Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
Drag over the Timeline Bar to Pan Behind the layer's footage and Scale
Keyframes. You are limited by the amount of slip the Pan Behind can provide
due to the limited amount of excess footage after the Out Point marker.
However, if you were to click and drag over the Keyframes directly using the
Pan Behind Tool, only the Keyframes would move - here the Pan Behind Tool
behaves in the same way as the Selection Tool (V).
An Artist's Work is Never Done - It's Just Abandoned
I bet you're happy that this section used something other than the
WONK TV elements. You're probably sick of WONK TV by now, so for
most of the remaining sections of this topic we'll be using some different
resources. But we will return to WONK TV to add a few tweaks and other
interesting elements. This is the essence of After Effects: never leaving well
enough alone.
Advanced Timeline Operations
An After Effects composition is the amalgamation of virtually countless
elements, features, and computational operations. Some of these operations
are spread across multiple layers and resources, while other operations are
targeted at individual layers.
Advanced Timeline Operations will focus on preparing, adjusting, and
manipulating single resource layers through:
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Drag and Replace
- swap resources in a single Comp or across an entire
project (multiple Comps and layers) effortlessly.
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Replace Footage
- change resources globally.
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Advanced Masking
- the Pen Tool and RotoBezier.
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Text Tool
- typewrite on the screen.
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Footage Speed Changing
- Frame Blending, Constant and Time
Remapped Footage.
Layers - Part 3: Drag and Replace
Of all the great productivity features (Precomping, Parenting, 3D Layers),
perhaps the greatest is the all-powerful Drag and Replace function.
