After Effects Tips and Tricks Part 2
Time for part two of our Tips and Tricks series! Learn how you can easily speed up your After Effects workflow with this series from Noble Desktop!
After Effects Tips and Tricks Part 1
[ • After Effects Tips & Tricks Part 1 ]
Looping
1. Select any animated layer.
2. Alt/Option-click the stopwatch next to the animated property.
3. In the expression box that opens up, type “LoopOut().”
4. Hit the spacebar to play the animation. It will now loop.
Quick Pan/Quick Select
1. Hold down the spacebar when using any tool (aside from Rotobrush).
2. Click and drag around on the interface to use the Pan tool.
3. Release the spacebar. This technique is quick panning and can work with any other tool hotkey.
Zooming In/Out
1. To zoom in, hit the period key on the keyboard.
2. To zoom out, hit the comma key on the keyboard.
Rasterizing Layers/Collapse Transformations Switch
1. If a vector file appears fuzzy, locate the Rasterize Layer switch in the layer stack. This switch has a picture of a sun on it.
If the switch is not visible, hit Toggle Switches/Modes.
1. Clicking the Rasterize Layers switch will cause the vector layer to rasterize, making it appear clearer continuously. This technique takes up processing power, so users should use the Rasterize Layer switch mainly for previews.
2. Another function of the Rasterize Layer switch is Collapsing Transformations. This method works on Precomps containing 3D layers.
To visually flatten any Precomp containing 3D layers, activate the Rasterize Layer/Collapse Transformations switch.
Exporting Transparency
1. To export a project with transparency, go up to Composition - Add to Adobe Media Encoder.
2. Within Adobe Media Encoder, go to Format.
3. A window will open. Within the window, click on the Format dropdown menu.
4. Several different encoding formats support transparency. For this tutorial, choose PNG.
5. The dropdown menu beneath Format should list “PNG Sequence with Alpha.”
6. Hit OK.
7. In Adobe Media Encoder, hit the Play button to render. Doing this will render a PNG sequence of the animation with transparency.
8. When importing such sequences into After Effects, bring them in as Footage to have them animate.
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00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Looping
01:02 - Quick Pan/Quick Select
01:31 - Zooming In/Out
02:00 - Rasterize Layers
04:00 - Exporting Transparency
06:00 - Outro
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