Jump animation loops more than once when jumping

I am using 4.5 because after 4.5 I couldn’t figure out how to change the animation bp for the character. When my player jumps the animation plays but then it plays again when hes nearly at the ground and looks bad. If you hit forward without taking your hands off the keyboard he will move forward while playing the jump animation?? You have to stop and wait for the idle animation then hit forward and then the correct forward animation will play.

This is a side scroller by the way.

make sure the loop pin is set to off if you just have a single jump animation

and if your animation itself is a “running jump” than you need to also have a standing jump animation.
play the jump animation by itself and see if your character moves forward in order to jump.
if so…
you will have to create a separate jump loop for both running and standing still jump… or… just make the standing
jump work for both.,., which is what i see most people doing.