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Stupid Question.
Still Video in AFX without exporting a still image and reimporting it. I read how to to it easly with “time remapping” or “Posterize time” but I didn’t use it and can’t remember how to do it. This will save me tons of time, HELP…DEADLINES!
gs
gs
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Just enable Time-remapping to your footage and set a hold keyframe on the frame you want to still and your done.
If you want it to ease in, using the ease keyframes has worked for me in the past as well.
Good luck, gotta love deadlines!
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got it thanks…I just had a bad brain crash, Thanks for the help.
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gs
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Select Layer
Layer > Enable Time ReMapping
Go down the timeline to where you want your still, set a Time remap keyframe
Right Click > Toggle Hold Keyframe
Go down the timeline to where you want the “freeze frame ” to end, set another Time Remap keyframe.
Only problem is, the video after the keyframe you just placed is squished into the remaining time (it plays faster from here to the end to squeeze into the spot).
So you need to lengthen the video by the amount of time between the two keyframes you set (and slide that last time remap keyframe – the one at the end of the clip created when you enabled time remap to the end of the now lengthened clip). Hope that makes sense.This seems like about as slow as Composition > Save Frame As > File (then select “Import” in the Render Queue/Output Module/Post Render Actions, but that’s how you do it.
Goodluck on the deadline.
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There is actually a faster way that doesn’t require you to “squish” anything:
1. Enable Time Remapping.
2. Decide where you want your freeze frame and make a new keyframe.
3. Move forward 1 frame and add another keyframe.
4. Select this new keyframe, then right click on it and choose Select Following Keyframes (this selects the default end keyframe as well)
5. Drag the now selected keyframes to the right.
6. Make the first new keyframe (from step 2) a Hold keyframe.
7. Now the frames between the 2 new keyframes are freeze frames.By selecting the second new keyframe and the default end keyframe and dragging you’re not altering the playback timing.
Oh, and by the way, AE7 has a new Freeze Frame function (LAYER > TIME > FREEZE FRAME).
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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Yes, you’re right, I learned something I should have known. I tested my solution on a clip I drug onto the “Create a New Composition” button, so I had to lengthen the comp and everything, yikes.
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I’ve never done the time-remapping hold frame thing with interlaced video, but in that case would it be wise to do it in a 59.94 comp?
… to avoid the slight motion between frames due to fields …?
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I do it on interlaced video all the time and haven’t had any problems so far (that I’ve noticed anyway).
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au
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