Friday, April 17, 2009

Short cut keys

Ok, so I have to jot this down quick before I forget.
In AE, if you want to bring your object up to the time line, just put the timeline cursor to where you want the object to start appearing and hold alt and the { and the object will start there.

To get your object to end in a particular place, just hold down alt and press } and it will end there.

When you select an object on the time line and you want to know where it actually begins, click on it and press "i" and the cursor will go to that exact point. You can press "o" if you want it to go to the end.

I also learnt a simple code for AE. I press "s" and hold alt and click the stop watch. Then type in wiggle(4,100) and press "enter". DO NOT PRESS RETURN. That would just make a new line. This code makes the object wiggle all around. It's really cool!

If you want to preview a particular part or clip in your project, put the cursor where you want to start preview and press "b", then press "0" on the number part.

I also know how to freeze the last frame of the movie clip in the time line. Right click on the clip. Time >> Enable Time Remapping and you can stretch the last clip to how ever long you want it.

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