timeline comp adjustment

[Joey Foreman]

Grab the layer in the middle, not the end handle. The handles only move if there’s content to reveal, and if the layer starts at the beginning of its associated comp, you have no more frames available.
Also make sure you didn’t accidentally lock the layer.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Animator
Nowhere Productions, Athens, GA

[Laurel Stalla]

Ahh, still won’t budge. I checked all three comps and each one starts at frame 0. None of them are longer than the time set in the main comp. (3 min Main comp, comp 1 – 1 min, comp 2 – 1 min, comp 3 30 secs.)

I checked every layer in every comp and none are locked up. I can see an icon and 4 faded vertical lines when I grab it in the center of any of the comps. It just won’t move. I just created a new main comp but none of my layers want to move.

Sorry to ask for more help, but…Help!! (please)

[Laurel Stalla]

Okay this is weird. I simply walked away from the computer for a minute. When I came back I tried to move my comps and everyone of them moved.

Maybe my computer was being really slow or something. I swear I didn’t do anything and now it works the way it should.

Regardless, thanks for helping me. I’m sure I’ll be back with more questions soon : )

[Kevin Camp]

if you haven’t already, try rebooting… whenever ae acts in an unexplainable way, rebooting often helps…

also moving the ‘adobe after effects 8.0 prefs’ file to the desktop, or even the entire folder (named ‘8.0’) that contains that preference file to the desktop may help if rebooting doesn’t.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Laurel Stalla]

Thanks, It is working now.
It must be a self healing computer.

I need to reboot more often. Thanks for reminding me.

[Chris Wright]

at 1 View, change to 4 view, that will literally make comps all have there own lil world. Let’s see AE screw that up!

[Laurel Stalla]

Thanks, the 4 views is a good idea.
I hate to admit this but what magically made it work was that I hit the ‘draft’ button. I didn’t realize that’s what I did to fix it until later.
Once I did that, it has been smooth sailing. (doh!)