Can i control an individual keyframe value?

[William Marler]

If you create a slider on a control layer, and pick whip the time remap to that slider, the slider value will be equal to the frames of the time remap.

For example, when the slider = 0, time remap will be 0:00:00:00, when the slider = 25, time remap will be 0:00:01:00 (if you work at 25fps).

So connect these two values together with the pick whip and animate the slider going from value 0 to value X. Then by moving the value X keyframe, you are altering where the end frame is placed in the timeline.

Hope this helps.

[Nathan Harald]

i know about that method. This is for a template that i am creating. I am wanting to define ONLY the value of the end frame, i want to try and keep the users out of the comp for simplicity. No timing will be changed in the timeline, just the end value for the keyframe.

[Darby Edelen]

[Nathan Harald] “I have a comp that i want to control using time remap. Animation goes from “Frame 0” to “Frame X”. The animation time doesnt change, just the finishing frame of the remapped comp. Values Only need to go from 1-31 and 1-12″

You could apply something like this to the time remap property. This assumes that the animation is linear between the first and last time remapping keyframe:

startFrame = 0;
endFrame = effect("Last Frame")("Slider");
t1 = key(1).time;
t2 = key(numKeys).time;
startTime = framesToTime(startFrame);
endTime = framesToTime(endFrame);
linear(time, t1, t2, startTime, endTime);

I’d also recommend an expression like this applied to the slider to limit its input to the desired range:

low = 12;
high = 31;
Math.round(Math.max(low, Math.min(high, value)));

Darby Edelen