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Inspiring
August 25, 2026
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Time remapping with a layer's last frame is highly unintuitve

  • August 25, 2026
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Reporting this as a bug since I can’t see that’s it’s a “feature” or has any use whatsoever.

 

Enabling time remapping on a layer automatically places a keyframe at the in and out points of a layer. Great.

 

Except that the keyframe at the END of the layer apparently does NOT hold the last frame when that layer is extended in time -- simply dragging out the out point of the layer means you will get empty black frames. In order to FREEZE the final frame of a layer, such as for a hold, it’s necessary to step one frame back, set ANOTHER keyframe, then delete the auto created one. Then dragging the layer out will hold the final frame as expected.

 

I’ve never, ever had a scenario in 25 years of work in animation where I’ve wanted a time remapped layer to behave the way that it does by default, and it becomes tedious having to deal with this over and over, and sometimes even gets overlooked then resulting in headscratching as to why, e.g., a precomped layer that’s been time remapped upsteam then shows black when you are expecting a hold frame.

 

Please fix this, it’s been around as long as I’ve been using AE which is a very long time indeed.

3 replies

Community Manager
August 26, 2026

Hi there,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. What you're describing is longstanding Time Remapping behavior in After Effects. The automatically generated keyframe at the layer's out point occurs after the final visible frame, which is why extending the layer doesn't automatically hold that last frame.


I understand your point, though: for workflows where you're extending a time-remapped layer, having the last visible frame hold by default would be much more convenient than having to create another keyframe one frame earlier.


Since this is existing behavior rather than a new regression, would you mind if I move this to the Feature Requests section so the team can consider the proposed change and other users can vote on it?


Thanks,
Kevin

Steve5D7CAuthor
Inspiring
August 26, 2026

Please feel free to do whatever you like with this post if it will expedite or facilitate something being done to change this highly useless default behavior! Thanks.

Nishu Kushwaha
Community Manager
Community Manager
August 26, 2026

Moving it to the feature requests section so that others can vote.

Thanks for reporting.

 

Best,

Nishu