Cuting a frame out of an image sequence

[Fabiano Peres]

Select the point you want, press Crtl+Shift+D it will slpit the layer in two, then go to the second one and trim it. But of course if you have a lot of frames to cut, Premiere is the best option.

I holp it helps.

[Mike Clasby]

You want to Edit>Extract Work Area

Details from Searching “Cut Frame” in AE Help gives this (the bottom part is what you want):

Removing a section of a layer

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Remove a portion from the middle of one or more layers from the Timeline using the following two methods:

Lifting removes a section from the layers and leaves a gap of the same duration as the section you remove.
Extracting removes a section from the layers and closes the resulting gap by ripple deletion.

To remove a section and leave a gap in time (lift):

In the Timeline window, adjust the work area to include only the portion of the layer or layers that you want to remove:
Move the time indicator to the time at which you want the work area to begin and press B on your keyboard.
Move the time indicator to the point where you want the work area to end, and press N.
Select the layers you want to remove a section from or turn on the lock switch for any layers you do not want affected by the extraction.

Choose Edit > Lift Work Area to remove the section from all unlocked layers.

To remove a section and close the resulting gap (extract):

Follow steps 1 and 2 of the procedure for lifting (above).
Choose Edit > Extract Work Area.

PS. I’m glad you asked the question, I’d been wondering how to do that to, just hadn’t gotten around to looking it up.

[Miles Blow]

thanks guys
Ill give that a go tonight!

[Miles Blow]

Hi guys
I tried those techniques and they work. But is there any way of cutting out a few frames from a image sequence without creating a new layer each time? If you needed to do 20cuts in one shot you would end up with 20 layers. There reason being to keep things abit neater in very complex projects.

thanks
Miles