Overview
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Learn about time-saving features for navigating to specific timecodes, adjusting keyframes, changing layer behavior, and other tips for mastering the timeline panel in After Effects.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Exercise files
- Using workspaces
- Scrolling the timeline
- Going to a specific time
- Defining the work area
- Advancing frames
- Finding items in the timeline
- Controlling playback in the timeline
- Navigating your photo organization
- Hiding, showing, and rearranging columns
- Using shy layers to simplify the timeline
- Controlling your timeline view by soloing layers
- Organizing with labels
- Controlling audio playback in the timeline
- Essential animation shortcuts
- Viewing all keyframes
- Showing only audio levels and audio waveforms
- Viewing only effects properties
- Retiming keyframes
- Using the graph editor to refine keyframes
- Using animation assistants to refine keyframes
- Navigating keyframes in the timeline
- How to nudge keyframes
- Keyframing with motion sketch
- Improving playback with Draft 3D
- Smoothing movement with motion blur
- Scaling vector objects with the continuously rasterize switch
- The collapse transformations switch
- Smoother speed changes with frame blending
- Working with adjustment layers
- The effect of the layer quality and sampling switch
- Choosing a specific layer
- Moving a layer's in and out points
- Trimming a layer's duration with in and out points
- Nudging a layer in the timeline
- Changing the stacking order for a layer
- Splitting a layer
- Renaming layers
- Locking layers in After Effects
- Controlling layers with a numeric keypad
- Animating with the Sequence Layers command
- Getting results with blending modes
- Preserving underlying transparency
- Using track mattes
- Animating with parenting
- Composition markers
- Setting a duration for markers
- Tapping out the beat
- What's next?
