How can I delay animation for a couple of seconds?

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I have created a network that takes a JPEG image and applies a bunch of morphing and feedback to it. But when I am recording the output video, I want a couple of seconds where the original JPEG image is static. So far, I haven’t been able to figure out how to delay the onset of the transformations that I apply to that JPEG image. Any advice appreciated.

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Hello,

Without to know how you animate your transformations, it is difficult to find a way to delay it.

Please give a sample of it, as to understand your process.

But I think delay chop or timer Chop have the solution.

Jacques

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Thanks! The layout is fairly straightforward.I start with an image that has a fairly high resolution. I’m using the non-commercial version, so I need to get it down to the 1280x1280 range.For this, I use a fit top. From the fit top I go to a noise object, which is where the automation occurs. The automation goes into a threshold and back to a composite.The fit goes both into the noise and then the composite.The problem is I can’t get either a delay chop, timer chop, or count, or anything to connect to the Fit top. Even the top-to-chop won’t connect to the FIT top. To reiterate, my use case is that I want the initial JPEG image to display for a couple of seconds before the noise automation kicks in. And I can’t seem to put anything that will give me that effect between the Fit and noise objects.

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You can use a switcher top with entry 0 is the image before the fit top and the entry 1 is the image after the fit top.

You can use a chop exectute dat with a python script including:

op(‘fit1’).bypass = 0 or 1

(its much easier if you publish a .toe with you problem)

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If the absolute animation of things is necessary, then you are into animation comps (where you can edit key frames of values, and get a chop output).
The animation comp has a special right-click option to “edit animation”.
Im sure there are loads of YouTube tutorials out there.

Probably worth running the animation comp with a frame index input. If you ever want to freeze-frame (like the first 2 seconds), then just freeze the chop input.
Make sure that your “automation” (as you call it) is referencing something relevant to the animation comp, instead of some sort of global time variable