Overall Composition Playback Speed

[glaustin]

Hi Guys

I'm in the latest version of Ae. I have a composition, with six animated layers that's a couple of seconds too long. I want to increase the overall composition speed, so the layers finish playback a few seconds before the end of the comp so I can lop a second or two off the Comp's end. Is that possible, or will I have to adjust each individual layers' playback time?

Regards,

Graham

[Mike_Abbott · Accepted solution]

Select all your layers and Pre-compose them (Menu: Layer > Precompose)

With the new pre-composed layer selected, apply Time remapping (Menu: Layer > Time > Enable Time Remapping)

This will give you a time remapping property on the timeline that has two keyframes, Simply drag the last keyframe earlier in time to speed up your precomposed layer.

One additional tip: If you then snap your playhead to the last time-remap keyframe, and hit the N key you will set the end  ( Nnd : )  of the work area. You can the right right in the work area bar and select : "Trim Comp to Work Area" to shorten the Comp to that length.

[glaustin]

Many thanks, Mike. Perfect!