
AFTER EFFECTS CS3
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• To select all keyframes that follow or precede a selected keyframe, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac
OS) a keyframe, and choose Select Previous Keyframes or Select Following Keyframes.
Note: The Select Previous/Following Keyframes commands aren’t available if more than one keyframe is selected.
See also
“About animation, keyframes, and expressions” on page 183
“Work with the Graph Editor” on page 184
“Shortcuts for keyframes” on page 650
“Shortcuts for showing properties in the Timeline panel” on page 647
Keyframe menu commands
When you select one or more keyframes, the keyframe menu becomes available at the bottom of the Graph
Editor.
To open the keyframe menu, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a keyframe.
[Value] Displays the value of the selected keyframe. If more than one keyframe is selected, the Display Value
command is available, which displays the value of the highlighted keyframe in the selection.
Edit Value Opens a dialog box in which you can edit the value of the keyframe.
Select Equal Keyframes Selects all keyframes in a property that have the same value.
Select Previous Keyframes Selects all keyframes preceding the currently selected keyframe.
Select Following Keyframes Selects all keyframes following the currently selected keyframe.
Toggle Hold Keyframe Holds the property value at the value of the current keyframe until the next keyframe is
reached.
Keyframe Interpolation Opens the Keyframe Interpolation dialog box.
Rove Across Time Toggles Rove Across Time for spatial properties.
Keyframe Velocity Opens the Keyframe Velocity dialog box.
Keyframe Assistant Opens a submenu with the following options:
• Convert Audio To Keyframes Analyzes amplitude within the composition work area and creates keyframes to
represent the audio.
• Convert Expression To Keyframes Analyzes the current expression and creates keyframes to represent the
property values it describes.
• Easy Ease Automatically adjusts the influence into and out of a keyframe to smooth out sudden changes.
• Easy Ease In Automatically adjusts the influence into a keyframe.
• Easy Ease Out Automatically adjusts the influence out of a keyframe.
• Exponential Scale Converts the rate of change in scale from linear to exponential.
• RPF Camera Import Imports RPF camera data from third-party 3D modeling applications.
• Sequence Layers Opens the Sequence Layers assistant.
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