How to add frames/move keyframes?

[Roland Werkman]

man, you just saved my ass…
a very big thank you and i will vote for you @ the nobelprices!

[Fabrice Caudoux]

Ben,

Thank you so much !!!!!!!!!!!!

😀

[Brian Monnone]

This is extremely useful. Also, for what it’s worth, I’ve worked in Flash for over 13 years and AE for at least 7. The ability to insert or delete more time between animations is a MUST in multimedia, be it Flash, AE, or any other NLE. It’s ridiculous to me that this feature has not been added after all these years.

I currently have a large AE project with nested comps, tons of keyframes, etc. and must too extend frames based on a client request and I thought surely CS6 must have this feature. The scripts posted above still work for CS6 and is a real time saver.

thanks!

[Jan Schrieber]

Ben, you’re AWESOME!!! This still isn’t a feature in CS6 CC… but thanks to you and your friends…. I can finally do something that should be simple in AE, and that has been in Flash for years.

[Wendell Washer]

How to add frames to the After Effects timeline – In the top menu bar is the menu title “Composition.” Scroll down to “Composition Settings.” At the bottom of this window is the “Duration” text box. You can set the duration in hours, minutes, seconds and frames. For example 1 hour, 23 minutes, 45 seconds and 6 frames would be “1:23:45:06”. You may also open the “Composition Settings” window by using the keyboard shortcut Control-K or Command-K.

[Doland Ruiz]

lmao this entire thread went right over your head.

BEN CHAO, thanks so much for that script! It’s exactly what we need!

I can’t understand how some AE guys on here said it was not necessary. Maybe they don’t use flash so they don’t know what they’re missing? I find myself constantly having to extend time for readability purposes or simply good timing, or my bosses asking me to “make that second text animation last longer”. Instant perspiration lol. Thanks again for the script!

Now I’m going to see how to actually attach F5 to that script to completely get the Flash effect! 🙂

[Filip Vandueren]

Since this thread has come to my attention again.
a few caveats:

The script doesn’t actually move keyframes, it deletes all the keyframes and then makes new ones at a time + the interval.
When it makes new keyframes, it only makes keyframes with the right values. What isn’t copied is the spatial, and temporal information, wether it’s a hold-keyframe, a roving keyframe etc.

for an implementation that does get it right (and has to be pretty complex in doing so) see this script:
https://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_Scooter

First deleting every keyframe before making new ones can lead to the edge-case that when all keyframes of “time-remapping” are deleted, then the time-remapping property disappears, and you can’t add keyframes back to it.

Also scripting chokes on custom_value-keyframes that can’t be expressed as numbers, such as a keyframe of the Curve-or Levels effects.

[Travis Schau]

Thanks Filip, that’s super useful.

I noticed the problem you mention because it sets all my motion path tangents to their default when I run the script, which is a major hassle and makes me avoid using it unless the need is dire. I started to look into fixing the previous script, and quickly realized it was no simple fix and I was out of my depth.

Looking forward to using this!

[Doland Ruiz]

Hmm, I may not be doing it right. Thanks for the script. How do I get it to work as simply as the F5 key or the previous script on this thread? I tried various settings and it seems to move the layers instead of adding frames in between a layer. Or it adds frames at the beginning instead of the insertion point.

[Driss Devadip]

This script is fantastic but it leaves some dirt like the curves of the keyframes after scrubber getting changed (easy-eased keyframes become linear, and some keyframes switch interpolation modes).

If you could improve it to work neatly like MAGIC, put it for sale on Aescripts.com and I’d buy it right away, and I’m obviously not the only one who would (look at the people in this thread), think about it!

Please consider, it is greatly needed! Thank you very much