• Adobe After Effects

  Paste Keyframes Starting at Layer’s In Point?

  Posted by Thomas Horne on September 30, 2009 at 11:30 pm

  Hi Folks,

  I’m sitting here doing a lot of something that I often have to do – which is pasting a set number of keyframes on a number of layers. In this case, an opacity drop, starting at 100 at the layer’s in point, and going down to 0 after 20 frames.

  The problem is, there’s 80 layers in the comp, with the in points staggered all over the place. And of course, when you copy a set of keyframes, it always puts the first keyframe wherever the playhead is. So I have to select each layer, hit “I” to move the playhead to the layer’s in point, and then paste the keyframes.

  What I’m wondering is, is there a way to paste keyframes so that the first keyframe is set at the layer’s in point, regardless of where the playhead is? If so, I could just select all the layers, hit CMD+V, and be done… which would be amazing… any ideas?

  Thomas Horne replied 16 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Heid

  October 1, 2009 at 11:41 am

  There is a preset effect called fade in and out frames which might prove helpful for this issue. It does a fade up and out based on frames you specify and the in and out of the layer regardless of where it is on the timeline.
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  Thomas Horne

  October 11, 2009 at 9:06 am

  Yeah, looks like this does help with that one issue – thanks for the post!

  It still would be amazing if there was, say, a shortcut where pasting keyframes would automatically put the first keyframe (of whatever it was) at the layer’s in point, rather than the playhead…

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