20 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About – Part 1 of 5

1. Keyframe Velocity (CTRL+SHIFT+K)

2. Mini-Flowchart (TAB)

3. Align Tools

4. Replacing Images

5. System Color Picker

6. Render Presets

7. Cycle Mask Colors

8. Math

9. Gradient Overlays

10. Reverse Keyframes

11. Expressions to Keyframes

12. Splitting Layers (CTRL+SHIFT+D)

13. Guide Layers

14. Moving Masks (Space bar)

15. Creating a Motion Path from a Mask

16. Scaling Multiple Keyframes (Alt+Click and drag)

17. Copying Paths from Illustrator

18. Maximize Frame with a Shortcut (~)

19. Rendering Comps Out of Media Encoder (CTRL+ALT+M)

20. Close Panel and Frame with a Shortcut (CTRL+W, CTRL+ALT+W)

22 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About – Part 2 of 5

1. Shift+Parenting Behavior

2. Layer Selection

3. Go to Visible Item in the Timeline (J, and K)

4. Reveal Properties (U, and UU)

5. Paste Layers at Current Time (CTRL+ALT+V)

6. Close Other Timeline Panels

7. Find Missing Footage, Effects, or Fonts

8. Reveal in Explorer

9. Copy with Property Links (CTRL+ALT+C)

10. Center Anchor Point (CTRL+ALT+HOME)

11. Center in View (CTRL+HOME)

12. Fit to Comp (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+H, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+G, and CTRL+ALT+F)

13. Flexible Masking Options

14. Bezier Paths for Shape Layers

15. Reveal in Timeline

16. Default Render Setting (CTRL+Click on Render Preset)

17. Set Work Area to Duration of Selected Layers (CTRL+ALT+B)

18. Delete All Effects from Selected Layers (CTRL+SHIFT+E)

19. Turn Off All Other Solo Switches (CTRL+Click on Solo)

20. Reset Rotation and Scale

21. RAM Preview with Alternate Settings (Shift+0)

22. Live Text Templates for Premiere Pro

25 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About – Part 3 of 5

01. Edit Original

02. Solo Properties

03. Hide Properties

04. Remember & Apply Interpretation

05. Save Frame as Photoshop Layers

06. Convert Photoshop Text to Editable Text

07. Convert Shape Layer to Bezier Path

08. Show All Properties

09. Set & Number Comp Marker

10. Remove Marker

11. Adjusting Comp Duration When preComping

12. Add New Layer

13. Display Expressions Only

14. Copy Expression Only

15. Pick-whip To Different Comp

16. Reversing Parent Value

17. Delete Footage Without Warning

18. Scroll Selected Layer To Top Of Timeline Panel

19. Preserve Frame Rate

20. Select and Deselect All Visible Keyframes

21. Moving Content Into New Folder

22. Re-size Application Window To Fit Screen

23. Center Comp In The Panel

24. Look At Selected Layers

25. Parenting To New Layer

26 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About – Part 4 of 5

01. 00:26 CC Composite

02. 02:43 Sequence Layers

03. 04:49 Layer Reveal in Explorer/Finder

04. 05:18 Importing Files Into Timeline from Explorer/Finder

05. 05:37 Tool Creates Masks

06. 06:36 Mask Feather Tool

07. 07:55 Mask Opacity

08. 08:27 Toggle Masks and Shape Path Visibility

09. 09:26 Snapshots

10. 11:15 Animating Text Along A Path

11. 12:28 New Comp from Selection

12. 13:12 Trim Comp to Work Area

13. 13:40 Cycle Project Color Depth

14. 14:05 Crop Comp to Region of Interest

15. 14:31 CC Vignette

16. 15:38 Detail Preserving Upscale

17. 17:06 Pixel Motion Blur

18. 17:59 Show Overlays and Layer Controls in Ram Preview

19. 18:48 Increase or Decrease Transformation of Selected Layers

20. 20:26 Add or Remove Keyframe at Current Time.

21. 21:40 Altering Multiple Keyframes

22. 23:26 Show only Material Options Property Group

23. 24:17 Looping Animation

24. 25:52 Convert Audio to Keyframes

25. 27:46 Reducing Solids

26. 29:38 Save When Starting Render Queue

17 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About – Part 5 of 5

01. 00:13 New Project Template

02. 01:38 Freeze On Last Frame

03. 02:19 Time-stretching

04. 04:04 Auto Trace

05. 06:27 Alpha From Lightness (Unmult)

06. 07:36 Extending a Solid

07. 08:45 Mask Roundness

08. 10:19 Orient Along Path

09. 10:50 Spatial Interpolation

10. 12:04 Grow Bounds

11. 13:33 Auto-Open Panels

12. 14:07 Unlock Panel

13. 14:34 Text Template for Premiere Pro

14. 15:48 Date and Time Tokens

15. 17:13 Separate Dimensions

16. 17:42 Modify Property by 10x or 1/10 Default Increments

17. 18:33 Marker Duration

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