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True layer duplicator

True layer duplicator

- [Instructor] Welcome to After Effects Weekly. Welcome to After Effects Weekly. Welcome to After Effects Weekly. Okay, enough with that. We get it but did you get it? I was repeating myself for a reason because this time, I want to show you what happens when you duplicate a comp in After Effects to make another version, and also offer a free solution that will save you so much time. So first, let's see the problem. I have a snippet from a trailer or a promo made by Promotheus. So I'm just going to preview this. Some sort of a free VOD service coming soon. And let's say that we want to create another version, which is going to say instead of coming soon, tomorrow. So obviously, I have this text comp, which hosts all the ingredients that I need to modify. What I can do is press Command or Control + D to duplicate this composition. And double click on it, and of course, I can change it to say something else. So…

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