Is there a way to copy/paste an effect across multiple comps/images?

[andrew00]

Hey,


I'm creating a video from a series of still images, the idea will be to travel through them over time in w/the 3d cam. As the camera passes each image, I want them to fade away, and I've been doing a shatter to do this. I've actually been using this tutorial - http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/design-a-breathtaking-body-shatter-effect/


I've got it working for one of the images, so hurrah for that. However, my question is = is there a way to apply the shattering to each of the images, aka so they each shatter. If I can 'copy/paste' this effect then it'll save me having to manually do it for each image, which'll be a big time saver, esp as I'm not the best at this.


If there isn't a way I'll have to do it manually which'll take a lot of repetitive time!


In the above tutorial there's a lot of comping/precomping so there's essentially multiple layers of stuff going on you see, so it's not a case of just copying the one effect, there's the tree of stuff going on.


Thanks!

 

[Westside71]

If you did not figure this out yet you can click on the effect and the click animation, save preset. Save it to a user defined folder in your animation and presets and then you have an effect you can use over and over. Give it a distinct name so you can recognize it.