• Adobe After Effects

  Problems with dragging and snapping a layer to a marker :-(

  Posted by David Honan on October 9, 2014 at 10:47 am

  Hi from OS grid reference SE628502 🙂

  https://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/drag-snap-ae_zpscb4a8204.jpg

  The above link illustrates my problem but here goes… In Ae version CC i ofter want to drag the end of a timeline layer to snap to a marker. I just cant do it… there’s tonnes of advice on how to get the playhead to snap but what about if you want to drag a layer to snap precisely to the playhead or marker.

  Thanks in advance,
  David

  Walter Soyka replied 11 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  October 9, 2014 at 1:14 pm

  [David Honan] “there’s tonnes of advice on how to get the playhead to snap but what about if you want to drag a layer to snap precisely to the playhead or marker.”

  Hold the Shift key while dragging the layer’s end point. This will allow you to snap in/out points, markers, and keyframes in the timeline.

  Also, the keyboard shortcut to set a layer’s end point is Alt+]. Since your marker is numbered, you could press 1 on the main keyboard to go to marker 1 (main numbers go to markers), then press 1 on the numeric keypad to select layer 1 if it is not already selected (numpad numbers select layers), then press Alt+] to set its end point to the CTI.

  Walter Soyka
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