• Adobe After Effects

  Playing a long comp into a shorter comp

  Posted by Cris Fog on November 18, 2013 at 5:26 pm

  I want to play a full 15sec composition that is in a 3sec composition duplicated multiple times.

  In Comp1 : 15sec are BLOCK 3sec duplicated 5 times (fozen 2 times at 1st frame)
  in every BLOCK 3sec is a STAR 15sec composition.

  When I play Comp1, the STAR composition stops after 3 seconds (when the BLOCK stops too).

  I want the STAR composition to play full 15second. Meaning STARs curentFrame must be = Comp1 currentFrame regardless of which BLOCK 3sec is playing.

  I attached an example. (.aep CS6): https://www.razor3ds.com/ftp/test.aep
  Here is the video: https://youtu.be/MWBJLf-nVJQ

  Note that this is a simplified version of whan I am currently working on, so STAR 15sec must stay within BLOCK 3sec.
  (BLOCK is a mobile phone and STAR is the phones screen)

  I am sure the solution is easy. Just an expresion to STAR 15sec to play in paralel with Comp1 or something. But I can’t find anything and don’t really know what keywords to search to be honest.

  Thanks

  George Goodman replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  George Goodman

  November 19, 2013 at 3:36 pm

  Enable time remapping and then use this expression:

  loopOut(type = “pingpong”, numKeyframes = 0)

  Then simply extend the comp for as long as you would like it to run.

  This expression will tell AE to bounce between the 2 keyframes that were automatically placed as soon as you enabled time remapping.

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