Hi,
I've been struggling with this problem for three days now. I hope someone can help me.
A client sent me an After Effects project file containing their composition for a lower third. I need to add this lower third to five interview clips in my Premiere Pro sequence.
My problem is that I cannot work out how to duplicate the composition without losing something.
This is what I've been doing.
1. First I duplicate the composition five times and give each a new name. (Command D, on a Mac)
2. I copy the Name, Title, and all the layers from the original composition and paste onto each new composition.
The problem is that this does not create new compositions that can have different names and titles added. A change to one changes all of them.
Or, if I also duplicate the Names and Titles in the composition, I lose some parts of the animation or other effects and basically have to remake the lower third each time.
Surely I'm doing something wrong.
I'm a complete beginner in After Effects. Obviously. Other it would not be taking three days to add lower thirds.
Any help would be appreciated. I'm so sick of this project that I've decided not to go to bed tonight until their lower thirds are added.
Thanks
Carolyn