Stagger Frames

[Richard Harrington]

Look at your KEyframe Assistants liek Wiggle

or Motion Sketch

[Richard Harrington]

Also you can select all the keyframes

then hold the Command Key (CTRL) and drag the last one… this will do an “accordion” stretch

[Kevin Camp]

Select the layers to be sequenced, in the order that you want them to be sequenced. then choose animation>keyframe assistant>sequence layers. you can set overlap duration and cross disolve parameters if needed…

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Dwayne Neckles]

Hmm I tried this but perhaps I was doing something wrong. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[Kevin Camp]

it may be that the frame durations are the length of the comp. ae has a setting for duration of imported still images, they can be a set length (like 5 seconds) or set to use the duration of the last comp that was created.

you can trim the length of all the images at once by selecting the layers, position the time cursor to the point you want to trim them and then pressing Alt+] (Windows) or Option+] (Mac OS).

then you should be able to sequence the layers with the keyframe assistant.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW