• Adobe After Effects

  How should I deal with new sections within a animation which leads to the need of adjusting already existing layers, keyframes and compositions before the addition?

  Posted by Nils Moody on October 25, 2017 at 12:07 pm

  Oh boy, I’m so sorry for the titlegore! I don’t really know how I should phrase this…

  So basically… I’ve made an animation but a customer/the boss wants me to add something within the animation. Like a new section within the animation which makes the maincomp longer and delays a lot of other layers and keyframes after that. Or a simple pause in the animation to adjust the whole flow of it. Now I need to carefully select the right keyframes, layers etc. and have to move them a certain amount of frames in order to create the room for it. Or need to adjust comp and pre-comp lengths etc. The work is very tedious and time-consuming.

  The only work-around for this I know, and only for an additional pause within the animation, is to add freezeframes in Premiere or pre-comp the whole project within AE and add freeze frames to that.

  Isn’t there an easier way to do that? How can I prevent to do something like this?

  I hope you guys understand what I’m talking about.

  Walter Soyka replied 8 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Sebastian Rasche

  October 25, 2017 at 12:36 pm

  Not 100% sure but this script might come in handy: https://aescripts.com/elastic-comp-changer/
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  Nils Moody

  October 25, 2017 at 5:02 pm

  Both replies have been very useful. Thank you very much!

  ButI wonder if there are even more techniques around for this. Both aren’t perfect but I guess this is just a general downside of AE right now.
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  Walter Soyka

  October 25, 2017 at 8:21 pm

  [Nils Moody] “ButI wonder if there are even more techniques around for this. Both aren’t perfect but I guess this is just a general downside of AE right now.”

  Unfortunately, the “elbow grease” technique is the most reliable solution.

  Retiming becomes incredibly complicated with precomps, time-remapping, etc. This is a very hard problem to solve programmatically in the general case.

  Walter Soyka
  Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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