How to duplicate a layer AND change the photos in these layers

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December 21, 2022
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Hello,

First of all, I am totally new to After Effects.

I have a slideshow in After Effects and in this slideshow there are several layers which show different photos. But 1 layer has photos in a landscape size and the other layer has photos in a portrait size. Now I want all layers to have landscape sizes. So I copied (or duplicated) a layer with a landscape sized photo. But when I change the photo in that layer, the photo in the original layer also changes into that photo. And that is not what I want. I want the photo in the original layer to stay the photo it had.

I hope I can make clear what I want (because English is not my native language).

Anybody who knows how to do this?

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Mylenium

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You can change the label color for layers individually. It doesn't affect how they work.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/layers.html

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Marc van ZuylenAuthor

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Hello Mylenium,
it is not so much the color of the bars, but the behavior.

The project is a slideshow of different photographs. Each purple bar represents an 'action'. When I open such a purple bar I there can find a photo and some more. I there can change the photo into a photo of my own.

But the yellow bar on the timeline is not an 'action'. When I play the timeline the photo in the yellow bar is always visible form the start of the slideshow untill the yellow bar ends. But I want SEO_23 to be the same as all the other SEO's. So that it is a purple 'action' and not a fixed photo (yellow).

Mylenium

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You may want to study up how pre-compositions work be reading the online help. You have to duplicate them in the project window to make them independent, not the layer in the timeline.

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Marc van ZuylenAuthor

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@Mylenium thank you for your quick reply.

So I have duplicated it in the project window in stead of the timeline.

I have duplicated SEO_2 and renamed it to SEO_23. But when I drag SEO_23 into the "SEO_ALL timeline" I don't get the 'purple' bar but I get 3 'yellow' bars. How can I add SEO_23 into the SEO_ALL timeline so it is a 'purple' bar just like all the other SEO_'s ?

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