random freeze frame time remapping

[Dan Ebberts]

>Is that wrong?

Yes. Just disable time remapping and re-enable it and everything should be fine.

Dan

P.S. — You’ll need to re-apply the expression as well.

[S.j. Deluise]

Ok, Time-remap reapplied without the held keyframe, as well as expression.
Still something wrong. Maybe it’s my precomp?
It’s 23-frames long, with 23 one-frame images sequenced.

[Dan Ebberts]

Have you left the keyframes untouched, but extended the length of the layer?

Dan

[Dan Ebberts]

try changing the last line of the expression to this:

freezeTime = random(inPoint,key(2).time – thisComp.frameDuration)

Dan

[S.j. Deluise]

Yes, exactly that.
But I just noticed something, a possible clue. If I don’t extend the length of the layer, it’s working. I even changed ‘freezeFrames’ to 6 and the speed is changing, which is good.

But once I extend the layer, it stops randomizing. The time remap value is predominantly :22 (the last frame of the precomp) and it shows no image, just empty.

[Dan Ebberts]

Sorry, my previous post was out of sequence. Maybe you missed this:

try changing the last line of the expression to this:

freezeTime = random(inPoint,key(2).time – thisComp.frameDuration)

Dan

[S.j. Deluise]

Ahhh, I did miss it, and that was indeed the magic ingredient.
I tip my hat to your brilliance and assistance. Thanks so much, this works like a charm.

freezeFrames = 3;
seed = Math.floor((time – inPoint)/framesToTime(freezeFrames));
seedRandom(seed,true);
freezeTime = random(inPoint,key(2).time – thisComp.frameDuration)