• Adobe After Effects

  Head and tail for layer comps

  Posted by Todd Morgan on November 26, 2014 at 3:25 pm

  I currently use enable time remapping to extend a layer’s head and tail, but is there an easier way to do this? What would be nice is if we can add head and tail and it appears in a lighter colour that the comp, so we can see where the actual comp starts/stops within that extended section.

  Thanks!

  Todd

  Walter Soyka replied 11 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  November 26, 2014 at 7:01 pm

  Rather than time-remap the entire layer, I’d duplicate the layer once for the head and again for the tail, then position the CTI and use Layer > Time > Freeze Frame to create “holds.” Adjust the layer timing to the head ends right before the regular layer begins and the tail begins right after the regular layer ends.

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