Thanks!

[John Cuevas]

I’ll break the entire process down step by step from the start.

1. Open your main comp, press Cntl+K and change your duration to 60 seconds.
2. Double click the “Room” layer to open precomp, double click “Floor” layer to open precomp. Cntl+K and change duration to 60 seconds. Press “End”, “Cntl + A” and “alt + ]” to extend the Floor.pngs to the length of the comp.
3. Return to “Room” precomp and change the duration to 60 seconds and extend all layers to the duration of the comp.
4. Return to main comp, press “End”, select layer “Camera 1”, “Brightness” and “Color” and “Room” and entend to the duration of the comp.
5. In the timeline duplicate “Titles5” and “Your Text Here 5″(Cntl+D). Move them down below the original layers–they should now be layers 12 and 13.
6. Select “Titles5″(layer 10) and press “U” to reveal the keyframes. Hold down shift and move toe the 2nd to last keyframes(holding shift will snap you to those keyframes). You should be at 26:03 right now. Now select the duplicated layers and press “[“. That will move them into position you need.
7. In the Project window, open the folder “Titles” and duplicate “Title5”, when you do this it will automatically rename it “Title6”. Just to make sure you are doing everything correctly, open up this comp, and change the text to be “PLACEHOLDER 6”.
8. In the main comp, select your duplicated “Title5” layer. In the project window, select your comp “Title6” and press “cntl+alt+/”. This replaces sources, but keeps all the keyframes and effects.
9. Repeat these steps for as many layers as you need to finish the project. Then move the layers “End Title” & “Company Logo” to the end and you should be good.

Sorry I don’t have a CS4 version around or I’d update your project for you. Hope this explanation helps you out…

ETA: looks like you got it all worked out, glad we were able to help you out.

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com

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[Eric Chard]

I was trying to follow this, but got lost in the weeds:

Is the problem the OP wasn’t using the 3D camera in the MAIN comp?

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