User Guide

CHAPTER 5
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Animating Layers
3 Choose Edit > Copy.
4 In the Timeline window containing the destination layer, move the current-time
marker to the point in time where you want the keyframes to appear.
5 Do one of the following:
• To paste to the same property of the copied keyframes, select the destination layer.
• To paste to a different property from the copied keyframes, select the destination
property.
6 Choose Edit > Paste.
Moving a layer duration bar independently of its keyframes
Once you set keyframes, they maintain their position relative to their layer’s duration bar.
If you move the duration bar earlier or later in the composition, its keyframes move with
it. You can prevent this by cutting and pasting keyframes.
To move keyframes without moving the layer duration bar, select the keyframes and drag
them. See “Moving keyframes” on page 166. You can also change the displayed frames of
a trimmed layer without moving either its keyframes or the layer duration bar. See
“Moving a trimmed layer in time” on page 141.
To move a layer duration bar but not its keyframes:
1 Make a note of the time at which the first keyframe appears.
2 In the layer outline, click the name of one or more layer properties containing the
keyframes you want to keep at the same times.
3 Choose Edit > Cut.
4 Move or stretch the layer duration bar to its new In and Out points.
5 Move the current-time marker to the time at which the first keyframe appeared before
you cut the keyframes.
6 Choose Edit > Paste.
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