Todd Kopriva
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The timeToFrames method was added in After Effects 6.5.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Dave’s right. Such a huge file is a complete misuse of animated GIF.
One thing that springs to mind is that your browser is having to load the _whole movie_ into its allocate RAM to play.
There’s some information about the limitations of animated GIF in the “Creating an animated GIF movie” section of After Effects Help (including the comments at the end).
Here’s a piece:
“To play an animated GIF file, the web browser first loads the entire file into memory and then plays it from memory (not from disk). To prevent excessive delays before playback begins, and to avoid using too much memory, an animated GIF should have a short duration and a low frame rate. Frame rates of 5 frames per second (or less) are recommended, unless the duration is very short (1 second or so).”
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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If I understand what you’re asking…
Use the loopOut method with the cycle parameter? This will loop an animation through the specified set of keyframes. Just include two identical keyframes at the end of the segment to be looped.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Yes, you can copy and paste properties or groups of properties from one layer to another.
Just select the property or group of properties in the Timeline panel, press Ctrl+C, select the target layer, and press Ctrl+V.
You can do much the same to copy and paste keyframes.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Look in the JavaScript Math part of the expression language menu. There are Math.log and Math.exp methods there.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Did you try the Autoscroll – Vertical animation preset recommended in the “Best practices for creating text” document?
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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I think that maybe Dave was suggesting that this would be a good question for the After Effects Basics forum.
See ya there!
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Yep.
I recently wrote a blog post about rotoscoping in After Effects, in which I explain some of the basics and recommend the Creative COW DVD on the topic by Pete O’Connell.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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CC RepeTile may be worth looking at, too.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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The Beam effect is a good place to start.
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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