Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #48249
From: Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] Replace PSD footage easily?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:11:46 -0400
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>, Anders Sundstedt <sundstedt@hotmail.com>
You could also just import the psd as a composition as opposed to footage. Create duplicate copies of that comp and have select layers turned on or off for each copy within each composition. 

On Tuesday, March 26, 2013, Anders Sundstedt wrote:
Hi,
 
I often need multiple versions of a .PSD file, for example a character to be used in an animation, may need different clothes and hair styles, these PSD files have many layers.

I need to use the same AE project, I only want to swap the PSD, let’s say for example a different version of the PSD for each scene (one AE project file for each scene).

Is there an easy way to do this without a lot of hassle, not having to rename the original PSD and having to replace it every time for each time I work on an AE project?

I would like to know about a solution that does not require making another copy of the project etc.

I have read in older ae-list posts about for example exporting and search/replace in an XML file, but there must be a better way?

Thanks
 


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