Tutorial: Useful After Effects Tricks you May Not Know – 1-5

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Part 1 of 5

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

1. Keyframe Velocity (CTRL+SHIFT+K) at 0:20
2. Mini-Flowchart (TAB) at 2:20
3. Align Tools at 2:59
4. Replacing Images at 4:15
5. System Color Picker at 5:07
6. Render Presets at 6:22
7. Cycle Mask Colors at 7:47
8. Math at 8:37
9. Gradient Overlays at 9:26
10. Reverse Keyframes at 10:33
11. Expressions to Keyframes at 11:15
12. Splitting Layers (CTRL+SHIFT+D) at 12:10
13. Guide Layers at 12:47
14. Moving Masks (Space bar) at 13:57
15. Creating a Motion Path from a Mask at 15:08
16. Scaling Multiple Keyframes (Alt+Click and drag) at 16:22
17. Copying Paths from Illustrator at 16:56
18. Maximize Frame with a Shortcut (~) at 17:34
19. Rendering Comps Out of Media Encoder (CTRL+ALT+M) at 18:14
20. Close Panel and Frame with a Shortcut (CTRL+W, CTRL+ALT+W) at 19:01

Part 2 of 5

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

1. Shift+Parenting Behavior at 0:33
2. Layer Selection at 1:35
3. Go to Visible Item in the Timeline (J, and K) at 2:24
4. Reveal Properties (U, and UU) at 3:09
5. Paste Layers at Current Time (CTRL+ALT+V) at 3:50
6. Close Other Timeline Panels at 4:52
7. Find Missing Footage, Effects, or Fonts at 5:19
8. Reveal in Explorer at 6:06
9. Copy with Property Links (CTRL+ALT+C) at 6:37
10. Center Anchor Point (CTRL+ALT+HOME) at 9:01
11. Center in View (CTRL+HOME) at 9:56
12. Fit to Comp (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+H, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+G, and CTRL+ALT+F) at 10:43
13. Flexible Masking Options at 11:37
14. Bezier Paths for Shape Layers at 13:30
15. Reveal in Timeline at 14:48
16. Default Render Setting (CTRL+Click on Render Preset) at 15:17
17. Set Work Area to Duration of Selected Layers (CTRL+ALT+B) at 16:17
18. Delete All Effects from Selected Layers (CTRL+SHIFT+E) at 16:47
19. Turn Off All Other Solo Switches (CTRL+Click on Solo) at 17:32
20. Reset Rotation and Scale at 17:54
21. RAM Preview with Alternate Settings (Shift+0) at 18:31
22. Live Text Templates for Premiere Pro at 19:36

Part 3 of 5

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

1. Edit Original
2. Solo Properties
3. Hide Properties
4. Remember & Apply Interpretation
5. Save Frame as Photoshop Layers
6. Convert Photoshop Text to Editable Text
7. Convert Shape Layer to Bezier Path
8. Show All Properties
9. 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

Part 4 of 5

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

1. CC Composite
2. Sequence Layers
3. Layer Reveal in Explorer/Finder
4. Importing Files Into Timeline from Explorer/Finder
5. Tool Creates Masks
6. Mask Feather Tool
7. Mask Opacity
8. Toggle Masks and Shape Path Visibility
9. Snapshots
10. Animating Text Along A Path
11. New Comp from Selection
12. Trim Comp to Work Area
13. Cycle Project Color Depth
14. Crop Comp to Region of Interest
15. CC Vignette
16. Detail Preserving Upscale
17. Pixel Motion Blur
18. Show Overlays and Layer Controls in Ram Preview
19. Increase or Decrease Transformation of Selected Layers
20. Add or Remove Keyframe at Current Time.
21. Altering Multiple Keyframes
22. Show only Material Options Property Group
23. Looping Animation
24. Convert Audio to Keyframes
25. Reducing Solids
26. Save When Starting Render Queue

Part 5 of 5

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

1. New Project Template
2. Freeze On Last Frame
3. Time-stretching
4. Auto Trace
5. Alpha From Lightness (Unmult)
6. Extending a Solid
7. Mask Roundness
8. Orient Along Path
9. Spatial Interpolation
10. Grow Bounds
11. Auto-Open Panels
12. Unlock Panel
13. Text Template for Premiere Pro
14. Date and Time Tokens
15. Separate Dimensions
16. Modify Property by 10x or 1/10 Default Increments
17. Marker Duration

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