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  • Freeze a single frame and stretch it?

    Posted by Sean Winn on June 16, 2011 at 11:08 pm

    Hi, pulling a little hair out here, and finding nothing online. There has to be a simple way to freeze a frame at the end of a clip/layer and stretch that frame under/over another layer.

    Messed around with remapping, time stretch, etc, and can’t get anything to work…it just messes the layer up that I’m trying to get to ‘hold’ at it’s end.

    Is there a fairly easy way to do this?

    Thanks for any help
    Sean

    Juttah Titor replied 13 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Sean Winn

    June 17, 2011 at 12:30 am

    Finally figured it out…

  • Michael Szalapski

    June 22, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    For anyone searching the forums who stumbles across this and wonders how it’s done:
    Apply time remapping to your layer, then extend the layer’s end point.

    – The Great Szalam
    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)

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  • Jack Mosher

    June 23, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    I’ve had success rendering out a Photoshop still of the frame in question, and re-importing it as footage. Then I can adjust the in/out/duration of the freeze frame as needed. It’s a trick I stole from Final Cut Pro.

    Michael Szalapski’s response seems to be the best, most efficient way from within AE.

  • Juttah Titor

    November 11, 2012 at 12:23 am

    >Finally figured it out…

    Ok asshole, what was it?

    (Thank you Michael Szalapski, I can’t stand it when OPs pull crap like this.)

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