Adobe After Effects CS5 - Options for Timeline Layer

Timeline of options in After Effects adds special effect to project management skills. Even if you manually change the layer in the timeline using the duration of life / traction control panel allows you to make precise changes. If you want to synchronize layers, or set the exact date, using this feature is a customizable control for selection.

How many of the changes in After Effects, hand tools are provided so you can make these changes visually. However, if you look at the panel in the lower left of tools for the timeline, you will see three icons which we will visit later, but now the third icon on the right side shows a pair of enclosed in brackets '{}'. This option opens and closes the 'duration, the section of "boxes. This screen shows from start to finish, and duration of the layer in the timeline. And' the fourth column, after" in, out, their duration ", the "Stretch." This shows the percentage of "stretch" so if you stretch or shrink your coat, you change the time. This is the same screen presents Suitable for these parameters, so it might be easier to adapt and provide access exact settings, if you want the video to appear at the exact moment, or run a certain length. This tool is indispensable if you want to synchronize your floors will appear at the same time or stagger with the exact offset.

All of these controls, it is easier for you to manage your layers, and especially their temporal relationships. Being able to define the exact time sequence and exactly where it comes and goes is a powerful tool. As they begin to experiment with mixing and blending of layers of different resources, the layer management tools increasingly useful and important.

There may be a message with pictures and videos with many different topics and a very different landscape. As your online message is displayed, combining these different points of view and the normal transition from one to another with little overlap, fading in the past that the image of the new applications center stage for your message. Using the calendar command lets you change the duration of the images and define specific transition windows.

You can even use the management tools as a design tool. Say you have two layers, which begins the film with a video version of introduction to the next video. If you open the duration / stretch panel on your calendar, you can see the time repeatedly shown that you manually set the second layer. Whether it should be a little longer, you can adjust the value of stretching, and simultaneously see how long how long "in your layers.

In this sense, the monitoring tools an information tool for you so you can make visual changes while it shows exactly what time your adjustments are made. These tools are an excellent addition to your manual changes, you mix your resources together to create exactly the presentation you want.