You don’t need to preserve colors when pulling a key
Sometimes it’s hard to key out a background without messing up the colors of the foreground subject that you’re trying [...]
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Your shape layers want to wiggle
Add a Wiggle Transform operation and a Repeater operation to a shape to randomize (wiggle) the properties of the repeated [...]
You don’t (always) have to manually set composition settings
When you drag a footage item in the Project panel to the Create a New Composition icon at the bottom [...]
Your Shift and Arrow keys want you to work faster, too
Navigating nested compositions just got a lot faster. When you tap the Shift key, the Composition Mini-Flowchart opens to show [...]
Your right mouse button wants you to work faster
Rather than hunting around in the menus at the top of the application window for a command, try Control-clicking (PC: [...]
Your spreadsheet is a keyframe editor
You can copy-and-paste keyframes as tabdelimited text. Just select keyframes for one or more properties on the same layer, then [...]
Hundreds of freebies waiting just for you
To exchange scripts, projects, and other useful items with other users, go to the Adobe Exchange. You can find the [...]
Render once
In After Effects, you don’t have to render multiple times to export to multiple formats. You can apply multiple output [...]
Find things much faster now
The Project, Timeline, and Effects & Presets panels each contain search fields that you can use to filter items in [...]
Your text animation system is a 3D vector graphics toolkit
The After Effects text animation system is very powerful. So why not use it for more than just text? For [...]
ActionScript goes green
You’ve got options for reusing an animation in your document with code. You can assign an Instance Name to an [...]
One way to keep a New Year’s resolution
Flash CS4 makes getting your symbols organized in your Library as easy as drag-and-drop. So after you’ve created a new [...]
One stone—whole flock of birds
Flash CS4 also lets you edit the properties of multiple assets in the Library with one dialog. Just select a [...]
Got a bone to pick?
Want to edit a specific bone without having to recreate the entire armature? IK
Shape bone placement can be edited at [...]
Snap to it
When using the Bone tool (X) to create a new armature, the transformation point is automatically set at the location [...]
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