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Tricks with keyframes

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Tricks with keyframes

- [Voiceover] This After Effects' hidden gem is dedicated to a grab bag of tricks you can perform with keyframes, particularly if you use particular modifier keys when you click on them. Now you probably already know you can double click on a keyframe to edit its value directly, you can hold down a command on Mac, or control on Windows, to click on a keyframe and toggle it between Auto Bezier and Linear, but you get a whole 'nother group of functions if you right click on a keyframe. Here's the edited value that you saw, including what its value currently is, but there's some interesting ways of selecting keyframes, particularly if you have a timeline with a lot of keyframes, or you're zoomed in so close you can't see them all. For example, I can select all of the following keyframes. So it selects this one, and all the ones afterwards, and now if I hold down command or control and click, I can change them all to Auto Bezier. Likewise, if I right click on this first keyframe, and say…

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