From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 09 Expressions
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Managing expressions - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 09 Expressions
Managing expressions
- [Instructor] Now before we go further, let's show a few ways of managing Expressions. This little equal sign is very important. It shows that an Expression is active. If I click on the equal sign it becomes not equal, and that Expression is now temporarily disabled for that layer. On RAM preview, you'll see I still have my scale animation, I just no longer have the rotation animation, but if I want it back, I'll click on this again and turn that back on, and now that Expression is in force again. If I indeed want to delete the Expression, I neither select the text and backspace to delete it. I'll undo, or again, option or alt click on the property to again delete that Expression. I'll undo again. Let's say that you want to reveal the Expression supply tool layer. Well, the same key that you used to reveal key frames, u, will also reveal Expressions for a layer and pressing u again and there's my Expressions. So u reveals both key frames and Expressions, anything that's causing…
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