time remap last key, after last frame for comps?

[Todd Kopriva]

This is one of those things that is “wrong” and annoying no matter which way we do it. If we put the last keyframe at the beginning of the last frame, then you can lose a frame of audio or truncate an animation by a frame—or even lose the last field of image information for interlaced material.

We recognize that the dance of needing to move the last keyframe under some circumstances is annoying, and we’re currently working on a more elegant solution that solves this confusion without introducing the problems that we were trying to avoid when implementing it the original way.

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[Andy Engelkemier]

Ha, I didn’t think about audio. I suppose it would be helpful to not eliminate that last 1/nth of a second on that last frame.

I had a script that sort of solved this before, but it was actually wrong. I just had it take the last keyframe and subtract one value. Of course, that adjusted the time slightly, so that’s no good.

I wonder if you could put a preference? I think most 3d animators are going to want it one way, where most video compositors may want it another by default.

Good to know that Adobe’s working on it though.

I’d be happy with some sort of hotkey that just runs a script to do exactly what I’m doing now: Go to out frame, insert key, delete last key.
That way it’d not ruin any data unless I specifically told it to. That might be a good solution until you guys figure out a more elegant one? And it’d also be backward compatible.