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Viewing all keyframes

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Viewing all keyframes

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- Sometimes I find myself coming back to a composition after some time has passed, or perhaps I need to open up a project from a work colleague and quickly make some changes. Well, one of the most useful commands is the ability to hone in on all of the keyframes or an animation. What you can do is let's highlight the active timeline here and press the accent grave or tilde key. Now I'll press control + a to select all of the layers. If I press the u key, you'll see that it reveals all of the keyframes that have been animated. If I press u + u, it reveals all of the properties that have been changed. So for example, you'll see that the source text has been input. Therefore, that property is revealed. Again, if you press u singular, it only shows properties that have keyframes. This is quite useful if you want to adjust the timing of an element, for example, pulling out some keyframes to extend an animation. On the other hand, if you press u + u, the u key two times quickly in a row…

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