Can't enable time remapping (option greyed out)?

[josscells]

Hi, I'm a beginner to After Effects trying to loop a simple motion graphics composition. I looked up a tutorial that requires enabling time remapping. However, when I right click my layer and look under "time", the option to "enable time remapping" is greyed out and I can't click it. I feel like there is a simple problem I'm just missing. Any ideas about why that might be and what I could do to fix it??

 

[Rick Gerard]

Your layer isn't a movie. You probably have animation on the layer. To convert it into a movie you can just Pre-compose the layer making sure that you move all attributes to the new composition then apply Time Remapping to the nested comp.

When you are having problems with a tutorial please post a link to the tutorial. Most of the After Effects tutorials you find on YouTube are prepared by well-meaning enthusiasts and the workflows and explanations are often pretty poor. Most of the time the people asking for help with tutorials on the forum are following pretty lousy tutorials. 

Cropped screenshots are also nearly useless for diagnosing problems. Select the problem layer, press 'uu' to reveal all modified properties, then give us a screenshot of the entire UI so we have some idea about what is going on in the comp.

[Tami252283161waq]

Thanks Rick! I just had the same issue with this tutorial but your comment helped enable the feature so thank you! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHTO-FkoFg&t=185s)

[Quick5F9C]

Thank you Rick Gerard!