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Stopping a loopOut() expression at a certain frame
Hello Creative Cow community,
I’m working at the moment on a train animation in After Effects.
So I looped the rails and stuff with the “loopOut()” expression.
(I looped them because I don’t wanted a 5000000 pixel long comp lol)What I want to do is that the loop stops, at e.g., 2000 frames smoothly (easy-ease).
I tried to use the freeze-frame effect, but it won’t work and keeps looping.
Taking a screenshot of the comp and put it on the place where the loop should stop works, but it’s too abrupt.
I also tried the solution from there -> https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=227&postid=20810&univpostid=20810&pview=t
But it won’t work for me.Can anyone help me please?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel
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>I also tried the solution from there -> https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=227&postid=20810&univpostid=20810&pview=t
Well that quite an elegant solution, which in your case I guess will look smth like that:
t = timeToFrames(2000);
fadeTime = 1;
ease(time,t,t+fadeTime,loopOut(),value)
I would suggest to try to figure out why it doesn’t work in your case, but anyway you can always go rigth-click on looped-out property -> Keyframe Assistant -> Convert Expression to Keyframes and do all the things manually. -
t = timeToFrames(2000);
fadeTime = 1;
ease(time,t,t+fadeTime,loopOut(),value)The conversion is backwards: timeToFrames should be framesToTime
t = framesToTime(2000);
fadeTime = 1;
ease(time,t,t+fadeTime,loopOut(),value)
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