Change Comp Duration and Everything Inside It In One Click

Today, After Effects friends, might just be a good day for resounding rejoice. After all, you will never again have to fight altering any comp duration in After Effects.

What’s so difficult about changing comp duration? Isn’t it already pretty simple? In a word yes. It is also an unintelligent and under-thought command in After Effects. What is the use if it can’t adjust nested elements, or keyframes in a way that is beneficial to animators?

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This is why a tool like the new Elastic Comp Changer (from Mathieu Glatigny) is so important. Elastic Comp Changer can change comp duration, its layers, and all the nested pre-comps. It also has the option to offset keyframes as well. It can do all this with a simple click.

The Ae script works based on frames rather than duration. This means that it will operate more to what an animator is accustom to in Flash for example. Changing the Comp duration will not affect your edit, by setting an In Point and Start Time for ripple edits.

If you don’t want something to change, you can just lock it. Elastic Comp Changer only works on unlocked layers and comps.

Elastic Comp Changer seems like it would be an indispensable tool for any AE user. Head over to aescripts + aeplugins to learn more and get a copy, under the “name your own price” platform.