Pressed some kind of keyboard shortcut, now all of my layers are in a negative timestamp.

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July 11, 2021
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So as the title says, I pressed something and my layers decided to go poof. I still see them on the left hand side, but when I go to them, I see a negative time stamp. I tried composing them, and bringing them to me, but the lengths and everything was all messed up. Super lost here, and really sad cause this'd suck to lose.

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(This is what it's like before I fix the timestamp)

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Rick Gerard

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You have moved the CTI (time indicator to -31 minutes. Your comp is set to begin at 31 minutes. The comp is also set to only be 1 frame long.

If you still want the comp to begin at 31:06:08, leave the Start Timecode where is it and type 1000 in the Duration window to set the comp to 10 seconds. If the start time doesn't matter set it to 0, and enter the duration of your comp.

Then you should be able to move the CTI anywhere in the timeline or at least move it to zero by clicking in the Timecode display in the Timeline and typing 0, or 310508 if you kept the Start Timecode the same.

If your layers got moved in time you'll have to press Atl/Option + home to move the layer in-point to the first frame of the composition.

I have no idea where your time remapping keyframes are, but you can press the < next to the diamond to move to the previous keyframe, or the > to the right of the diamond in the Keys column to move to the next one. Your comp only shows keyframes to the right.

I think all you did was set the comp duration to 1 frame.

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Vincent5C1FAuthor

Participant

Hello Rick,

Sadly me setting the comp duration to 1 frame was not the issue. The very first image that is shown on my original post is the result of me changing the starting and ending time of the compilation. Whenever I use "Alt + Home", it brings my clips, but for some reason they are all less than a frame long.

Mylenium

Legend

Shortcuts are language specific, so you may need to use a different key. Switch the online help to your language to find out if that's the case. Otherwise the "Move to CTI..." keys you used would have been my choice, too, but it appears they function as the "set in point/ out point" in your case.

Mylenium

Legend

You probably hit some layer time related shortcut, be that a stretch or move. Refer to the online help's shortcut page, layers section:

https://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/user-guide.html/after-effects/using/keyboard-shortcuts-reference.ug.html

Select all your layers and use one of the "move inPoint to... " shortcuts to make them reappear in your comp.

Mylenium

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Vincent5C1FAuthor

Participant

Hey Mylenium! Thanks for the quick response, I have a few questions.

When you say "move inPoint to", what is an example of that? I'm not too sure what that is. I tried using the "[, amd ]" keybinds to move the layers. The result of which gave me my layers, but they were all less than 1 frame long.

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