Lynda - After Effects Guru: Mastering the Timeline with Richard Harrington

In this course, Rich Harrington offers tips for creating a fast and efficient motion graphics workflow in the After Effects timeline?leaving you with more time for creativity. This installment of After Effects Guru reveals time-saving features for navigating to specific timecodes, adjusting keyframes, changing layer behavior and applying effects with switches, and using markers to annotate your projects.

This course was created by Rich Harrington. We are honored to host this content in our library.

Topics include:

Scrolling the timeline

Switching from frames to timecode

Using shy layers

Retiming keyframes

Nudging keyframes

Using the Draft 3D, Brainstorm, and Graph Editor switches

Frame blending with switches

Splitting, naming, and locking layers

Using composition markers

author Richard Harrington

subject Video, Motion Graphics, Compositing

software After Effects CC, CS6

level Intermediate

duration 1h 8m

released Sep 30, 2013