Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 18 minutes ago

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Starting off the new year with a list of 20 tips and tricks to improve and speed up your workflow in After Effects.

Start the new year off by mastering After Effects. In this video I go over 20 tricks and tips to make you an After Effects master.

0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Increase handle and point size
0:43 - Project Templates
1:16 - Mini Flowchart
1:38 - Advance Frame By Frame
1:54 - Next Keyframe
2:04 - Overlord - battleaxe.co/overlord
2:26 - Continously Rasterize
2:52 - Creatively using Nulls
3:19 - Quickly Trim Composition
3:39 - Shortcut for Comp Settings
3:51 - Staggering Layers
4:13 - Snap to Layer
4:34 - Replace Layers while retaining attributes
5:10 - Shadows with CC Slant
5:31 - Time- Reverse Keyframes\
5:49 - Transform Effect
6:11 - Retiming Keyframes
6:34 - coolors.co
7:07 - Move Mask
7:31 - Select layers by group
7:50 - Buttcapper by BattleAxe - battleaxe.co/buttcapper

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