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newbie looking for answers to simple ques.
Ok. Im not that new, just havent worked in A.E. in awhile. Anyways, how do I go about looping a movie in A.E., for example if I did an animation in Maya, and imported it into A.E. how can I get that animation to loop for the entire duration of my composition. Next whats the best way to increase and decrease the speed of a movie, example, if I wanted to speed up just a portion of my Maya animation, how do I go about doing that. A friend of mine told me to use Time Remapping, never heard of it so dont know how to use it. If anybody does, please do tell. I would appreciate the help fellas.
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Make a pre-comp for the loop, and dupe and stagger the layers so that they are end to end. Ctrl-D will dupe the layer, there is also a shortcut wich escapes me at the moment which will jump the new layer to the last frame of the old, making it a speedy process. If it’s a longer loop, start duping multiple layers at a time (Select multiple layers and then Ctrl-D). Make this comp longer than what you need, and then drop this into your animation. You will be able to control it as a single layer, extending or shortening to suit. There may be a way to do this with expressions, also, but that’s not really my thing. This would just be my approach.
Time-remapping is the way to go for speedups and slowdowns, but you need to enable it from your menu. Select the layer and in the layer menu select “Enable tim-remapping”. Now you will have keyframable time controls in your timeline. There will be a keyframe at either end of your layer, and you can drag them closer to speed up, or further away to slow down. Play with it to get a feel.
Hope this helps.
Enzo Tedeschi
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Hi
[erickm] “how can I get that animation to loop for the entire duration of my composition”
You could use the following time remapping expression : time % source.duration
You can also use the loop out expression
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