15 After Effects Tricks Most Pros Don't Know
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2022
- These 15 Advanced After Effects tips & tricks will level up your workflow for motion graphics, VFX, and navigating the software to help you create your motion graphics.
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It's rare that I see a "tips you didn't know" video that is actually almost entirely tips I didn't know, but there you go.
Amazing! That was our goal with this one. I had to enlist the help of the amazing Andrew Marston to help me include tips I didn't even know.
@@BenMarriott Glad to contribute ideas!
so true! the mask mode one fucked me up!!!
Yeah
My tip I learned from Visionary Fire youtube channel:
If you have ever needed to draw a 2D mask on a layer that has a 3D effect like CC Cylinder (or Trapcode Particular), or a distortion effect like Polar Coordinates, the mask will get distorted along with the effects.
However, if you add a "Fill" effect to the end of your effects stack, set it's opacity to 0%, and then scroll down in the "Fill" effect's panel in the timeline you can click the "+" icon next to "Compositing Options" which will add a mask to the "Fill" effect ONLY. This effectively circumvents the distortion issue. I like to rename the Fill effect to something like "MASK" to make it extra clear what it's purpose is for.
Why dont you just re-comp the layer :D
Press NUMPAD + / - to rotate a selected layer/shape by 1%. Hold SHIFT to increase the amount by 10 %
Press NUMPAD + / - and CTRL to scale a layer/shape by 1%. Hold SHIFT to increase the amouny by 10%
Oh I gotta use these shortcuts more. thanks for sharing!
@@BenMarriott Also, Press Ctrl + Alt + NUMPAD + / - (Command + Option + Num +/-) to change opacity of a selected layer/shape by 1. Hold SHIFT to increment by 10.
Great
Okay, I gotta forget about my gaming numpadless keyboard, enough rebinding.
Or just buy a custom numpad :o
Wow Ben, these tips are gold, GOLD I tell you!
👀👀👀
One that really saved me lots of time when I learned about it was "x" to reveal the selected layer on the layers panel. It's probably a well known shortcut, but I have no idea, so I thought I'd share it just in case.
Also on the project panel moving one file on top of another while pressing "alt" replaces all instances of one file for the other on every comp and stuff. Also probably well known but super handy
This is wonderful stuff, Ben. You're one of the most consistently informative people on YT. I love both your deep dives into specific effects, and the short tooltip/shortcut stuff no one knows about because why would they unless they grew up with the software as it was being added. Thank you for being generous with your craft and sharing so openly.
that's so nice of you to say, thanks so much for the awesome comment dude, the pleasure is all mine! :)
Wow. Some absolute gems in there. Most “tips you don’t know” videos are either tips I do know, or things I can’t imagine wanting to do. This, on the other hand, is super useful. Thanks Ben!
Worked in AE daily for nearly 10 years so smugly thought I'd know all of these. Not smug any more 😀 Not only were they new to me but they're also really useful! Many thanks 👍
What an absolute legend! Been working on after effects every day for the past 3 years and didn't know any of this ahahah
Thank you Ben ❤❤❤
Your updated and refreshed sense of humor is the best thing on the internet right now :D Love your new style
I worship the ground you walk on, once again you have made my day-to-day life so much easier! Thank you Ben!
The world needs more Ben Marriotts 🐐
I'm so glad to know your channel! Thanks a lot! I'm watching every video from now to the past
Amazing tips!! The most helpful tips I recent found out is right click on project files/files in comp and reveal it in composition/explorer. It's super helpful for a billion layers!
Your videos are really kicking it up a notch! I cant see the effort Ben, very nice bud!
Keep up the fantastic work!
tip 10: you have a faster way to colapse all properties. just hit the "L". and with "u" you open all properties with keyframes
Great tips, thank you. And thank you for allowing these techniques to know what it's like to feel joy.
HOLY SHIT the move shapes with the spacebar is a literal game changer, thankyou. So little but so good
Fantastic tips, Ben. Thank you!
I also like if you want to reverse the layer order of several layers in the timeline, select them from the bottom up. CMD/CTRL + X and paste them again with CMD/CTRL V.
Ben knows the shortcut to our hearts
Dawwww, This.Comp.Layer"My heart" scale = 200%
If Adobe has any say in it it will be CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-CAPSLOCK-BACKSPACE-H
More and more tips and still not enough of what AE can do. Ben you are the master. Your videos always help me learn something new.
Love it. LOVE IT!!!!! I almost said wow on every one of these. Thank you!!
I love that you can toggle between blending modes using Shift + "+" and Shift + "-"
OMG!! How did I not know this? Thanks Leo!
Thanks a lot
I know this exist but I have forgot how to make that, thanks!!! haha
For this 15 Tricks i just knew 5! So i'm 300% Grateful! Thanks Ben!
that Shift + pickwhip tip is about to save me TONS of time
And you told us all of this information for free? You’re a gem!
You're the gem for watching!
The add marker and open marker window in one go is a beaut
keep up the great job. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and expertise with us.
I just learned this: if you want to disable all expressions on a layer, you can right click on it and under "switches" you can find the two buttons for Enable/Disable Expressions. and naturally if you would use it often you can make a ketboard shortcut for it.
saved me a bit of time out of my everyday work!
#15 was by far the best of them to me!
This was very well done. Thank you.
The duration between keyframes tip it's so simple and so useful. Black magic.
I watch almost all of your videos, even if I don't do motion graphic nor use Ae, the editing is good and your thumbnails are beautiful :)
Ben Marriott. You. Are. Awesome.
Appreciate the quality content you put out👍
CMD/CTRL + OPTION/ALT + Home > recenters the anchorpoint
CMD/CTRL + Home > recenters the layer in the comp based on the anchorpoint
If you hit the first one and let go of OPTION/ALT, then press home again you can very quickly recenter a shape/layer to the center of your comp
+1
I keep using this shortcut all the time... even in photoshop, before realising that there is no such thing. every. single. time. lol
One that I use frequently is to select a layer in the comp, then CTRL+double click the anchor point tool (whatever it's called, I can't remember off the top of my head) to center the anchor point on the layer. I use this when drawing a mask. Then I can realign the anchor point to the center of the mask (and then I move the anchor point where I need to from there). Would CTRL+ALT+Home do the same thing? Because that would make my life a wee bit easier!
@@camerastooge If I'm understanding correctly what you are saying, then yes!
Neat thing about holding space when working with shapes, you can do it with path points too, even when you're draging the bezier points!
These tips are amazing! The mask one especially. I think that's just saved me half a year of my life
i will def be training my brain with these. super useful. TY!!!
I really love how you don't have ads in your videos. X-D Also: Nice use of speed lines.
Once again, thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of this cryptic program!
😍🤩😮 After 18 years, most of them are brand new to me.
Thanks a lot 💙💙💙
Insane! Thank you, Ben!!!
ten year of working with after effects and I knew none of these. you sir, are something else! cheers
OMG that last tip just blew my mind!!!
no more SHIT+CTRL+arrow for counting spaces between keys, BLESS YOU SIRE
Yep! I always used to drag them to the nearest second to make the counting easier XD
@@BenMarriott That's some hardcore hacking lol
Awesome, great tips!!!... Thanks for sharing!!!
Love the tricks series so much 😍
WOW MAN, thanks for the lovely information which was needed
Great vid Ben! I found that J is a very under utilised key so I created a shortcut (in shortcuts panel) that j converts the view panel to quarter resolution. then command J for full resolution. It makes previewing things a lot quicker.
Your new style of videos is really spectacular! Keep it up!
Got my inspiration about editing and 2d 3d animation from your vdos and this year I am getting in college to study that. THANKS MAN.
Amazing! Good luck at college my friend!
I gasped at the Alt+* to add marker with opened dialog box, you have noooo idea how much I use this feature and double clicking it every time was really starting to annoy me 😄
Also pressing letters to switch between mask modes is a true gem because I use them a lot too! Thank you!
amazing!!
please create part-2 if you learn new tips like these :D
Some of these are game changers! Thank you!
I liked so much this video, then I came and saw all this coments with tricks & tips, WOW, this was absolutelly GREAT!
Tip #2 similarly applies to selecting items in a right-click menu! It's most useful when the item you're selecting starts with a letter that none of the other items start with. I saw Zack Lovatt use this trick recently as a quick way to separate dimensions on the position value. Right click > S > enter.
I also learned this separate dimensions shortcut from Zack in a Ukramedia video. Small world.
Awesome Ben... Thankyou for these great tips
You're a real ' Old hands of ae!!!'
Great!!!
Shift Pickwhip is gold!!!
Thank you SO much, really this is helpful👍👍
This is great! Thanks for sharing!
You think you know every dirty secret, till Ben speaks. Great job man!
super helpfull stuff in this!!
*on the first one:
select all and ctrl click the layers, to deselect them, faster, fewer clicks!
;)
Your videos are pure AE gold.
CMD D for expressions?! Crazy! So useful!
Holy fudge I will be watching this on loop today.
Mindblowed emoji just wouldn’t describe it. Thanks so Ben.
Parenting a 3d camera to a null gives you easier xy pan controls.
If you want to create a parallax scene and keep everything at the same scale really fast then
1. Create a 3d null and a camera
2. Parent the null to the camera and then zero its position
3. Unparent the camera from the null
4. Parent all your parallel layers to the null
5. Unparent the front most layer you want to stay in place from the null
6. Scale the null and watch as all the child layers move back in space while maintaining their scale.
7. Repeat by unparenting the next closest layer to the front
I use Pt_multi plane for this purpose and it’s an amazing one click solution. Highly recommended.
My jaw dropped three times in the first minute alone. How did I not know these?
For those with small screens, the Ctrl\Command + \ shortcut is useful. It allows to hide the header of the window in After Effects.
There were some nice ones :) I did one of these videos some weeks ago. Just love them. Always new things to learn in AE :)
Thank you, Ben!!
click the audio layer + click L 2 times in the keyboard
to show the audio waveform
I use ctrl + alt + shift + H to scale a layer to fill the comp proportionally all the time
Isn’t that to only scale to height. If you change the H for a G then it scales proportionally to the width.
Priceless tips!!
I was sceptical but these were actually brill thanks!
Can you do a tutorial about After Effects Automation using CSV. Like controlling text, controlling color, opacity, etc... and autmatic batch render? thanks. great video and do more please.
Thanks Ben!!
Amaze! Thanks Ben
Thank you so much man
2:32 - Tip 10 for those who have different keyboard, the function "Show/Hide All of the Selected Layers' Properties" must be reassigned to another shortcut.
wow. thank you for the amazing video
Very useful!! thanks ben
Fantastic! Thank you!
Just started your motion practice course two days ago!
May gods of animation bless your workstation! Thank! You've just provide me few more years of life and less gray hair!
the useful tricks i ever seen😍
Thank you M8 very useful, as usual!
Lovely you Marriott!
Some tips i actually didn't know! Thanks!
15 that is what I need
Thx!!
Someone has been reading the Ae manual.😉 Great video btw, new shortcuts added to my list, thanks!
Appreciate the heads up on these- very useful!
Thanks Shane! Glad to get these to your eyeballs :)
This ''shortcut'' to create folders can be summarized by clicking on the folder icon on the bottom of the pannel. Always worked for me and feels faster once I have to click there anyways.
This is a life saver!
My favorite Ben tip is still "name layers" :)
BECAUSEWEALWAYSLABELOURLAYERS is something that runs through my head when working a lot. Though not always as often as I'd like it to.
that was an amazing video thank you
Amaazing tips from PRO !!
Ctrl/Cmd - Double click on pan behind tool: set anchor point in the middle of the layer
Ctrl/Cmd - Shift - Toggle mask and shape path visibility. (for windows users hard one to use with one hand but there is a way :P: pinky on Ctrl - ring finger on shift - thumb on H)
very talented teacher - cheers
My favorite shortcut has to be hitting ~ while mousing over a panel I want to maximize. Especially useful for long expressions in the timeline window 👨💻
This has saved me hours and hours of frustration when dealing with expressions. I also use it occasionally for previewing in a larger window. I would say this is the most useful thing I've learned so far.
My favourite most used shortcut, although custom, is "1" to "Toggle Switches/Modes" in the layer panel.
Or the tilde key to fit comp to screen.
are you using windows? because I also use tilde for fit (option/alt + ` specifically) on windows but it doesnt work on m2max.
actually fit and fit100 doesnt work on mac if you rebind them.
@@bendixtrinity I'm on windows, yeah.