• Adobe After Effects

  how to extending a layer (hold first frame)

  Posted by Justin Mettam on April 10, 2009 at 3:08 am

  Hi,
  I feel like this can be done and I am sure I have done it before but I can’t remember how to do it.

  I have a layer that is a precomp and it goes for 80 frames in a 500frame mastercomp. I want to hold the first frame for as long as I need and the also the last frame for as long as I need.

  Is there a way to drag out the beginning of the layer (basically holding the first frame ) Is there a keyboard short cut to do this ?

  Thank you.

  Todd Kopriva replied 17 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Todd Kopriva

  April 10, 2009 at 5:01 am

  There are instructions for time-remapping a layer (in your case a precomposition layer), including freezing a frame and increasing the layer’s duration, in the “Time-remap a layer” section of After Effects Help.

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