man i’ve been trying to this basic concept which seems like AE would have a more logical way of handling this idea of keeping the effects but replacing the image or footage with out effecting the orginal. I’ve duplicated my project files I’ve renamed my comps within comps but it still seems to effect the orginal one. Why do they make it so difficult to figure out such essential part of motion graphics. UGGGGG!!!! the reason i’m actually trying to figure this out unlike in the previous projects is because it would reduce my production time by 1000 percent!!!
What do you mean by precomps. I have my main comp then i have a imgage comp which has 3 more comps with in that. I mean i comp like crazy so it deep. Thinking that if i had my main image comp’ed and just renamed it when i duplicated it all i would have to do was switch out the pic. Of course AE is dumb because when i drop the dubplicated comp in it doesn’t duplicate the comps with in the comp and keeps the orginal ones from the first one which does does nothing.
Someone Please help