[Cole Bo]

Hi Chris! Not sure if you’re still having the issue or not.
Here is what I have in my Ft. Toolbar2:

Button Parameters: ANIMATION PRESET
~/Documents/Adobe/After Effects CC 2018/User Presets/Layer Styles/Inner Shadow.ffx

Not sure if this is helpful or not for your situation. That’s the method I use for FT Toolbar2

[Cole Bo]

I’m a bit late to the party (only 5 years). But using a combination of 2 shortcuts (select all keyframes then delete them) it can be done. Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but it may come in handy!

1) Select the layer(s)
2) Push the U key (This will reveal all keyframes on the selected layers)
3) Push Ctrl + Alt + A (This will highlight all keyframes that are showing)
4) Delete (This will delete all selected keyframes)

There is another one for deleting expressions as well. I use this for compositions I’ve duplicated and no longer want the expressions on. So instead of going through and deleting each expression individually:

0) Assuming all layers inside the composition are collapsed before doing this
1) Select the layer(s)
2) Push the E key twice (Known as EE) (This will also reveal all expressions within the layers selected)
3) Push Ctrl + Alt + A (This will highlight all keyframes that are showing)
4) Push Alt + Shift + = (This will delete all expressions)
5) If you want to get rid all the effects too (Slider expressions or anything else)
6) Ctrl + Shift + E (Deletes all effects)

Hope this helps!

[Cole Bo]

Something that I generally will do is go to the project panel and search “Unused”. This will show everything that is not being used. From my understanding, that does the same thing as Reduce Project. If you have any unnecessary duplicates of footage, solids, compositions or any other project material. Then I would recommend checking out a script called Project Cleaner on the AEscripts website. It’s a free script you can download too. Hope this helps!

[Cole Bo]

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[Cole Bo]

Somewhat a common issue, but it also depends on what your computer specs are too. In my experience, I usually just render the After Effects project with After Effects, then I will bring the file over to Media Encoder.

[Cole Bo]

No worries! You can’t see what’s inside the composition because the window you have opened is the layer window. To view the preview for the composition, double click the “Arrows in View” in your project panel. This should fix the issue

[Cole Bo]

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Thank you again Walter for your response!

[Cole Bo]

Thank you Chris for your reply, I highly appreciate knowing that I’m not alone on wanting a shortcut like this. Because it would save a ton of time! I just finished submitting the request too. Hopefully they take into account on how helpful this would be for editors. I’ve searched through similar forums and there are people who have been requesting this for nearly 4 years! I suppose we’ll have to be patient, but it will be worth it. Again, thanks for your helpful reply!

[Cole Bo]

Try holding down Ctrl + Alt then click on one of the mask points.

[Cole Bo]

My guess is that the some of the faces are inside of a pre-composition. Then the CC Reptile effect is applied to the pre-composition while the collapse transformation is on.

As for the “bounce” effect:
You’ll need to apply an expression to the scale property of the layer. (Alt + Left Click the scale stopwatch)
Then paste this expression, that was created by Dan Ebberts, into the expression field:

freq = 3;
decay = 5;

n = 0;
if (numKeys > 0){
n = nearestKey(time).index;
if (key(n).time > time) n–;
}
if (n > 0){
t = time – key(n).time;
amp = velocityAtTime(key(n).time – .001);
w = freq*Math.PI*2;
value + amp*(Math.sin(t*w)/Math.exp(decay*t)/w);
}else
value

You can find more information here: https://www.motionscript.com/articles/bounce-and-overshoot.html
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