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Shaun Ng
November 22, 2015 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Time remap issue – losing rotation animation in a nested element

I think this worked after all! I played with the cloud composition’s graph editor to adjust the rotation and it seems to have paid off. Thanks for the ideas!
Shaun Ng
November 18, 2015 at 4:33 am in reply to: Time remap issue – losing rotation animation in a nested element

Thanks, that’s a great idea! I’ll have to play with it. I’ll let you know how it goes 🙂
Shaun Ng
November 17, 2015 at 5:12 am in reply to: Time remap issue – losing rotation animation in a nested element

It is part of the comp. Here’s the layout:

Zoom Comp:
– Set of google earth images all parented to the first image, each as its own layer in the comp. The scaling property is assigned to the parent only and is set to exponential scale.
– A bunch of noise layers also linked to the parent that act as clouds when zooming out (as per the Video Copilot tutorial).
– Nested comp of the earth slightly rotating (technically affected by the issue I am having but since it rotates so slowly it’s not noticeable). Also parented to the first layer to take on the scaling property.
– Nested comp of atmospheric clouds rotating. Also parented to the first layer. The atmospheric clouds comp only has a rotation set in the CC Sphere property. I was hoping this property would not be affected by the time remap.

Time Remap Comp:
– Contains the Zoom comp with an easy ease set for the beginning and for 6 seconds into the project (at which point the earth is fully zoomed out and rotating). The total length of the project is 10 seconds, so I want an additional 4 seconds of earth and atmosphere rotating.

Sorry for the confusion.
Shaun Ng
November 17, 2015 at 3:22 am in reply to: Time remap issue – losing rotation animation in a nested element

Thanks for the response, but I didn’t have much luck with it. All of the layers are parented to the main layer and scaled exponentially to create the zoom effect. Adjusting each layer changes all of the scales and timing. And I just need the beginning of the zoom and end of the zoom to ease.

I just need to understand why the rotation of the clouds in its own composition is being affected by the time remap. There must be a way to lock the animation within the cloud comp so that anything that’s animated in it is not affected by the remap. Help!
Shaun Ng
November 15, 2015 at 10:31 pm in reply to: I cant open my after effects project 🙁

Windows 8 also has a back up feature called “File History”, which is supposed to work like Mac’s Time Machine (I have a Mac). If you happen to already have this working, then just revert your PC back to before the crash. Otherwise, set up File History for future work. Good luck!