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Replace Composition w/ another Comp
Is there a way to replace a comp with another comp in your time line just like you can replace footage with other footage?
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You can hold the alt key (on a pc) and click and drag the comp from the Project list down onto and on-top-of an existing comp in the timeline. The new comp will replace the old one.
If the old comp is using a mask from the next layer, turn it off first. Otherwise you will replace the masking layer.
Hope this helps.
Rob Dahl
Transparent Alchemy
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They replace footage command doesn’t work for replacing an actual composition with another…but the holding option and dragging works perfectly.
It’s amazing how long one can go without knowing a simple shortcut like that!
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that’s it. thanks a bunch guys.
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I too got stuck with a problem where the replace footage command in the project did not have the “desired effect” nested inside my main comp. I think maybe something was messed up, as this technique replaced by entire comp with just one layer of footage from a a recently modified AI file. Funnt, because I do this many times during a project with great results – until today.
Onlt by importing the AI file under a new name, then “alt dragging” the AI file as a comp from the project pannel into the few nested comps where it was ten replaced – I managed to get back on track.
So in some cases I think the two techniques are not the same, even though replacing footage in the project panel seems to be the safest technique most of the time.
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Hi,
I wanted to find out how I could do this with a script?
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Thank you, thank you, thank you! You saved me!
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Three years later and this just saved me a ton of time. Thanks!
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I need to do something similar to this but want to replace a composition with another composition all from the project panel. Pretty sure there’s no way of doing this using the standard after effects tools so I wonder if there’s a script to do it.
The reason I need this is I have a composition that’s used 10 times in my project and I want to replace it with a new composition. And I have to do this a lot of times so the long ways of doing it aren’t ideal!
Anyone know of a script or some other way of doing it??
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sorry meant this to come at the bottom of the thread….
I need to do something similar to this but want to replace a composition with another composition all from the project panel. Pretty sure there’s no way of doing this using the standard after effects tools so I wonder if there’s a script to do it.
The reason I need this is I have a composition that’s used 10 times in my project and I want to replace it with a new composition. And I have to do this a lot of times so the long ways of doing it aren’t ideal!
Anyone know of a script or some other way of doing it??
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[Linus Kraemer] “I need to do something similar to this but want to replace a composition with another composition all from the project panel. Pretty sure there’s no way of doing this using the standard after effects tools so I wonder if there’s a script to do it.”
You can Alt+drag to replace something inside the project panel, too! Let’s say you have two comps: ORIGINAL (used 10 times in your project) and REPLACEMENT (the new comp that isn’t used anywhere). Select REPLACEMENT in the project panel, hold down the Alt or Option key, and drag and drop it onto ORIGINAL. All uses of ORIGINAL will be replaced with REPLACEMENT.
Alternately, you could right-click ORIGINAL and choose “Replace with Precomp (used 10 times).” Then you could step into the new precomp this would create (“ORIGINAL Precomp”), delete the ORIGINAL comp layer inside there, and do whatever you want in the new comp.
Walter Soyka
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