Answers.Body: <p>What you need to do is:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>clone the layer, </li>
  <li>right click and choose <strong>View Layer Source in Project</strong>, </li>
  <li>duplicate the source in the project window, and finally </li>
  <li><kbd>alt/option</kbd>-drag the new source on to the (selected) cloned layer to change its source.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>If this is too tedious, I've <a href="http://blob.pureandapplied.com.au/the-cloninator/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">written a script</a> that will clone the layer and create a  unique source for it in one step (it can also recursively clone all the source layers in compositions if need be). There's also a pay-what-you-want script called <a href="http://aescripts.com/true-comp-duplicator/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">true-comp-duplicator</a> on aescripts.com that will do the same job.</p>
  
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Body: <p>So, I have this composition with an animated letter. Each letter is a different composition. To save me some work I duplicate the repeating letters. However I want to change the colour of one letter all of the repeated letters get the same colour. How can I disconnect in some way the duplicate compositions from the original? Thank you!</p>
  
  <p>P.S. I'm newb</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Are you asking how can you connect all the layers with the same letter together so if you change the color in one they all change?
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Comments.Text: I think he's asking how to do the opposite. Clone a layer, but make it have a new source.
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Comments.Text: I want the layers to be independent of each other but with the same content.
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Title: How to give different colors to duplicate composition in after effects?
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ThreadText: # How to give different colors to duplicate composition in after effects?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-09)
  
  So, I have this composition with an animated letter. Each letter is a different composition. To save me some work I duplicate the repeating letters. However I want to change the colour of one letter all of the repeated letters get the same colour. How can I disconnect in some way the duplicate compositions from the original? Thank you!
  
  P.S. I'm newb
  
  **Tags:** color
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Are you asking how can you connect all the layers with the same letter together so if you change the color in one they all change?  
  > **username_2**: I think he's asking how to do the opposite. Clone a layer, but make it have a new source.  
  > **username_0**: I want the layers to be independent of each other but with the same content.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-01-11. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
  
  What you need to do is:
  
  1. clone the layer,
  2. right click and choose **View Layer Source in Project**,
  3. duplicate the source in the project window, and finally
  4. `alt/option`-drag the new source on to the (selected) cloned layer to change its source.
  
  If this is too tedious, I've [written a script](http://blob.pureandapplied.com.au/the-cloninator/) username_0 will clone the layer and create a unique source for it in one step (it can also recursively clone all the source layers in compositions if need be). There's also a pay-what-you-want script called [true-comp-duplicator](http://aescripts.com/true-comp-duplicator/) on aescripts.com username_0 will do the same job.
  
  
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