Slow motion with compositions

[Spencer Tweed]

What you are saying is that if you collapse transformations on a pre-comped layer that has time remapping it will basically adjust keyframes instead of interpolating new images? I’ve wondered about this but haven’t had a chance to test it.

– Spencer

[Spencer Tweed]

So you are saying it will just have half of the data to interpolate with?

– Spencer

[Paxson Woelber]

Todd and Dave thank you both for the help. The process worked perfectly, and the nested/precomposed animations were all slowed down correctly. One hurdle down. One more to go:

It looks like the motion blurs were remapped as well, so that when the action slows down the appearance of the motion blurs becomes very pronounced. (All of the motion blurs are added in AfterFX – this is all 2D animation so there is no natural blurring in footage here). Is there any way to keep the motion blurs consistent even when the scene is remapped? Perhaps a way to tween the shutter angle for the composition? My only thought here is to add a motion blur in post-production to the flattened scene, but that seems less than ideal.

I hope I’m articulating this problem clearly, if not please let me know, and thank you both again for the help – I really appreciate it.

[Kevin Camp]

you don’t even have to use collapse transformations, time remapping will recalculate the interpolation between keyframes at a new rate for every keyframed property in the nested comp.

if you wanted to try a quick test, just crate a simple comp with a layer that moves across the screen. choose layer>pre-compose (move all attributes) and then enable time remapping and change the remapping. the layer should move at a different rate, but it should be as smooth as if you have modified the position keyframes.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW