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This is seriously making me crazy (loop expression)
I couldn’t possibly try to do anything simpler. I made a composition of a pac-man opening and closing its mouth in CS4. I want to animate its position while its mouth opens and closes. So I dropped the comp into another comp and am now trying to loop it.
The loop expression appears to do nothing. I can’t make any sense of any of the tutorials or the Adobe manual.
It is literally 11 frames long and I just want it to chomp as I move it through 3d space. What am I missing?
Thanks!
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6 Replies
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Make sure your precomp is only as long as your animation. Enable time remapping for the precomp layer. Set a time remapping keyframe one frame before the last one that AE creates. Set the value of the last keyframe to zero. Extend the duration of the precomp layer as necessary. Add this expression:
loopOut()
Dan
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If all those steps seems like alot of work you can also try my new script: The LoopMaker™
Lloyd
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Dan – I tried this with an audio clip – the loop itself works fine but i’m getting an audio hiccup at each ‘rewind’ – any clues?
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Ah yes I’ve run into that one before. One of the Adobe guys explained to me that what you’re hearing is the audio rewinding over a one-frame period. What I’ve done in the past is create a one-frame squelch expression on the audio level to suppress the glitch. As I recall, looking at the waveform was helpful in fine-tuning it. The result was OK, but not altogether satisfying.
Dan
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ok dan thnx, you da man
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