Thanks, I tried that in the first place, but felt that I didnt get the
control over the time as good as with time warp. It kind of worked to
get the “speed – slowmo – speed” effect though I have to admit that
the way keyframes behaved in time warp didnt make sense to me as eventhough I had the exact same keyframes in each and every layer,(both main comp and pre-comp), the layers responded very differently and besides normally, an interpolation between 2 keyframes happens faster when dragging them closer together, here it was slower.
Again, thanx for the pre-comp advise.