Animation Pre-sets
by Jim Ives
on
Jun 22, 2008 at 5:50:28 pm
Hiya!
I really like the Animation presets that come with AE but I'm wondering if there's an easy way to make them longer. I apply one to my floor and it only plays for a short time.
Re: Animation Pre-sets by Mike Clasby on Jun 22, 2008 at 6:19:16 pm
Hit "UU" on the keyboard and it will show all changes made to the layer.
If there are keyframes (most likely) that control the length of the animation, you can drag them farther apart, making it take longer.
If there are expressions, the values are now displayed in red, no longer blue, then double click the parameter (like Position, or Rotation) next to the plus sign then you can read the code. In there will lurk info controlling the length of the animation or what triggers/controls it (often a link to a slider value or maybe keyframes from another layer/effect).
Anyway, open up the animation and see what makes it tick.
If a specific preset gives you trouble, ask about it.
Re: Animation Pre-sets by Mike Clasby on Jun 22, 2008 at 8:21:13 pm
Just curious which preset you're applying to a floor. I was testing on Text Presets so I don't quite know what you're doing, as far as a preset with many keyframes. Just don't want to give you bad advise based on a simple model that might not apply to your preset.
As far as looping you can can use an expression on time remapping. First you need to precompose the layer (Layer>Precompose, move all attributes), then on the precomp, Layer>Enable TimeRemapping and now you get two remapping keyframes, one at the beginning and one at the end. Go to where you want the layer to start repeating and set a time remapping keyframe (click the little box under the eyeball). Go to the end of the layer and Delete the end keyframe.
Now apply a loop expression to Time Remapping (Copy the expression, Alt_click the Time Remapping Stopwatch, Paste):
loopOut()
The layer should now loop eternally from there, well loop as long as the layer is, so you might have to extend it to the right.
If this doesn't work, get specific on what you want to loop.
Re: Animation Pre-sets by Jim Ives on Jun 22, 2008 at 11:18:39 pm
Ok thanks I'll try the expression thing to loop and see how that goes. Im trying to apply one in the backgrounds folder called Apparition. It's pretty neet. Kind of a floating around spookey look.
