Tip 056 - How To Quickly Offset Layers in After Effects

[@JonnFrost]

6 years later and you are still taking me to school. Thanks Sergei!

[@QuantayPeoples]

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[@manxman300]

AWESOME!! Just did a project manually, one layer at a time, 20 layers. Bugged me to have to do that and so I went searching, but was not sure what keyword to use. Finally found this tutorial and learned several time savers. Thank you ukramedia!

[@deliberatevideo]

You just saved me a TON of time, I was about to do this manually for 112 clips. I needed the layers to be staggered and overlapping which "sequence layers" alone wasn't doing for me, I love the bracket trick. Thank you very much!

[@naranciofilms]

The only KZbinr who made me search his name on the web, well done Ukramedia!

[@ellismberman]

OMFG! You're the king! Been pulling my hair out all morning trying to figure this out. Can't thank you enough.

[@ezprocessmanager9221]

Old But Gold, Thank you Ukramedia guy

[@dopestuffs6529]

so good when we found objective tutorials, thanks a lot mate!

[@StephenArts]

Best Quickly explained Sequence explanation I've ever heard/seen. And additional tricks I didn't know existed, especially CMD+RMB selecting in order of desired appearance. NICE!

[@afatasidylan]

Oh hell yeah. I love that it's selection-based. This would be mind-numbing to do by hand.

[@seiju9986]

Perfect, was looking for the sequence bit! Thanks a lot

[@TheLegoBrick]

I had so many layers and it was becoming such a pain! This is amazing and got everything perfectly how I wanted it in just a couple seconds. Thank you!!! Will definitely be using this trick all the time!

[@ashaproductionslabs190]

brother u saved my life i cant tell grateful i am to u for this i was love u broo always

Hello, thank you so much for such a useful tuto

[@tuan1989]

same problem here

[@tuan1989]

I fixed it by changing my keyboard to qwerty.

[@Brandonbraun]

DUDE THIS IS SO HELPFUL THANK YOU

[@sampathamarathunga1937]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing the knowledge.

[@pavel.suchkov]

It's nice to look for something on youtube and find exactly what I need, even moreso, to see that I've already liked the video and subbed the channel some time ago! So thank you again! :)

[@DakNJaxter]

Thanks! Just what I needed.

[@marioskapsis5190]

Excellent Tutorial!

[@cheyrasmussen264]

Wow, wish I'd have known this like 5 years ago. Thanks for the vid!

[@FranziskaR-gg8yo]

Your wish came true, you've found this video 5 years ago XD

[@kingjamesofengland]

Love this tip! Only I can't make it work as I don't have an English keyboard. What is the menu equivalent of OPT+ ] for Mac, for those of us with foreign keyboards?

[@jagdishkumardesert]

you saved lots of time, thank you

[@paveelomar1131]

thanks for the tutorial

[@SportData_ES]

Hi, there is a way to undo the offset but not ctr +z way because i have already worok on many diferent things ? Thanks and nice video

[@deadon17]

This was really helpful.. I have a question though.. once I have placed all of it and now I need to get all the layers to start point to change certain things. how do I get all the layers to the start point?

[@nikatuma]

exactly what Im looking for, thank you

[@luwluwww]

I love these Tips! Keep bringing them.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Goran!

[@luwluwww]

I bet you were a Programmer before you started Video Editing. Anyways, thanks again for awesome videos

[@ukramedia]

I wish. I started learning expressions less than a year ago. :-)

[@HatimShabbirHussain]

Beautiful ❤️ to the point

[@toozigooti]

Simply amazing. This will save me so much time in the future. Thank you!

[@ukramedia]

I'm glad you found this useful!

[@jeffmonnery]

Excellent tip! Love it, thank you Sergei!

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Jeff!

[@quangtram7740]

Thank you so much!

[@ukramedia]

Glad it helped!

[@user-fo9ce3hr5h]

you are amazing. i really used this.

[@stevenk6922]

Really helped me out, thanks

[@sichen7093]

Thank you!! Life saving

[@camiloestebanramirezcardon2696]

My ] only apears when I push Ctrl, and if I push Ctrl + alt + ] doesnt works, can you help me... thanks

[@camiloestebanramirezcardon2696]

now i work it out: Ctrl+alt+ , and Ctrl+Shift + ,

[@remocreative]

Fantastic tip!

[@harshit_tomar]

Thanks a lot! you saved my life

[@vesto6864]

Thank you so much 🤝🤝🤝

[@agencehetcetera8606]

Really helpful, thanks!

[@ybaucarre8369]

thank you for saving me 40€ instead of buying the skew extension !! :)))

[@colinmoore1571]

Awesome, thanks man. Helped me this morning.

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU! You should check out our free After Effects tool called deLayer. I think you'll find it very handy.

[@bingolie]

Is there a way of distributing objects evenly across the canvas like in this video, but with the objects being different objects? So not just one and the same object?

[@mondexproduction]

Thanks man

[@bshenlow882]

Never thought of this though. Gonna try that later since I use them a lot

[@ukramedia]

:-)

[@MAY-bm3lh]

You saved me hours of work thank youuuu

[@danair5575]

Thanks so much, dude. I was breaking my head to remember this.

[@Totorus]

Thanks for sharing!!!

[@nyvar]

Question: When selecting the layers in the order you wanted your pop-up said "CTRL + RMB". SHould that not be "LMB"? Thanks. Awesome tip as usual.

[@ukramedia]

Oops... you're right. I got my left and right confused, I tend to do that often. lol Sorry about that.

[@puloxida]

Is this magic ? DAMN thank you bro

[@puloxida]

Okay, i might have been excited too soon. I can't use the shortcut "alt + ]". I'm on azerty, french keyboard, and can't seem to find this shortcut bind, any clue on how to solve it ?

[@literallyshane4306]

You just saved me so much time! thank you sir 😀

[@artsymae21]

super quick easy and helpful thx!

[@piasmaker5173]

SIMPLE AND ON POINT!

[@mariobothge3544]

Hi, we can make this to Schale random Objekts and random Offset ???

[@jamesmcilwraith7367]

Your tips are great!

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, James!

[@maithaaldaisi4271]

thank you for this helpful video

[@user-xf7qr8fb6q]

Thank you for the amazing time saver of a tip!

[@tpvnVids]

This! ❤‍🔥

[@shakils1921]

is it possible to make a script with a button just for do the same simple thing?

[@ukramedia]

Yes. We have a free script that does that at ukramedia.com/delayer/. I hope this helps! - Sergei

[@shakils1921]

@@ukramedia I know it from you sir, but i'm looking for something exactly like Sequence layer in AE. If I have 3 layers 1st one 7 Seconds 2nd one is 10 and 3rd one 25 second layer should start at 7 sec when 1st one is end. Exactly as default one but need a button to do it quickly.

[@avnojista]

wow thx for this, time saver

[@sedovadesign7422]

Love it. Thanks

[@emilysalander2207]

Unfortunately, the square bracket shortcut doesn't work for me. Is there any other way?

[@CalvinThang12]

Thank you so much~! This is what i need :D

[@KhacHuyVacs]

very good, thank you so mush

[@leelameka]

Thank you!

[@Capow1]

Brilliant and very useful; thank you so much

[@Globesoff]

Эх, раньше бы! Столько времени потрачено :(Спасибище!

[@ukramedia]

:-)

[@Nixably]

An awesome tip and good to know the foundation of this tip. I use Mr. Horse's transition shifter which is free and quicker than having to make your layers 3 frames then extending them. Just trying to be helpful, I believe it's free as part of his animation composer script.

[@ukramedia]

You're right, using a script is a much better solution. I just wanted to show another way to do it without using a script. At my previous job, we weren't allowed to install personal scripts and that was an issue. So it pays to know alternative ways. :-)

[@galaga00]

yeah, RIFT is an awesome tool for offsetting as well. Couldn't live without it.

[@alexandrugrecov8964]

very good explained and useful.

[@ukramedia]

Thank you, Alexandru!

[@PURPLE_SHADE_SMOOTHIE]

Super helpful!!!! Thank you

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU, Andrew!

[@BluezConcepts]

alt + ] doesn't work for azerty keyboards :/

[@svivan20]

Wow very helpful! However in AE cc2020 alt+] doesn't work for me! Only split on time with ctrl+shift+d works! 😭 Someone?

[@English_kr]

wow ~ nice tip

[@TY_Blender]

thx for quick tutorial

[@seeeee7883]

thank you!

[@XRockgirl]

thank youuu!

[@starcoreart]

awesome! thanks a lot

[@JoshWilliamsVisuals]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[@EduTerrataca]

great as always

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Edu!

[@timovideogames]

this saved my ass, thank you!

[@fazlaslan6808]

Thanks man.

[@Fabitalism]

Somehow Alt + 6 is not working for me, to shorten the layer (Mac OS here) :/

[@bluewavestudio8929]

this is helpful, thanks

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU!

[@cgdata9213]

Saved my day! Slava Ukraine!

[@duchuu964]

great....many thanks

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU, Duc Huu!

[@edwardnasrawi7949]

Great video, I have a question if anyone can assist, I am searching for a way to create an effect of multiple object falling from height (scale down) and to make the final shape, I dont know how to search for this effect. Thank you in advance

[@Chewbacca2000]

Thanks man!

[@ukramedia]

Happy to help!

[@mayurkalsulkar2653]

thank you dude

[@abc229_Ab]

at the first place how to put all logos in staright line and duplicating each logo individually?

[@usernametentwo]

GOD BLESS YOU

[@rulric8772]

U -> THE KING

[@WelstownStudios628]

Thanks !

[@swarajemaratha]

What if i have multiple shapes in a shape layer instead for multiple layers. how to auto offset keyframes or quick hack to do the same thing. problem starts from selecting the keyframes Ctrl+Alt+A selects only visible keys. may be if AE can gets the layers separated automatically, we can use this technique then.

[@swarajemaratha]

// Create individual layers for shape groups // Get the selected layer var selectedLayer = app.project.activeItem.selectedLayers[0]; // Check if the selected layer is a shape layer if (selectedLayer instanceof ShapeLayer) { // Get the number of shape groups var numShapeGroups = selectedLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").numProperties; // Loop through each shape group for (var i = 1; i 0; j--) { if (j !== i) { duplicatedLayer.property("ADBE Root Vectors Group").property(j).remove(); } } // Move the duplicated layer to a new position in the timeline duplicatedLayer.startTime = selectedLayer.startTime + i - 1; } }

[@CharalampidisVFX1615]

thank you very much

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU!

[@ghadafaisal5020]

thanks a lot!

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU, Ghada!

[@khuephan4637]

how to do it but instead the staircase going down, can we make it go up?

[@dhavalpatel-le4kf]

great

[@ayeshakhaliq510]

Thank you!!!

[@Mr.Hasani]

its amazing tips

[@ukramedia]

Glad you think so!

[@jestertitus7466]

Awesome !

[@ukramedia]

Thank you, Jester!

[@sendd1555]

its amazing thanks