March 17, 2009 by John Dickinson | 3,139 views | Comments (9)
In this 4 minute video tip learn about precomposing, versioning and the must-know shortcut for copying and pasting. No more pasting layers the hard way.
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9 Responses to this post
March 17, 2009 at 1:34 am |
Great timesaver! I was looking for this since months – thanks a lot.
March 17, 2009 at 1:47 am |
yes, it’s these kinds of shortcuts that can mean less making and more designing.
March 17, 2009 at 4:52 am |
So simple, I’ve been looking for this shortcut forever! Thank you!
March 17, 2009 at 7:34 am |
Oh, Good Lord. I feel like a dope. Been goin’ the long way ’round the barn for years! Thanks for the timesaver, John.
March 17, 2009 at 4:44 pm |
yes shortcut works also when you copy footage from PP time line and paste in AE, very usefull,thanks as always
March 21, 2009 at 7:15 am |
Cool shortcut tip
thanx
June 1, 2009 at 2:58 pm |
Nice little tidbit there, John. Love to see these simple shortcuts on your Twitter during my day – some come in very handy.
June 3, 2009 at 4:25 pm |
good to know, but you can also just hit cmd+v (because you’re used to it, you know you are) and then “[” to snap the layer to the current frame in the timeline. either way works, of course.
June 3, 2009 at 4:35 pm |
Right Jeremiah. The problem with that method comes when you are pasting multiple layers. Hitting the [ key will bring all the layers back to start at the same time (at the current time indicator) and you lose the time offset that was setup before the layers were cut.
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