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Working around expressions in a project

Working around expressions in a project - After Effects Tutorial

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Working around expressions in a project

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- I'm here in chapter 403, Working Around Expressions. Now, let's say you take on a job doing some adjustments to a previously created animation from some other rando animator. No big deal; right? You know how to use After Effects. I mean, you're new, but you got this. Then you open up the composition. You'll look at the animation. Oh, it's a bat phone flying around. Easy peasy. So you go down to your layers, you hit command A to select all the layers, and it's like, hey, I'll just hit the U key, see where there's keyframes and I can go from there. You hit the U key but nothing pops up. Something's weird. Okay. Maybe you didn't hit it right. You hit it again. Nothing. You hit it again. Nothing. You hit it again. Nothing. What? No keyframes? Okay. Let's go ahead and twirl this open and look. Transform. No keyframes. None. What could this possibly mean? Could it be that the previous animator is magic? That they can will the animation to move? No, it just means they used expressions to…

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