Steve Roberts
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Make sure each clip is cut to the loop point — do this in another app, such as a video editing app.
Import a clip into AE and make sure it’s selected in the Project window. Select file>interpret footage>main. At the bottom of the big dialog, you’ll see “loop”. Set this number to the number of times you want the movie to loop. Close the dialog.
To remember this interpretation and apply it to other clips, check the Help for “remember interpretation”.
Drag each of these clips onto the timeline and move them in time where you want them.
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I like using the camera, with auto-orient off. If you like the snappy style of animation, you could set a key for the camera, then make the next key (pos/rot) maybe 3 frames later, as a hold keyframe. Copy that one and paster it later, then make it a non-hold key. Three frames later, make the new key. So it goes AB…BC…CD…DE… and so on. You could add a wiggle expression if you want.
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You can’t pause an entire timeline (comp), but you can pause a layer. To do this, drag the comp into another comp, then go inside that one and apply time remapping (see the help) to pause the layer.
Or, if I understand you, you might just need to pause the camera. To do that, use a hold keyframe. For example: to move from A to B, pause at B, then move from B to C: use a regular keyframe at A, then a hold one at B later on. Copy that keyframe and paste it later in time. Change it to a regular keyframe, then make a keyframe at C later on. Check the Help for “toggle hold keyframe”.
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Hey, whaddaya want fer nothin’? Rrrrrubberrr beeescuit?
🙂
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[Frank Weber] “If you add or delete layers in an Illustrator file, the existing layers distort in AE. “
Oh, yes. That’s always a bad idea.
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Speaking of the Mograph module, I use it whenever I want to make “a bunch of something” in any C4D project … not just motion graphics. It’s indispensable.
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Maxon Cinema 4D. No question. It integrates well with After Effects and allows you to make changes pretty easily, in my opinion.
If you want to stay in AE, you could get the Zaxwerks Invigorator plugin, but I hit the wall pretty quickly with it and went to a 3D app for greater power and flexibility.I went to Lightwave, but found it rather inflexible in a world where clients make changes that ripple through the workflow. Cinema 4D suits me just fine.
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Why don’t you rename the file to the old filename?
(You know not to do that again, eh?) 🙂
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In CS4, double-clicking on an Illy layer in the project window links everything else, if the relationship between files and layers hasn’t changed. Unless I’m mistaken …
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There should be a post on the COW about AE bug reports. I know it might not fix it right away, but you should send a report.
Here. Try this.