True Layer Duplicator script for After Effects

True Layer Duplicator is a Powerful and Free Script that Duplicates a Comp hierarchy including subcomps for Layers and Comps.

It resembles True Comp Duplicator Just with a Twist- It works on Comp Based Layers!

This tool will duplicate all selected layers but will also duplicate the inner Hierarchy of the layers.

This will save you the time of manually duplicating and replacing the relevant layers (with or without TrueComp duplicator), while keeping the changes made to the original layer.

The installation is pretty straight forward and with a few steps you can set a Shortcut to launch the script as a regular command (Ctrl+Alt+D on PC / Alt+D on Mac).  Watch the Tutorial

Enjoy!

download True-Layer-Duplicator v1.4

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Installation:

1. Extract the True Layer Duplicator.jsxbin for the Zip file and place it in the Scripts folder:
   • PC: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe After Effects ##\Support Files\Scripts\ 
   • Mac: Applications/Adobe After Effects ##\Scripts\
2. Restart After Effects.

Setting the Keyboard Shortcut (CC2018 or Above)

1. Open the Keyboard Shortcuts window from Edit Menu. (CC2018 or Above*)
2.  Search for “dup” in the search field (figure #1), click the empty shortcut box right to the True Layer Duplicator.jsxbin and press Ctrl+Alt+D on the keyboard (Alt+D on Mac)(figure #2) and press OK to confirm.

Creating the Ctrl+Alt+D Shortcut (CC2017 or Below)

• Use aeScripts Guide “How to use a keyboard shortcut to run a script” (if that’s your first Script you add it’ll be number 12)
• Your Adobe “After Effects XX.x Shortcuts.txt” file should look something like this and your “File->Scripts” menu should look like this.

Usage:

Select a Comp Based Layer in the Timeline and press Ctrl+Alt+D (Alt+D on Mac) Watch the Tutorial

** Original image by Marco Verch

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Release Log:

True Layer Duplicator v1.4.2 – 23/05/2019

• Preferences alert for specific users

True Layer Duplicator v1.4.1 – 15/05/2019

• Site Link improvement

True Layer Duplicator v1.4 – 19/04/2019

• A new and improved Selective duplication algorithm
• Duplicated Project’s panel Comps as well!
• New comps are now in the origin parent folder
• Duplicate multiple Layers/Comps (Just select and press the shortcut)
• A new duplication summery window

True Layer Duplicator v1.2 – 31/12/2018

• Algorithm improvement (Selective Duplication of nested comps)
• Minor Bug Fixes

True Layer Duplicator v1.1 – 31/11/2018

• Progress Bar Added
• Minor Bug Fix

True Layer Duplicator v1.0 – 31/10/2018

• Initial Release

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