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  • Duplicating layers with an automatic offset for each copy…

    Posted by Sebastian Melmott on December 14, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    Isn’t there a smart way to copy an existing layer eg… 24 times giving each layer an offset in time of, say… 3 seconds without copying (CTRL+D) then dragging each layer along the timeline …?

    Moooooooo….!

    John Cuevas replied 15 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    December 14, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    keyframe assistant will sequence layers and has an option for ‘overlap’..

    that’s a bit different than offset, in that the if your layers were 30sec long and you wanted a 3sec offset, you’d set the overlap to 27sec.

    the other problem could be that your layers are shorter than 3sec, then overlap would not work.

    you might also search for a script that would do this: aenhancers.com, aescritps.com and/or crgreen.com/aescripts/ would be good places to look.

    Kevin Camp
    Senior Designer
    KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • John Cuevas

    December 14, 2010 at 9:23 pm

    Pretty sure you have to keep pressing “cntl-d”, but head over to videocopilot.net. In one of the tutorials he created a script that does exactly what you want, he calls it the “sequencer”(Tutorial 103 has it), very handy.

    Johnny Cuevas, Editor

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