Daniel Brodesky provides a workflow tip for After Effects with a look at how using the “True Comp Duplicator” for After Effects can save you time when replacing and renaming different components for your After Effects compositions.

In this quick tip I will show you how to use the script True Comp Duplicator Script to effectively duplicate your AE compositions

Daniel also show that True Comp Duplicator can also help clean up your project panel and sort compositions into a new folder for better project organization.

The True Comp Duplicator for After Effects creates a complete duplicate of a composition After Effects, which means that it duplicates the complete comp hierarchy including the nested sub-comps, preserving the arranged folder hierarchy in the projects panel.

If a comp is used multiple times, the composition gets duplicated only once and all the remaining references will point to the original duplicate making life much easier.

Check out the tutorial for Using True Comp Duplicator in After Effects to Copy Comps More Effectively here.