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October 5, 2009
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Is there a way to copy attributes from one composition to another?

  • October 5, 2009
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I'm using After Effects 7.0

I'd like to copy the same Zoom attributes from one composition to 30 photographs.

In Final Cut, you can copy attributes from one clip to another. Or from one still photo to another.

Is there a way to do that in AE 7?

Thanx

Mike

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    Correct answer Rick Gerard

    There are dozens of ways you can go here. You can duplicate the comp then replace the footage in the comp. You can create animation presets. You can select all of the animated properties and copy them and then paste into another layer. It all depends on your workflow.

    I would suggest you look into animation presets. I have more than 200 custom ones in my system. They save a ton of time.

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    October 5, 2009

    What do you mean by zoom? Scale? If so, you can just select the Scale property from the layer you want, copy and then select all other 30 layers and paste. If there were any keyframes in the original layer's Scale property, they will be pasted from the current time.

    From CS3 onwards, you can also copy whole top level property groups (for example, the whole "Transform" property group) and paste it to other layers.

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    April 8, 2016

    Thank you so much! I've been searching for the answer to this for a long time. I don't know how I didn't think of copy pasting the Transform settings since it works perfectly with the Effects :X. Thanks