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Animation shortcuts

Animation shortcuts

Before we leave this chapter on animation, I really want to give you some important shortcuts as you're working in the Timeline. These shortcuts don't just speed things up. They make things infinitely easier as you work in After Effects, especially as you are working in the Timeline and with the animation. Before you do that, I want to show you just what we have done for this final project. I have kind of put everything together here and so I am going to maximize this window. Let's just play back our little animation here. Not too shabby for so early in the training series. Pretty cool stuff. We have our biker girl. We have things coming on and animating. There is a lot of like layers to this, a lot of staggered animation, so it's very visually appealing. Pretty nice work. You should be proud of yourselves. Okay, so let's talk about this. First of all, most important keyboard shortcuts, navigating the Timeline. The Home key on your keyboard will jump you to the first frame of the…

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