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Retend

Retime or extend entire nested precomp tree — in one click.

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Description
One click, whole tree After Effects macOS & Windows No Time Remapping

The problem

Not one comp.
The whole tree.

You need a precomp three seconds longer, or the whole sequence at double speed. Until now that meant opening every nested comp by hand, dragging out-points one at a time, retiming keyframes property by property — or reaching for Time Remapping and quietly wrecking the frame rate for whoever opens the project next.

Retend replaces all of that. Select a precomp layer — or select nothing, to work on the whole open comp — type a target duration or speed, and click. The entire nested tree, however many comps deep, changes together, correctly, in one action.

By hand

Open every nested comp, one at a time

Drag each out-point and hope you caught them all

Retime keyframes property by property

Or add Time Remapping and lose the frame rate

Undo it in a dozen separate steps

With Retend

Select the precomp — or nothing at all

Type the duration or the speed you want

Click once; the whole tree follows

Frame rate untouched, no Time Remap layer

One undo puts everything back

What it does

Four operations,
every one recursive.

Extend

Lengthens a precomp's entire tree without touching a single keyframe. Every nested comp grows by the same amount, at every depth.

Three layers extending to a new comp end; a deliberately trimmed layer stays where it is
A layer already reaching the old end — even one dragged past it — is pushed out to the new end. A layer deliberately trimmed short is left exactly where it was. Footage that runs out freezes on its last frame.

Retime

Proportionally rescales an entire nested tree, faster or slower. Every keyframe, marker and layer timing scales together, eases preserved.

Keyframes on two layers scaling proportionally closer together
Frame rate never changes, and no Time Remap layer is ever added. Works either direction — speed it up, or slow it down.

Real footage handling

Video and audio have no keyframes to rescale, so it's a choice — one that only comes up when a precomp actually contains footage.

A footage strip growing while its native tick spacing stays constant, looping the visible range
Change speed — stretch it, so the same content plays faster or slower. Keep native speed — shrinking trims the tail, growing loops the visible range (Cycle or Ping-pong).

Resolution rescale

Rescales a comp's resolution in one click — Full HD, 2K, 4K presets, or a custom target by longest side.

A comp frame scaling from 1920 by 1080 up to 3840 by 2160

Precomp layers stay sharp — Continuously Rasterize is enabled automatically.

How it works

Three steps, one undo.

01

Point at the tree

Select a precomp layer, or select nothing at all to work on the whole open comp.

02

Set a target

Type a duration, a speed multiplier, or pick a resolution preset.

03

Click once

The whole tree changes together. If it isn't what you wanted, one undo puts everything back.

What it deliberately doesn't do

Retend changes timing and resolution. It leaves everything else about how the comp is built exactly as you made it.

No Time Remapping layer, ever

No frame-rate changes

No re-parenting or layer reordering

No effects or expressions rewritten

Discussions

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Version History

1.2 -

Sep 8, 2026

Fixed Retime moving a precomp along the timeline when it did not start at the beginning of its parent composition.

1.1 -

Aug 31, 2026

Fixed a startup delay — the panel now opens immediately instead of waiting for the license check to complete.

1.0 -

Aug 27, 2026

Initial Release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020

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