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Workflow for placeholder comps
I’m going to explain the scenario as I can’t think of how to explain the issue any other way!
So I have this comp in AE, for the example lets call it ‘photo_template’. Inside it are 3 pre-comps (photo_left, photo_middle, photo_right). But I want to use this animation multiple times within a project, so I will copy and past ‘photo_template’ multiple times and have them all dynamic linked into premiere.
But each time I create a new version, I then have to create new versions of (photo_left, photo_middle, photo_right) – otherwise when I replace the video/image in those pre-comps, it will replace them in all my main comps.
What’s the workflow for this to prevent me having to do that?
Thanks
Alistair
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4 Replies
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you cant just copy and paste. you need to duplicate all related comps in the project window and replace them into the newly copied comp
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as Richard said you need a duplicated copy of all the hierarchy. you can do this manually or import the project to itself. if there are expressions relating certain things between comps this could get messy, a common tool to duplicate comps is true comp duplicator script.
Roei Tzoref
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Here is a script that will duplicate Comps/Precomps with the proper linking and hierarchies.
https://aescripts.com/true-comp-duplicator/
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
ThinkCK“I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
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If you make a pre-comp where all the needed footage of the photographs (be they stills or movies) are layed out all in sequence,
-> then you can always reuse the same composition, but with different values for time-remap.
If more things need to change than just the content of those photos, you can also look into master properties, they can help a lot with not having to duplicate precomps.
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