speeding up a looped layer

[Kevin Camp]

i think i’d probably try this by precomping the layer and adding timewarp to the precomp, then animate the speed property.

if you wanted to play around with an expression, this will create a loop and increase the rate of the loop for a given property. it does assume only 2 keyframes for the property.

rate=.4;
p=key(2).time-key(1).time;
linear((time+Math.exp(time*rate))%p,key(1).time,key(2).time,key(1).value,key(2).value)

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

this expression may be a bit better, the speed ramp isn’t nearly as steep.

rate=1;
p=key(2).time-key(1).time;
linear((time*time*rate)%p,key(1).time,key(2).time,key(1).value,key(2).value)

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

or you could add a slider expression control and keyframe the slider values and get better control of the expression. a value of 1 for the slider would be realtime, 2 would the double the rate, etc…

rate=effect("Slider Control")("Slider");
p=key(2).time-key(1).time;
linear((time*rate)%p,key(1).time,key(2).time,key(1).value,key(2).value)

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Dan Ebberts]

Any time you keyframe a rate for an expression you need to be very careful. If you set the expression up to only look at the current value of the rate control, the expression assumes that the rate has always been at its current value, which clearly will not be the case. A few test cases using the graph editor will show you what kind of chaos can be created. To do it correctly, you really need to integrate the value of the rate control up to the current time, which is only easy to do if you can assume the keyframes are hold or linear.

Dan

[Ismael Millán]

How??

[Dan Ebberts]

This should help:

https://www.motionscript.com/articles/speed-control.html

Dan

[Ismael Millán]

“Dan´s elastic rigging”
(sorry, google translate): Using the expression of Dan Ebberts “elastic” I’m trying to make a soft ik of rabbit ears. When the head that moving the tip of the ears follow it in an secondary animation , but I have problems. I do not know if you can do … Many thanks. I leave the link to the file dropbox. Aep

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14838316/Dan_elastic_Rabbit_ear_secondary_animation.aep

[Olivia Ting]

I tried the Timewarp effect to a looped pre-comp (utilizing expression loopOut(type = “cycle”, numKeyframes = 0)) and it did work on the time control part, but for some reason it would only loop to a certain point and stop. When I turn off the Timewarp effect, the loop runs fine. What gives?