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time freeze for compositions – can it work?
I am not sure if this can work….
I have several 20 second comps in a larger 2 minute comp (animated photo album pages). I would like each 20 second album page comp to freeze it’s final frame so I can simulate a page turn through rotation to the next page. At the end of the 2 minute comp which controls all the 20 second page comps I want to flip all the pages quickly back so it looks like the pages of the photo album are are closeing, returning to only the album cover.
I have tried to time freeze the 20 second page comps from within the 2 minute album comp but it doesn’t seem to work for the final pages flips. I can solve this by making all the layers within each 20 second comp to be the same duration as my full 2 minute comp but this seems like a unwieldly solution. If I wanted to lengthen or shorten the project I would have to change the duration of each of the layers in each short comp.
Does time remapping not work on compositions the same way as it would a layer?
The help information from what I can gather only ever references time remapping a layer, not a composition.
Hopeful of some advice!
James Hooey
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[james hooey] “I have tried to time freeze the 20 second page comps from within the 2 minute album comp but it doesn’t seem to work for the final pages flips. I can solve this by making all the layers within each 20 second comp to be the same duration as my full 2 minute comp but this seems like a unwieldly solution. If I wanted to lengthen or shorten the project I would have to change the duration of each of the layers in each short comp.”
This sounds quite right. And Time Remapping layers and compositions are similar.
HTH
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Double check that the frame your last TR keyframe is on is in fact the last frame of the comp. Usually, when you make a new comp, the last frame that TR automatically sets to is an empty frame. To fix this, drop down the TR property of the layer (in this case it would be a comp), go to the last keyframe, hit page up, add a keyframe, select the last keyframe and delete it. It sounds to me like this could resolve your problem.
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