Remove part of a layer’s duration, Place a layer in time – Adobe After Effects CS3 User Manual
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When performing a slip edit, you probably want to move some keyframes with the source footage—such as mask
keyframes. Other keyframes should stay where they are in time. Press Shift+F2 to deselect keyframes and leave the
layer selected.
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Drag the slip-edit bar to the left or right.
Remove part of a layer’s duration
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In the Timeline panel, set the work area to include only the portion of the layers’ duration to remove: Move the
current-time indicator to the time that the work area is to begin, and press B. Move the current-time indicator to the
time at which the work area is to end, and press N.
2
Do one of the following:
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Select the layers from which to remove a section.
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Select the Lock switch
for layers that you do not want affected by the extraction. Press F2 to deselect all layers.
Note: If no layers are selected, the following step removes the section from all unlocked layers.
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Do one of the following:
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To remove the section and leave a gap of the same duration as the removed section, choose Edit > Lift Work Area.
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To remove the section, choose Edit > Extract Work Area. The gap is closed by ripple deletion.
See also
“Set the work area” on page 112
Place a layer in time
The layer duration bar represents the layer duration visually. The In, Out, and Duration columns in the Timeline
panel represent the layer duration numerically.
Note: To choose which columns are visible in the Timeline panel, choose Columns from the panel menu, or right-click
(Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) a column heading.
These procedures move the entire layer in time.
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To set the In point or Out point numerically, click the number in the In or Out column for the layer in the Timeline
panel.
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To move the In point or Out point to the current time, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the number
in the In or Out column for the layer in the Timeline panel.
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To move the In points of selected layers to the beginning of the composition, press Alt+Home (Windows) or
Option+Home (Mac OS).
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To move the Out points of selected layers to the end of the composition, press Alt+End (Windows) or Option+End
(Mac OS).
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To move selected layers one frame later, press Alt+Page Down (Windows) or Option+Page Down (Mac OS). To
move selected layers 10 frames later, press Alt+Shift+Page Down (Windows) or Option+Shift+Page Down
(Mac OS).
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To move selected layers one frame earlier, press Alt+Page Up (Windows) or Option+Page Up (Mac OS). To move
selected layers 10 frames earlier, press Alt+Shift+Page Up (Windows) or Option+Shift+Page Up (Mac OS).