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  How do I view just one keyframable property in a layer?

  Posted by Frank Manno on March 18, 2009 at 2:17 am

  Sorry for this very beginner question – I’m starting up with AE again after a long long break and for the life of me I can’t remember how do view just one property in an effect.

  For example, you press P to view the position property or T for opacity.

  But when adding an effect which has lots and lots of parameters, how do I view just the one I want?

  In this particular case, I’m using Trapcode Sound Keys and just want to see the ‘Output’ keyfram/property not the whole ‘tree structure’ to get to it. How can I do this?

  -Frankie

  Jason Brown replied 17 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  March 18, 2009 at 7:49 am

  You can hide the properties that you don’t want to see by Alt+Shift-clicking them.

  Though there isn’t a shortcut for just showing the specific property of SoundKeys that you mention, there are shortcuts for the most common couple of dozen properties.

  Also, SS is a convenient shortcut for showing selected properties or property groups.

  (See “Shortcuts: showing properties and groups in the Timeline panel”.)

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  Frank Manno

  March 18, 2009 at 7:52 am

  Thanks..
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  Jason Brown

  March 20, 2009 at 4:01 pm

  I didn’t know about the SS shortcut…that is a nice one to get what you want.

  In addition, the way I use mostly is pressing *u* will show you all keyframed properties…pressing *uu* will display all properties that have had their values changed, keyframed or not.

  -Jason

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