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Increasing The Duration Of A Composition In After Effects


I want to use a stock composition I downloaded. It is of falling leaves and was built in After Effects using Particular. Find it here!

I need to increase the time of the composition to match a musical number I am using as well (00:05:12:15). I have done the whole right-click on the composition and increase the duration value, but it is still playing for it's default length of time.

The final goal is to use the composition, with a different background, along with the aforementioned musical number for a menu in an Encore project. Thanks!


Solution

  • After further investigating into the issue, I discovered that my inability to increase the duration of the composition was due to the length of a video asset being used in two of the nested comps. To remedy this, I duplicated the video layer in those two nested comps and repositioned the clip on each subsequent layer until I filled the duration I needed. Problem solved!