Extending a timeline duration AT THE START of composition

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
June 30, 2020
2 replies
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Hi guys.

Does anyone knows how to Extend a timeline duration of composition AT THE START ??

Basically BEFORE the start of the timeline.

anybody ??

How to

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

I've been using After Effects since 1994 and I can't think of a single time that I needed to add time in front of a comp. I've shifted a lot of layer positions, but it never occurred to me to add a few seconds to something that I already started. Maybe it is because I never use After Effects to edit a movie.

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BHazelton

Participant

AE gives you the option to set the working area to a layer, and then set the composition to the working area. This 'crops' the timeline at the beginning and end (assuming your working area was somewhere in the middle). What if you want to go back? You can regain the timeline at the end but not at the beginning. Seems a pretty obvious functionality to me, and I've only been using AE since 1995 😛

Mylenium

Legend

There is no such functionality. You have to actually shift the layers to a later point in time, with the help of specific scripts if necessary.

Mylenium

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millionderAuthor

Participant

.. . they didn't think of makin it ???
Probably THE most important timeline option of them all ?????????
wooow..

Ok, thank you very much !!!))

Mylenium

Legend

Yeah, one of those old things where AE can't deal with negative time offsets even if they would be temporary. Perhaps they'll implement it one of these days...

Mylenium

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