Control keyframes with marker

[Walter Soyka]

There might be easier/better ways to approach this. Can you share a screenshot or an AEP with the keyframes you’re trying to automate so we can get a better sense of what exactly needs to happen?

[Henri Yates]

Here’s a screenshot please….

[Walter Soyka]

If you were to precompose that, you could use a protected region to keep your animation together at the end of the clip so you’d only have to drag the end of the comp out.

When you have a protected region on one comp that’s nested into another, dragging the handles at the beginning or end of the layer does an automatic time stretch instead of a trim — but any protected regions are preserved.

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/responsive-design.html

Failing that, applying this expression to every keyframed property should have them start their animations at the time of the first marker on the layer, then run straight through:

try {
	if (time >= thisLayer.marker.key(1).time) {
		thisProperty.valueAtTime(thisProperty.key(1).time + time - thisLayer.marker.key(1).time);
	} else {
		valueAtTime(thisProperty.key(1).time);
	}	
} catch (err) {
	value;
}

[Henri Yates]

Thanks

I will try it out