07 · Tips

Tips

Oliver Aemisegger · 4 min read

Three small tricks that save you bare time.

This section enables you to

Scale Keyframes

Make an animation faster or slower without moving every keyframe.

01

Select all keyframes

Select every keyframe of the animation you want to change.
02

Alt-drag the end

Alt-drag the first or last keyframe. All keyframes scale together.

Swap what a layer shows and keep all its animation.

01

One layer

Select the layer in the Timeline. Alt-drag the new item from the Project panel onto it. In class: select bg and Alt-drag loop.psd from footage > psd onto it. The new background keeps the layer’s position, timing and animation.
02

All layers

In the Project panel, Alt-drag one item onto another. Every layer using it gets replaced.

Animate X and Y Position independently, for example with different timing.

Exercise

Continue with your project from 04 Keyframes

01Open motion_design_basics_04_keyframes. Alt-drag the last keyframe of LINEAR to make it twice as fast.
02Create two solids, Blue and Orange.
03Put Orange three times into a new comp motion_design_basics_07_tips.
04Replace one layer: Alt-drag Blue onto it in the Timeline.
05Replace all of them: Alt-drag Blue onto Orange in the Project panel.
06On a new square, separate the dimensions and animate X and Y with different timing.

Action	Mac
New Solid	`⌘Y`