From the course: After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline (2013)

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Navigating keyframes

Navigating keyframes

One of the most common mistakes I see when people are using keyframes is lack of synchronicity. Ideally, many animations involve getting things to happen at the same time. So as something lands, it's something happens over here. Or two elements of text land and settle, stopping at the same time. You don't always this, but when you do, you don't want slight variations that have a little bit of a one or two frame drip one way or the other. Another issue I'll see is sometimes people just start to drag and they think they've got everything precisely aligned, but it doesn't really work that way. Well, here's the good news. Pressing J or K will take you through your timeline. K will move from one key frame to the next going forward, and J will go backwards. This makes it much easier to precisely align key frames here. Holding down the Shift key, I am just snapping. And this is a good opportunity to increase the magnification level, to be a little more precise. Here we go. And you see, using…

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