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After Effects timeline issue

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November 22, 2021
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Hello,

I am having some trouble with extending my whole animation to the full duration of my timeline. As you can see from the photos, I am only able to extend certain parts of my animation. Other parts are stuck in place, with no ability to drag and extend to the full time (1:00). If anyone has any tips on this I would be very grateful

Thank you!

Abigail

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Abigail2188822864inAuthor

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Hello again,

I have taken everyone's suggestions and changed the composition settings on all of my individual layers to 1:00 minute. That is still not changing the issue. If anyone else has any suggestions, please let me know. I have to finish this today, was chatting with someone from Adobe last night for 4 hours and they couldn't help me and then they scheduled a call for me and no one ever called. I really need to figure out how to get the individual layers in my precomp to extend beyond 1 second and go to a minute. The "freeze on last frame" don't work because it just starts freezing after 1 second.

Please, if anyone has any other suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. As you can see from the attached photos, after a second the composition disappears completely.

thepixelsmith

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Take a screen shot of the Right Arm Composition (timeline) and post that please.

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Abigail2188822864inAuthor

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Okay. Here it is. Thank you for your help!

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Abigail2188822864inAuthor

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And does anyone know anything about scrunched up key frames? Please see attached photo. If anyone knows why this might have happened I would be very grateful!

We are also sill losing almost the whole figure (except for one layer) even after the compistion settings have been adjusted and each layer has been extended to 1:00 minute (please see second photo). Any thoughts would be grately appreciated.

Abigail

thepixelsmith

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The keyframes aren't scrunched up. You are zoomed out in the Timeilne view.

When you zoom in on the timeline, you can see the space between the keyframes. You can either press the "+" and "-" keys on your keyboard or use the Zoom In/Zoom Out slider at the bottom of the timeline, the icon looks like a small and a larger mountain.

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Abigail2188822864inAuthor

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Hi,

Thank you for your help. I did zoom in and I stretched them out. I am still having a lot of trouble with getting my animation to stay on screen longer than 1 second, even with going into each indvidual layer, changing the composition settings and stretching it out to 1:00 minute. Please see attached photos and let me know what I can do. I have tried all the suggestions given to me so far including the freeze on last frame suggestion and I can't get this animation to last longer than 1 second. I would appreciate any help.

Abigail

Jose Panadero

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It looks like you have groups layer inside your PSD file. This is why you have some precomps with limited duration. You can do a couple of things:

1.- Lengthen the compositions (enetring into all precomps and change the composition duration in Composition > Composition settings.

2.- Select all the precomp layers and go to Layer > Time > Freeze on last frame.

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Abigail2188822864inAuthor

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Hello!

Thank you for this suggestion! I tried it and my was able to extend each layer to 1:00 but the animation is still cutting off after about 1 second, even though I have changed each layer of the pre-comp to 1:00 minute. I also tired selecting all the precomp layers but that didn't make a difference, as far as I can see! Please see attached screenshots where you can see that only one part of my animation remains after the first second.

Thank you for any further assistance! Grateful for any suggestions you may have.

Abigail

Jose Panadero

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You must extend the layers once you have changed the composition duration. If not, layers will remain at their original duration.

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defaultyanftc2iehlj

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Your pre-comps are set for 1 second, just go into each pre-comp and make the sequence longer in the sequence settings and you are good to go.

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Abigail2188822864inAuthor

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Hello!

Thank you for this suggestion! I tried it and my was able to extend each layer to 1:00 but the animation is still cutting off after about 1 second, even though I have changed each layer of the pre-comp to 1:00 minute. Please see attached screenshot where you can see that only one part of my animation remains after the first second.

Thank you for any further assistance! I am really grateful!

Abigail

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defaultyanftc2iehlj

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Hello,

All you need to do is go back into each pre-comp and extend those layers you have in each pre-comp.

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