Adobe After Effects CS4

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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 [...]



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 [...]



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