22 Useful Tricks in After Effects You May Not Know About - Part 2 of 5

[@umersiddiqui2159]

Finally someone who is precise, clear and have teaching skills. You have no idea how your tips from both parts have helped my workflow. I am kinda surprised that bunch of kids get unbelieveable subscribers, like etc and your fan base is still not what you deserve. I wish you all the best man and looking forward for some more tutorials and tips from you. Thank you for the videos!

[@ukramedia]

Umer, you're awesome! Thanks for your kinds words! That's a good way to start the day. Your comment definitely motivates me to do more tutorials. - Sergei

[@Aquatasy]

I have been using After Effects since before Adobe even owned it. I use it for feature film effects, television animation, games, commercials, you name it. And I've considered myself to be fairly AE savvy, but you just blew me away with this and the previous video. Thank you so much for teaching this old dog some new and very useful tricks. I'm sitting here with a huge smile on my face, hootin' & hollerin' like I was at a ball game cheering on my team. Can't wait to see all your other videos. Count me as a new subscriber. Blessings to you, Sergei!

[@ukramedia]

You made my day! Thanks for the kind words! Blessings to you as well!

[@antoniopepe]

I agree with you, great video & Tricks ;)

[@andrewswift7428]

Your tutorials are great and they really move along. I wish everyone paced their tutorials so well.

[@ukramedia]

Wow! Thank you for your kind words, Andrew! Made my day!

[@AceHoffman]

Love the way you give us the standard way, too, and maybe two or three other ways. I'm a beginner and won't remember half of these, but I'll know where to find them later and know they're available if I need them. Thanks!

[@ukramedia]

+Ace Hoffman Thanks for taking the time to watch my tutorials! I appreciate it a lot!

[@trant.l.h.7235]

My friend! You are amazing, I am new to this stuff. You made these videos 3 or more years ago, still working great for me today. So thank you very much!!!

[@Zenthetix]

I just wanted to say a big thank you for your simple yet precise and to the point examples. I still have to watch video 3 but I have learnt so much. I wish everybody had your level of professionalism and presentation skills. You really are smashing this!

[@ukramedia]

+Zenthetix Thank you for your kind words! It was very encouraging to read this and it definitely made my day!

[@navypinkdesign]

you are changing my LIFE with these tips. thank you, sergei!

[@ukramedia]

That's awesome! I'm glad you found them useful!

[@LutherLumpa]

Wow. These two videos have given me huge time savings. Thank you so much.

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU!

[@Rombododecaedron]

I haven't other words except "wow!" so many unknown tricks and they all are extremely useful! Thank you very much!

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU for watching!

[@allaboutluc]

AWESOME!!!! The number 10 and 11 save my life!

[@ukramedia]

+Arianna Lucrezia Burli I'm glad to hear that! Thanks, Arianna!

[@NickKhoo]

You just blew my mind bro!! Like my brains are literally all over the floor! Thank you so much :)

[@ukramedia]

:-) Thanks Nick!

[@fsLUXE]

along the same lines as "center to view" is the align tab---really useful, you can grab multiple objects, center them, align left/right/top/bottom to either the comp or to the group selection. Really a useful panel.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks!

[@AeBlues]

Thank you. such an important topic for us AE nerds. 15 - 14:48 - did not know that! but I prefer to set a key-frame for the property I want in the effects control and then click U because it gives me just the category I want and not all the effects opened in the little space I usually have in my timeline. 20 - 17:54 - or you could just right click on the value and click reset - I'll race you for who does it faster :) but actually resetting the way you showed can be helpful say for other tools in the tools panel like parametric masks and shapes. if you created a star and changed it's default shape you could press twice on the parametric shape icon and reset it's shape behavior.

[@Jojo-sz9bh]

Thanks :) Great Tips. Some I did actually already know but some I didn't, so great video. Can't wait to speed up my workflow thanks to those tricks. Cheers!

[@ukramedia]

+Jojo That's awesome! Thanks, Jojo!

[@gvdv4367]

Solid presentation and explanatory skills. Great job! I will be referencing these videos until I can fully incorporate them all.

[@ukramedia]

George VanDerVolgen Thanks George!

[@RodionovPtr]

The best video i have seen at last time!

[@ukramedia]

Wow! Thanks, Pter!

[@TijArbi007]

Thanks a Lot U saved my Time with the Default Render Setting (CTRL+Click on Render Preset) at 15:17

[@TijArbi007]

Tij Arbi but i have the AE cc 2015 on a PC and i didn't workout :(

[@ukramedia]

Thanks Tij!

[@kyledavelaar455]

Hi Sergei, can you make a tutorial for how you made your lower thirds shown at 2:30? Thanks

[@ukramedia]

+Kyle Davelaar Hi, Kyle! I need to do that soon. A lot of people have been requesting that one.

[@oskjacobson]

For centering stuff on a mac keyboard without home, you can use the shortcut Cmd+alt+fn+left arrow key for the Anchor Point, and the same minus the alt for objects.

[@ukramedia]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that with us!

[@yaneev.t]

thank you, beautiful tutorials! there were very few i didn't know. for #15 - you can simply double-click the property in the effects window, to reveal it in the timeline! :)

[@ukramedia]

+Yaneev T Thanks for taking the time to watch it!

[@adobebooks5263]

These videos are gold! There's so many things I didn't know. And I thought I was a after effects expert LOL!

[@ukramedia]

Thank you for your kind words!

[@mykewilson9243]

Omg, I needed to know the tip at 6:40 just last Friday. I was even thinking to myself that I wished there was a way to copy property info and paste it to another element and they both update together. Had I known this, I probably could've gotten out of work early. :)

[@DunkDesign]

Really awesome ! I use After Effects since 3 years and I knew pratically nothing about this ! Thank you :)

[@ukramedia]

DunkDesign Thanks!

[@Paulieinspiration]

great tutorial again ..number 9 is great ,all of them open alot of possibilities

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Bt Paulie!

[@Paulieinspiration]

ukramedia np,, I will be watching your tutorials today,,i their great

[@ukramedia]

:-)

[@sex4beer]

awesome tips, thank you (if in the future could you print on screen these shortcuts what you using in clip, sometime some letters sounds similar and then..)

[@ukramedia]

Thanks! I agree, I'm not sure why I didn't do that. I apologize for that and I'll keep this in mind for my future tutorials.

[@yogeshverma3371]

Hi ukramedia, for your 20th tip the quickest way to reset Opacity, scale, position, Rotation and also anchor point is hold Alt on keyboard and press (L) (T) (R) keys one after one. but you have to memories this.. and lots of thanks for sharing your experience i saw all ur 3 videos.

[@ukramedia]

Awesome! Thanks, Verma!

[@MilekCOM]

You, my friend. You're a hero.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, MilekCOM!

[@MilekCOM]

:)

[@dodmedia]

Great video! Just wanted to flag an alternative for # 10 for Mac users who don't have a Home key on their keyboard. If you select your layer, hold Command and double click the "Pan Behind (Anchor Point) Tool (Y)" - 6th along in the tool bar - and it will also center your Anchor point on that object. Would be curious to know if this works for Windows using Ctrl instead of CMD key?

[@Twas-RightHere]

For anyone wondering about #10 on a mac, its: fn+command+alt+left arrow, and same for #11 but without the alt.

[@ismaellavallee7675]

absolutely awesome. this is saving me so much hassle in my work

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Ismael!

[@joemotion]

Just started with AF these are a great help - Cheers

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Joe!

[@Ricadamu]

These little things are really useful.

[@ukramedia]

Adam Cox Thanks!

[@jinkim9233]

Thanks for the tips! Well done.

[@sergeiprokhnevskiy4359]

Thanks Jin!

[@ogigabytzu532]

Man I love your style :) U rock, keep it up buddy!

[@ukramedia]

Ogi Gabytzu Thanks Ogi!

[@blink1888]

This would even more great if it had annotations of the shortcuts!! Thanks for the video its really good!

[@ukramedia]

Thanks!

[@supermykola]

I'm just learning AE and I find this and previous tutorial very useful. Thank you very much. Чи дуже дякую ))

[@ukramedia]

Thank you!

[@maxherasymenko8233]

Thanks, Sergei! It's very useful video. After that video, I solve some situation.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Max! That's good to hear!

[@mkgg1974]

Thank you very much it is very very useful, I think if you show bottom icons of keyboard (ctrl + shift ) when you talk about short cut it will be more and more clear, but thank you very much any way your work is very interested, good luck :)

[@ukramedia]

+Mohammed jame Thanks Mohammed! I did try to call out shortcuts visually in the Part 3 video.

[@AjaySharma-fo1ls]

Very Useful. Thanks a lot for sharing......:) and tell me which Adobe After Effects version you are using exactly? Mine is After Effects CC and its different than yours and less options too in it.

[@ukramedia]

I can't remember what version it was when I recorded it. It was definitely CC.

[@framefatalefilms]

Thank you for saving me thousands of hours of my life!!

[@ukramedia]

+Frame Fatale Films I know it's 11 months late... but Thank you for watching!

[@TheMightyWolve]

Trick number 5

[@ukramedia]

I agree. It's a small tip, but very useful.

[@paranoidandroid00]

Hey Sergei, thanks for a great tutorial, you are awesome. Unfortunately I have to work in a Imac. do you know wich is the center anchor point shortcut for Mac?

[@ukramedia]

Paranoid Films I'm sorry I don't own an iMac.

[@0grdt]

damn mate. youre so underrated in this social media. probs to you from a beginner. i dont know anything about ae, but you give me the power to kick all out of it :-)

[@ukramedia]

That's great to hear! Thank you for your kind words!

[@kingdomstd]

Amazing video! I had to write down 9 of those tricks so I can memorize them while I work. Thank you! Oh, and also, do you have any post or video explaining why would you prefer Windows instead of Mac for video production? I'm considering changing to Windows.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks! Learning shortcuts will give you more time to design and things to that nature. I'm definitely huge on shortcuts because time is money. As far as Windows/Mac... I'm not a PC or Mac guy. Both of them are tools and both have advantages and disadvantages. At the moment I prefer Windows over Mac because they are a lot cheaper. :-)

[@kingdomstd]

I agree. I used to be an apple maniac and believed that creative stuff could only be made in Macs. Because of the price (and some stupid problems with my Apple devices) I tried risking myself into the hackintosh world. But I'm really getting stressed. Seeing you and many other pros using Windows for video production makes me feel secure about this transition.

[@ukramedia]

I worked for shops that were either all Windows or all Macs and both systems got the job done.

[@ninok199]

Kingdom Brasil I've been using it professionally for years. You've got nothing to fear. I once got called an amateur for not using a mac. I'll never get peoples strong opinions toward a tool, esp from those who have not tried both.

[@berhanutesfaye8109]

very helpful ,thank you so much!

[@ukramedia]

+Berhanu Tesfaye Thanks, Berhanu!

[@TheLawind]

Awesome tips, thanks for the effort :)

[@ukramedia]

Thank you!

[@jherem]

Excellent tricks!!! Thank you! :D

[@ukramedia]

+JHereM Thanks for watching!

[@foxchaim5370]

pro tip : you can watch series at KaldroStream. I've been using it for watching loads of movies lately.

[@charlescolby45]

@Fox Chaim yup, I have been watching on KaldroStream for years myself =)

[@howardcollin2704]

@Fox Chaim yea, I have been using kaldroStream for months myself :D

[@semmussaev]

Absolutly awesome very usefull tips. Thank you!

[@ukramedia]

+sem mussaev I know it's 11 months late... but I still wanted to Thank You for your kind words and sorry for the late response!

[@thtatt]

You have an adorable son! Good tutorial!

[@ukramedia]

+Hong Tatt Tan Thanks! I love that kid.

[@JensMEichkorn]

Great tips! Why don't you link the time on the items in the descriptions? ;)

[@ukramedia]

Jens M Eichkorn I just linked them, thanks for the tip! - Sergei

[@ckell975]

Thank you for this, it's helping alot.

[@ukramedia]

Thank you!

[@natali.shaked]

thank you! I learn a lot

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU! You should join our free mentoring group at urkamedia.com/community. See you there!

[@bucketheadcreativellc1302]

Dude, you are quick and efficient and no F-bombs like that British guy! Nice and to the point!

[@ukramedia]

lol! Thanks, BucketheadCreativeLLC! Also, I created a Private Mentoring Group on Facebook. Here is a link to it if you want to join: facebook.com/groups/ukramedia/.

[@darringtonkemp4140]

You made some things a lot more easier definitely checking your channel for all my future video editing know hows

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Darrington Kemp! Make sure to subscribe to my channel!

[@AlexeyUtemov]

Nice shot!

[@ukramedia]

Thanks!

[@aymanfatani]

THANKS SO MUCH .. I've been looking for some of these a long time a go :) ♥

[@ukramedia]

+ayman fatani I'm glad you found it! :-)

[@rhinelime]

Can you do a tutorial on how to achieve that lower third of yours? the one at around 2:35

[@ukramedia]

ok, I'll see what I can do.

[@sunnyparmar6349]

Thanks Sir For making This video. Please... Make More After effects Video.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Sunny!

[@mihailtudor3541]

Hi there! I have a question: Really awesome and useful tips. I work in an advertisement production company and your tips really helped ease my work, but I often find myself working on a 16:9 gfx comp which I have to convert it to 4:3 for a couple of tv stations which are stuck in the Paleolithic. What I do is basically take every single graphic element and adapt it to 4:3 aspect ratio and it's the most time consuming. My question is: are there any easier ways for me to do this and keep the graphic and images ratio not distorted? Thanks!

[@ylberlujkaj5010]

very useful video! Thanks :)

[@ukramedia]

Thank you!

[@painnmygraphic]

Thanks for your teaching, I was wrong to find a quick key Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F is Animation Presets use again,Haha...

[@BarefootMediaTV]

id love to see #3 and how you made that lower thirds

[@ukramedia]

+PeglegMedia I'll have to make a tutorial on that soon. Sorry for the very late response.

[@epiphanyvideomarketing7541]

Great stuff man. I love the speed at which you go through the tricks, tips and shortcuts. Also, have you heard of this plugin "Motion 2"... it's an enormous time saver for easing, anchor points, and some other really cool and useful things.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Gary! I've heard of it, but never used it.

[@epiphanyvideomarketing7541]

You should definitely check it out.. huge time saver for us motion designers.

[@amasbconcepto]

Hello, can you please tell me which is the shortcut for MAC "Ctrl+Home"? Thnks!! I really like your tricks!

[@NanoWorldComix]

Thank you!!

[@ukramedia]

Right back at you!

[@FinancialPotion]

There's no "home key" on a mac so any thoughts on what button to hit for centering an anchor point with hot keys on a mac?

[@ukramedia]

Financial Potion I use a Mac at work and I do have it on my keyboard.

[@OminusOmnibus]

Genuinely useful stuff here - thanks very much. You've got my subscription! Do you know how to centre the anchor point, on a Macbook, when there's no HOME key? Been trying to search it, but no joy.

[@ukramedia]

Oh dang, I didn't realize that Macbooks didn't have the HOME key. Sorry to hear that and I'm not sure what the alternative to that is.

[@OminusOmnibus]

ukramedia I found out how to do it: say you're doing Centre Anchor Point (CTRL + ALT + HOME). On a Macbook it's CMD (CTRL) + ALT + FN + LEFT ARROW FN + LEFT ARROW is the Home Key. FN + RIGHT AROW is the End key.

[@ninok199]

Jimi Lund hehe, for a sec there i thought you were mad at the left arrow. "F'n LEFT ARROW!!!"

[@semmussaev]

Please, Sergei, tell us how did you make your after effects tabs' outline look blue instead of yellow.

[@MichelSatoer]

This is the new color in the latest CC version.

[@semmussaev]

Thank you, Michel!!! I see it is not adjestable.

[@mrsilver2194]

U R the best bro Thnx alot

[@ukramedia]

Abdullrahmen Aljesmi Thanks for the kind words!

[@22carmoon]

These tricks are amazing.

[@ukramedia]

Thanks Robert!

[@yanuppix]

Thank you very much for this video. I think this is amazing trick that i don't know before. This is very useful for me. :D Thank You very much. :-) GBU

[@ukramedia]

+Nurul Azizah I know it's a year late... but I still wanted to Thank You for your kind words and sorry for the late response!

[@yanuppix]

you're welcome.. keep post a great video... :-) (y) good luck :-)

[@901D]

#9! I was Watch this before But i missed it!! how easy it is!

[@ukramedia]

It's a great shortcut.

[@EasyLiv]

Thanks a lot!

[@ukramedia]

+Easy “Easy Living” Liv I know it's 11 months late... but I still wanted to Thank You for your kind words and sorry for the late response!

[@gRaffycs]

Thank you. You're awesome!

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU, Rafael! You're more awesome!!!

[@lawrencepaul457]

thank you bro it helped me

[@ukramedia]

+Lawrence Paul Thanks, Lawrence!

[@BBWinner48]

great video, but one more " Tutorial title heading " information that would be nice is to list what version its for. I am on the last Disc version , which is CS6, I do realize CC is more powerful, but after purchasing CS6 , I couldnt see spending an add'l $$ for CC.Oh well .. life goes on.. I try to look at the top left corner for either "CC" or CS6.. even though some features apply to some older versions... Again...Great Tutorial....keep up the great work.

[@ukramedia]

CS6 is still a good version, but some of the features in the video are only for CC. Again, thank you for watching! I'd love to have you in our mentoring group on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/ukramedia/.

[@olson5252]

Looking forward to more of these videos!! :)

[@ukramedia]

Thanks! I'm not sure if I should stick to After Effects or do some Cinema 4D tutorials.

[@olson5252]

After Effects for sure :)

[@sotongqu33npyc]

Hi pal May I ask what software did you use for the intro of the logo because I am trying to create something like that with the logo but I cant figure out.

[@ukramedia]

sotongqu33npyc You can get away with using only After Effects, but I did use Cinema 4D for some small elements. Good luck! Hopefully I'll have some time to make a tutorial on it soon.

[@rockstar2k]

Самый быстрый способ стать ПРО в АЕ) Спасибо Сергей!

[@ukramedia]

Spasibo, Rockstar2k!

[@jellyframe6418]

Thanks for sharing useful tips

[@ukramedia]

Thanks for watching these tips!

[@gstyle11]

u are awsome! thank you so much

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU, gstyle11!

[@hsenbarakota7632]

Good job man u deserve more than 1k

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Hsen!

[@manutdrockss4107]

wow 0 Dislyk!! i hope that stays that way coz you made my learnings lot more easier ... thanks a lot bro

[@ukramedia]

Manutd Rockss Thanks!

[@ljbernardo9824]

There's actually a 23rd for me on this video. I learned that those things are called "lower thirds" lol. Thanks again!

[@ukramedia]

+LJ Bernardo :-)

[@PirateDepp]

Very useful...good to remind! lovely son!

[@ukramedia]

Thanks!

[@galactich3r0]

Thanks!

[@ukramedia]

+Darian Rawson Thanks, Darian! Sorry for the late response.

[@Inkulabi]

woiiii (",) very helpful, 3 more videos to go!!!

[@ukramedia]

Awesome! Thank you for watching them!

[@burdenfire]

Great video

[@ukramedia]

Thanks Edward!

[@MichelSatoer]

Wow man, these (and part 1) where useful tips! I’ve been using after effects from version 3.1 (NOT CS3 ;) ) and still learned things that I didn’t know of. “Copy with property links?” I wish I knew that one before! Thanks. CTRL+ALT+B? haha I always typed IBON, this was even a startup-tip in a after effects version. One thing for (hopefully) part 3 ;), most times you only mention the keyboard shortcut. But most motiongraphers are visually oriented, and find it more useful to see where to see this option is placed in the menu. I know the keyboard shortcut is totally the way to go for fast interaction, but to memorize every shortcut you’ve mentioned in the video is a bit overwhelming. Also, if there’s a shortcut for a function in the menu, it’s mentioned besides the menu item. If it turns out I use a function a lot, I memorize the shortcut eventually. Anyway, thanks for the video. Subscribed!

[@ukramedia]

Thanks Michel for you VERY USEFUL feedback! I love people like you! I'm pretty sure that copy with property links is a new feature in either CS6 or CC.Thanks again!

[@ProAidenHD]

Great and useful video, made a .txt so I can get reminded :)

[@ukramedia]

+AidenDZN™ • Motion & Graphic Designer Thanks for watching! More to come soon!

[@ehsanjamali3075]

Thanks.it is amazing

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Ehsan!

[@srdjand1000]

Good tips for me thanks .

[@ukramedia]

Thank you!

[@srdjand1000]

I trayig to undrstand 3 programs include cinema 4d AE PS.But my native lengvage somewhate similar to Russian i have all to translate .Somtimes i feel like English is mine mother lengvage.Thansk again.

[@ValentinJesenko]

Great and easy!

[@ukramedia]

+Valentin Jesenko Thanks, Valentin! Where are you from?

[@ValentinJesenko]

+ukramedia Hi, I am from Slovenia.

[@ukramedia]

+Valentin Jesenko That's awesome! How did you find my channel?

[@ValentinJesenko]

I found your channel on Facebook after effects page. Great tutorials! I like quick and easy tutorials for everyday use.

[@jamilm1133]

waw , great tutorial

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU!

[@Dianimations_]

this is amazing !!! very helpful! and your kid is adorable ! you're from Russia ?

[@ukramedia]

Thanks, Diana! My kids are my world. I was born in Kiev, Ukraine and now I live in Charlotte, NC. Where are you from?

[@Dianimations_]

ukramedia You're welcome :) my mom is russian and dad is syrian, recently moved to Russia, not used to russians having a clean english accent like yours :D

[@ukramedia]

That's awesome! I've been in the United States for 16 years and I'm married to an American girl... so that definitely helped my English. How do you like Russia?

[@Dianimations_]

ukramedia it's great, the lack of english here is really overwhelming tho

[@ukramedia]

How did you learn English?

[@juanjm12]

#3 changed my life.

[@ukramedia]

I'm glad you found it useful, Juanzor!

[@deemon8888]

do you know how to enable drag and drop files from folder to after effects?? instead of importing, last time drag and drop was fine, but now it seems to not functioning.

[@motionsam]

4:50 - years of snapping gonna be saved! thank you!

[@ukramedia]

Awesome!

[@kabraqanmedios1522]

Faith in humanity restored :)

[@ukramedia]

Thanks!

[@zaoyeyu]

Thank you!

[@ukramedia]

Thank YOU!