Copy the properties of the layer to another layer.

Hi all

first of all, I must say that I am completely new to After Effects. While trying to do a little animation, I encountered a small problem.

I have a text layer with a few properties, keyframes for animation applied etc. Now, I want this text to be replaced by an image. So I was wondering if there is a way to simply copy all the properties of this text layer in my layer from the image.

When I search on the internet, I couldn't find that holding alt and dragging of the (in my case), the image in the project window for my text in the timeline panel layer could be a solution. However, I then get the error: "after effects error: layer does not have a source."

Sorry to ask probably such a stupid problem, but I don't know what to do.

Thanks in advance.

You can copy and paste expressions on a layer, you know.

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