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  • Layer length fixed, can’t extend it anymore

    Posted by Dennis Dillert on May 25, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    I sequenced my pre-composed layers and all of a sudden I can’t extend the individual layers in the timeline anymore. The layer bar also has a small arrow in the upper right and left corner.

    I know this must be something terribly simple, but I simply don’t know what to search for..

    Dennis Dillert replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Simon Bonner

    May 26, 2009 at 12:02 am

    Hi Denis,

    You might need to go into your precomps and extend them there first.

    Simon Bonner

    youtube.com/simonsaysfx

  • Dennis Dillert

    May 26, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Here’s what went wrong:

    I had two animated pre-comps. I thought because they are both animated, they would be somewhat identical. However, a closer look revealed that one of them had the animation nested into another pre-comp that it just loaded. This one would show no arrows in the main comp and you could extend it forever. The second pre-comp had the animation inserted directly, so there would obviously be a limit to how far you could extend it unless you where using Time-Remapping.

    Well I guess, I’ve been a bit tired yesterday.. ;o)

    Anyway, thanks again Simon!!

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