5 After Effects Tips to Speed Up Your Workflow
After Effects Tips
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After Effects Tips •
Are you looking to enhance your efficiency in After Effects for Vidsy Briefs? Here are five handy tips to streamline your workflow and save time.
1️⃣ Snap Layers with Shift
When arranging layers in your composition, hold down the Shift key while moving them to snap to other layers. This eliminates guesswork and provides a more intuitive experience, particularly if you're familiar with other editing software like Premiere Pro.
2️⃣ Select Specific Keyframes with Shift
Hold Shift while selecting a property keyframe to isolate the properties you want to animate. This declutters your workspace, allowing you to focus on animating only what's necessary without sacrificing screen real estate.
3️⃣ Manipulate Keyframes Proportionally
Highlighting all keyframes on a layer across multiple properties enables you to manipulate them proportionally within the speed graph. This ensures consistent animation timing, avoiding any disjointed or out-of-sync movements.
4️⃣ Rebind 'Center Anchor Point' Shortcut
Rebind the 'Center Anchor Point' shortcut to a single key, such as '1', reducing the keystrokes required from three to one. By placing this shortcut near other transform properties, you can keep one hand on your mouse, enhancing efficiency and comfort during your workflow. This overwrites the ‘Orbit camera’ shortcut, but realistically you’re going to be using the center anchor point beastly more often than the former. Try to experiment with keybind adjustments to match repetitive or unwieldy actions you find yourself doing consistently to save your time and sanity.
5️⃣ Utilize 'Fit to Comp' Shortcuts
When resizing footage, especially for social media formats like 9x16, leverage the 'Fit to Comp' shortcuts to save time and effort. These shortcuts automatically resize layers to fit the composition's dimensions, eliminating the need to adjust each layer individually.
'Option + Command + F': Fit to Comp
'Option + Shift + Command + H': Fit to Width
'Option + Shift + Command + G': Fit to Height
By incorporating these tips into your After Effects workflow, you'll enhance your productivity and efficiency when working on Vidsy Briefs. Happy editing!
This article was written by Rob.
Motion Design Lead @ Vidsy.
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