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- jg_2
to make a loop with an after effects composition?
we need help!
thank you mates
- del_razor0
i assume you need to "loop" your composition over and over... as you would a piece of video footage using "interpret footage"
as far as i know.. there's no real way to do this.. unless you pre-render..
what i usually do.. is take that one comp.. make sure it's trimmed up to the points i want... drop it in the new comp.. apply a "time remap" to it.. and copy the keyframes over and over under that... that way. you can still edit the original comp.. and when you come back to the other... it's still looped...
hope that helps..
- j_red0
pre-comp it and add the following expression to the time-remap property:
loop_out("cycle",0)
this will loop it.
i learned this on creativecow
- mikotondria20
Is it a loop of me typing this message and reading it over and over again ?
- jarno0
i'm trying out ae and having the same problem.
what means 'pre-comp'? and where exactly am i supposed to type in the loop-expressions? i saw some tutorials having some composition attributes and time options that i can't find from my 6.0?
it's all 3d shiz so the composition cannot be rendered and imported again or anything like that. the area (three keyframes) that needs looping is 0.11 seconds long, and should be nested into the main composition as a 3d-layer. the expression loopout("cycle",0) doesn't give any error, but it doesn't work either. this is when typed in on a layer's current time-vary transfer..thing with the keyframes. bleurgh.
- jarno0
nevedmind that was just dumb. here's the solution if anyone still cares:
subcomp = the composition you want to loop.
maincomp = the composition where you want the subcomp as a layer.
1. make sure the subcomp is as long as the time of the desired loop (no empty space at the end of the subcomp's timeline)
2. drag the subcomp into the maincomp and click the new layer (subcomp-layer) in the maincomp's timeline.
3. choose Layer > Enable Time Remapping.
4. in the maincomp timeline, place the Time Remap keyframes to the beginning and end of the time you want the subcomp to loop.
5. click the "Time Remap" text under the layer, and choose Animation > Add expression.
6. to the expression field, type in: loopOut("cycle",0)
7. in the timeline, drag the end of the subcomp-layer further as long as you want to loop it.
8. yeah baby woo hoo!