How to freeze the frame at the end of a layer and hold for the rest of the composition?

[RealAnise]

Hey all,

This is one of those questions I USED to know the answer to... but I'm coming back to AE after having basically not used it for several years, so I don't remember how this worked, and for some weird reason, I can't find the answer. I have a piece of footage that is shorter than the entire composition. I want to freeze the last frame and hold it there until the composition reaches its end point. I do not want to change the timing of anything in the footage/layer itself-- just freeze and hold the last frame. It really seems like "freeze frame" SHOULD do this, but it just shows a frozen frame (converted the avi file to a still image in this instance, I think.) I need a frozen still of the *last* frame that will last for the duration of the entire comp. Please help me remember how this is done!! Thanks for all help and advice.

[Dave_LaRonde · Accepted solution]

Time Remapping to the rescue!  Here's What you do:

• Highlight the layer in question.  Go to Layer>Time>Enable Time Remapping.  The keyboard shortcut is Ctl-Alt-t (Win) or Cmd-Opt-t (Mac).
• You'll see two keyframes, one at the head of the clip and one at the tail.  Go to the tail.  Go to the frame BEFORE the ending keyframe.  Make another keyframe.
• Delete the final keyframe and pull the clip's out point as far as you want.  Everything beyond the new final keyframe is a freeze frame.

Very handy.

[RealAnise]

Thanks!

[RealAnise]

Thanks so much!

[defaultpgxphgsckead]

Hey Dave,

That was a perfect answer...

3 years have passed and you are still helping people with that 🙂

Thank you

[Roei Tzoref]

in addition to what Dave suggested, as of CC2017 you also have the freeze on last frame feature

[ShayeRyan]

Wow, so much easier!

[bradido]

Yeah, this worked much better. I could not the above solution to work. Thanks!

[Dermot28955381yl7e]

Imagine that: a Dave LaRonde tip that doesn't work. I'll add it to the very long list.