• Adobe After Effects

  simple navigation question

  Posted by Chi-ho Lee on January 16, 2007 at 9:12 pm

  Hello,

  Is there a way to move the playhead/current timecode indicator by 1 sec or even 10 frames?

  Thanks,

  CHL

  Cal Johnson replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Cal Johnson

  January 18, 2007 at 4:35 pm

  Chi-Ho, pressing the “Page Up” and “Page Down” buttons move you back or forward one frame at a time. Holding the Shift key down while you use the Page Up or Page Down buttons will move you 10 frames at a time. If you need to go a specific time, you can hit Ctrl G or click on the comps time code display to open the “Go To Time” dialog box, and type in the exact time that you want to go to. You don’t have to type in all the zero’s or colons in front of the time code, so for instance if you want to go to two seconds and twelve frames, type “212” not “00:00:02:12”.

  Another neat feature with the “Go To Time” dialog box is that you can just type in the unit numbers you wish to advance or go back. So you could type “+18” to move forward 18 frames, “-18” to go back 18 frames, but also “+45” to forward 45 frames, and so on. Oh, by the way, this is all on the PC so if you are on a Mac you’ll just have to translate the instructions to that platform (basically command instead of Ctrl).
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  Cal Johnson

  January 18, 2007 at 5:19 pm

  I forgot to mention, if you do the typing in of number of frames or whatever that you want to move forward or back, you can type “+18” to go forward 18 frames, but to go back, you have to type “+-18” frames, because After Effects recognizes negative time, and therefore would see “-18” as “Go to -18 frames on the time line” instead of just go back 18 frames.

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