Why can I select a keyframe in the time line

[Chad Ramos]

This was suppose to say “Why can’t I select a keyframe in the Timeline”

Regards

Chad

[Chad Ramos]

More info..

I can’t right-click a keyframe at all. Nothing happens.

Regards

Chad

[Joey Foreman]

Are you selecting them with the Selection Tool? (v)

Did you inadvertently lock the layer?

[Chad Ramos]

Hi,

In short..

•I am not able to right-click any keyframe
•I can only select the first keyframe in a set of keyframes if my time marker is on that keyframe. Even in this state I still can not right-click that keyframe.
•I can not left click any individual keyframes to make them “yellow”. This means I can not left click a keyframe and drag it along the timeline.

I have tried everything offered at this link with the same results listed above….

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WSB4584EEE-D060-4f67-8AEE-7AFE20BFFA2Ba.html

I am assuming this is a option that I am missing with in after effects. When I revert back to an early project I have none of these issues. So at some point today I have done something that I can’t not resolve.

And yes I am using the selection tool. I am able to drag over a region of keyframe(s) to select them. But I can not indvidual click to select one. Also, the layers are not locked.

Regards

Chad

[Joey Foreman]

Weird. Maybe the file is corrupted.
Try starting a new project and importing, not opening, that AE project file.
Then open the master comp.
If it’s still doing it, copy and paste the layers to a new comp in the new project.

[Joey Foreman]

But before you do that, be sure you’ve updated to the latest point release of AE. Some bugs were ironed out in that one.

[Todd Kopriva]

My best guess is that you’ve changed frame rate or used time-stretching after applying the keyframes. In some rare cases, that exposes a bug in which keyframes end up off of frame boundaries and aren’t selectable. I’m pretty sure that that has been fixed in the most recent version, though. (I’m not where I can look at the bug database to be sure, though.)

In any case, you should be able to select all keyframes on a property by clicking the property name. Then cut and then paste. When the ksyframes are pasted back, they should automatically go to the frame boundaries where they belong.

Of course, you might be seeing something else entirely.

Also, try selecting the keyframes in the Graph Editor and see if that works.

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[Todd Kopriva]

If you find a bug, even in After Effects CS3, go ahead and file it:
bug-report/feature-request form

The testers can make sure that we fixed it in the current version.

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