• Adobe After Effects

  Don’t know how to put this shortly?

  Posted by Guitarjam on August 30, 2006 at 8:12 am

  In After Effects I have a 10 second compostion with 10 layers. after 5 seconds goes through I want all the animation to stop except 2 of the layers. I just want the 2 layers to animate the whole 10 seconds and the ones that stopped at 5 seconds to still show up all the way through to the 10 second marker but stay the same way they were at the 5 second marker.

  I originaly started the comp as a 5 second animation but I decided I wanted 2 of the elements/layers to go for 10 seconds and so I added the 2 new layers to the comp and they go all th eway to the 10 second marker but the rest of the layers I made in the comp only go to 5 seconds, so I want those layers that stop at 5 seconds to be stopped there but still show up all the way through to the 10 second marker.

  I know it sounds like a math problem – sorry, it’s the only way I know how to explain it.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks in advance.

  Guitarjam replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jimmy Brunger

  August 30, 2006 at 9:10 am

  How about (presuming these are all stills brought in a animated in AFX?) you re-import the still layers you want to extend into your project and set “import sill as length of composition” then copy and paste your keyframes from the 5sec layers to the new ones? Or I think you could just duplicate your 5 sec layers, then time-stretch your duplicates and then paste the KFs onto them from the 5sec originals.

  Some one will probably come along any minute and say “you push THAT button”!
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  Aronduby

  August 30, 2006 at 2:29 pm

  this is as close to a “push that button” answer I can think of

  enable time-remapping on all the layers you want to stop. I believe its under layer menu, and I think you can find it by right clicking on the layer name. Once time-remapping is enabled move your cursor to where you want everything to stop and make a keyframe and then convert it to a hold keyframe. You’ll probably need to precompose the layer(s) you want to stop and then do time-remapping on the precomp.
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  Guitarjam

  August 30, 2006 at 3:38 pm

  Thanks for your quick responses but I figured out an esier way to do it – I just dragged the layers that only went to 5 seconds to to the end of my comp, they were already keyframed so it didn’t matter. I didn’t know you could drag the layers out to wherever you want. I had to time remap the text layer though becuase for some reason it wouldn’t drag to then end of my comp or even a budge.

  I’m a real noob here at after effects.

  Thanks a lot for your help!
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  Guitarjam

  August 30, 2006 at 5:34 pm

  Thank you – I was wondering why I couldn’t get answers I wanted. I was starting to think everyone was new here.

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