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Navigating layers in the timeline

Navigating layers in the timeline - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects CC 2021 Essential Training: Editors and Post

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Navigating layers in the timeline

- [Instructor] As an editor, your tools inside Premiere Pro are well-made for easily adjusting the duration of your shots and working on the overall pacing of your edit. Conversely, after effects is exceptionally great at handling animations and gives you the power to tweak key frames, just as after effects is cumbersome for video editing. Likewise premiere isn't necessarily the best tool for creating animation, although you can it doesn't always mean you should. So here in this movie, we'll take a look at how to adjust your layers duration by altering the in and out points, as well as other techniques to navigate layers in the composition. So after effects and premiere have a couple of differences one of the most important ones is that inside premiere your timelines are infinitely scalable. So you can stretch and shrink this to reveal all the way down the timeline and make space for clips that you want to insert or move…

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