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User Guide
2 Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the first or last selected
keyframe to the desired time.
To move a keyframe precisely to a different time:
1 Move the current-time marker to the desired time.
2 Hold down Shift after you begin to drag a keyframe icon to the current-time marker.
When you drag over the current-time marker, the keyframe snaps to the current-time
marker.
Copying and pasting keyframes
To use the same keyframe values at another point in time or in another layer, copy and
paste them. You can copy keyframes between layers for the same property (such as
Position) or between different properties that use the same type of data. The keyframe
properties you can copy between include the following:
• Properties within the same dimension, for example, Opacity and Rotation, which have
adjustable parameters in one dimension; or Mask Feather and 2D scale, which have
adjustable parameters in two dimensions
• Rotation, effect angle control, and effect slider control properties
• Effect color properties
• Mask properties and spatial properties (effect points, Anchor Points, etc.).
You can copy keyframes from only one layer at a time. When you paste keyframes into
another layer, they appear in the corresponding property in the destination layer. The
earliest keyframe appears at the current time, and the other keyframes follow in relative
order. The keyframes remain selected after pasting, so you can immediately move them in
the destination layer.
Note: When copying and pasting between the same properties, you can copy from more than
one property to more than one property at a time. However, when copying and pasting to
different properties, you can copy only from one property to one property at a time.
To copy and paste keyframes:
1 In the Timeline window, display the layer property containing the keyframes you want
to copy.
2 Select one or more keyframes. See “Navigating and selecting keyframes” on page 164.
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