Hi Eric. Yes, you can!

Hi Pichco,

There are many ways to do it. If you just wanted to slow the whole thing down, it’s easy enough. If you were working in 30fps NTSC, for instance, then at the render stage, you can set the frames per second to 60 instead of 30. Once you’ve rendered, you would reimport into After Effects and time-stretch to 200%... Bingo! – half speed.

From an artistic point of view, a quick trick like I describe above may or may not work. You’ll also slow down the glitchy animations and overlays. This may be the effect you want… or maybe not.

But you can also keep the frequency of the glitchy animations, while reducing the picture frequency significantly by doing some manual editing in the _EDIT composition.

I’ve designed the template so that it’s easy to push timings around, duplicate or remove grunge elements and so on. Obviously this method will take you a few hours, whereas the trick above will take you just a few minutes, but the choice is yours.

Any which way – yes, it’s doable!

-felt.

Hi tstaires,

No, unfortunately I don’t, because the images don’t belong to me – I’m actually not allowed to package them up into one zip and offer them for download.

But if you look in the user guide, there are links to all the images I used in the preview. Right-clicking the images in the user guide and saving will allow you to save them all into one folder relatively quickly.

-felt.

Hi Kumite,

I’m not 100% sure I understand your question. A folder is simply a way of organizing elements within a project, so the idea of repeating a folder doesn’t make too much sense to me. You can certainly duplicate a whole folder, but in terms of repeating, you’d need to repeat a chunk of the timeline.

To achieve that is a bit more of an advanced techique that requires that you’ve got a handle on the way that After Effects structures its assets.

But here goes….Duplicate the whole of the first folder comps 1-10 (I’d rename the compositions inside to keep track of where you are – maybe put an “A” after then name). You can then go to the timeline and duplicate all the layers IMAGE 1 – IMAGE 10 and move them wholesale along the timeline. Just select and drag the lot of them.

Finally, you need to replace each of these duplicated layer’s source composition with the appropriate new composition that you created… i.e. the comp with the same name, but an “A” after it. To do this, select the layer IMAGE 1 on the timeline and the composition IMAGE 1A in the project window. Holding down alt/option, drag the IMAGE 1A composition from the project window over the selected IMAGE 1 on the timeline and it will replace the source.

Repeat for the other ones. Now when you update the images in IMAGE 1A – IMAGE 10A , the original IMAGE 1 -10 won’t change.

Good luck!

-felt.

Hi Kumite,

If you right-click on any of the IMAGE XX (where XX is a number) layers on the _EDIT timeline and choose Reveal Layer Source in Project, After Effects will highlight the Composition in the Project window. Now use Ctrl-D (or Cmd-D on a Mac) to duplicate this Composition.

You can now put a new image into this Composition and drop the Composition anywhere you like on the _EDIT timeline.

-felt.

Hi Jengastar,

Unless you’re using a modem from 1989, it should download in a few minutes. It sounds like there’s some kind of problem with your connection. I’d try it again later and if you still have problems, then get in touch with support.

Hi SnipSnap,

It’s actually rather easy to make as many new images you like from the existing ones.

If you do buy, drop me a line and I’ll give you full details.

-felt.

Oh… and of course, you can drop any media in that you like – so you could import video from premiere or you can even create simple animations on the placeholder timeline. There’s loads of ways to do it.

Thanks, Blackwatch. Glad you like it.

-f.