HeadsNTails

Extend or shorten the head (or beginning) of your timeline and/or extend or shorten the tail (or end) of your timeline.

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HeadsNTails

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This script will allow you to extend or shorten the head (or beginning) of your timeline and/or extend or shorten the tail (or end) of your timeline.

Options:

Use Frames for your adjustments.
Use Seconds for your adjustments.
Can independently adjust heads or tails

Note:

After Effects will not allow access locked layers in a composition timeline. This script will warn user before unlocking any layers.

Side Note:

The clown face looking interface was an accident, but I decided to keep it anyway, it’s fun looking.

Last updated January 4th, 2010
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Tags: CS3, CS4, CS5, CS5.5, Extend, Shorten, Timeline

David Torno

About the author

David Torno, a Visual Effects Supervisor and Artist for Ghost Town Media based in Los Angeles, CA has been an active user of After Effects since 1999. During 2009 David has slowly been making the transition from the creative environment to the technical environment with After Effects scripting being a major bridge in that journey with hopes of offering quality contributions back to the creative community that has and still is a big part of his life.

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14 Comments

Michal (Reply to this comment)
June 13, 2011

A workflow godsend, works perfect! Only one small quirk: the option to switch between frames/seconds is hidden in the help menu – that is a litlle bit confusing.
David Torno (Reply to this comment)
February 7, 2010

Eventually, yes. Just can’t guarentee a timeframe of when though, my hands are pretty full at the moment.
Daniel Annefelt (Reply to this comment)
February 4, 2010

Awesome!
And if I could adjust multiple Comps at once from the Project Pane it would be even awesomer.
Any chance of that?

.-daniel
David Torno (Reply to this comment)
January 28, 2010

You are welcome Kevin. I appreciate the kind words, lol, never really considered my script work poetry before.
Kevin Marchelak (Reply to this comment)
January 28, 2010

Thanks David for a truly excellent piece of poetry!

Regards to all

Kevin
David Torno (Reply to this comment)
January 25, 2010

Glad you like it Navarro.
Navarro Parker (Reply to this comment)
January 25, 2010

Excellent!!
Thomas (Reply to this comment)
January 6, 2010

and when do we force Adobe (Michael Coleman) to do this stuff without the amazing math of your all?

At least hiring the real people like you?

why are your websites much cooler than Adobes?

Why are your blog and websites are much accessible and easier to use than Adobes?

Why you guys have a real time spell checker available but they A**holes don’t?

I don’t the damn i don’t know it!

But, I’m really happy about one thing: true love and excitement cannot be destroyed easily by some million dollar company assholes!

Read that Mr. Coleman

if those people do not exist anymore, Ae will not exist anymore, anymore!
David Torno (Reply to this comment)
January 6, 2010

It looks like Bert is cropping/shortening his timeline, which this script will also do by adding a “-” (negative or minus sign) before your number entry. I show this in the demo video. Hope it helps ya Bert.
Bert (Reply to this comment)
January 5, 2010

Funny that this came up when it did, I’m just about to turn all my :30s into :15s, but I need the back-end, not the front.
- Lloyd Alvarez (Reply to this comment)
  January 6, 2010
  
  This script will extend the end as well as the front of your timeline

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