Tutorial 121: Quick Tips 07

[@dank5263]

Regarding the folder trick, you can also drag and drop stuff on the comp icon and it will make a new comp with the size of whatever you dropped in. The dragging of stuff on icons works the same in Photoshop and Premiere. In PS you can drag a layer on the mask icon to make a mask, in Premiere you can drag a clip on the sequence icon and it will make a seq with the length and size of whatever you dragged in. Thanks for the series, learning new stuff every day.

[@Workbenchtv]

That they do. I didn't know about the Photoshop one. That's handy. Thanks!

[@abettermindthebestmeditati7220]

Wow. Thank you. These are the tips that change a workflow significantly.

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks! I am very happy to hear that!

[@adrianolopes_sp]

What an amazing channel. Thank you

[@Workbenchtv]

Thank you for the kind words!

[@wadjannah]

for the tip 5:33 you don't need to drag .. just select your compositions and hold shift and click new folder icon and you'll have a folder with all the selected compositions ... thanks

[@Workbenchtv]

That doesn't work for me. :/ I even tried shift + other modifier keys. All variants only create a new folder.

[@wadjannah]

I'm soooo sorry i think i made a mistake and conflict with photoshop.... I"m so sorry :/😅😁

[@wadjannah]

that's works only in photoshop

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha, no worries!

[@moboxgraphics]

Wow #2 was great

[@Workbenchtv]

That one could have probably saved me a month of my life had I known it earlier, haha.

[@CatalinGulan]

As usually Joe...Awesome! Deep understanding of things! A REAL PRO!

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks Catalin!

[@fgarciaish]

I use a lot of these regularly, but those anchor point ones are a gem! One thing... I've always used CTRL-8 to make a marker, BUT it wasn't until recently that I was working with a few other AE guys on a big project that I realized you can just grab that marker icon at the far right of the timeline panel and just keep dragging markers in ad infinitum! Somehow I went a good six years without ever knowing that. :/

[@Workbenchtv]

Yeah, it's slower though so I never use it. ;) It would be faster if you just need random markers and don't care where they go. But that seems to be unlikely, haha.

[@craftycurate]

I was gonna say that watching your quick tip videos is a bit like munching through a bag of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups of techie goodness, except that it's mixed nuts and raisins and stuff now that I've gone all healthy.

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha. Nice.

[@scratchman]

It was about to hit the corner and you ended the movie!!! Thank you for this.

[@Workbenchtv]

I should have done that and timed it out. Thanks!

[@mussen909]

nice feed bro. thanx a lot

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks!

[@Rombododecaedron]

mul-function can give interesting possibilities :) Thanks for the idea :)

[@Workbenchtv]

Yep. You can always multiply them manually as well-[x*2,y*3] for example. That's also what you have to do if you need to multiply by different values.

[@LiamCarlinTests]

Haha thanks Joe!

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks for watching, Liam!

[@elissitdesign]

Option double click on the pan behind tool to center the point as well.

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks, Eric! That's the one that I did in the last Quick Tips that people gave me this tip for, haha.

[@Roran97]

Solid stuff!

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks! Quick Tips is my favorite series.

[@FLOWTUTS]

❤ ohhh man you made my life with the last one ahahaha

[@Workbenchtv]

Haha, thanks!

[@jonathanlutjens6284]

YEEEES! Will AE ever end? No.

[@Workbenchtv]

I hope not, but I always hope that it improves. :)

[@themisterjordan]

Wow, I did not know that folder trick - thanks a ton! I'm not sure if it's kosher to recommend 3rd party plugins, but there's one called "Motion 2" that will let you click on a button and it'll change your anchor point to any of the cardinal and ordinal directions as well as centering it. Super helpful, but it is a plugin and not a built in thing, so if anyone ever tests you and says, "no plugins!", you're out of luck.

[@Workbenchtv]

Yep. It's fine to mention it, haha. That's just a useful shortcut if you don't have Motion 2. And the folder trick is awesome-praise be to Severo. I still don't know why you can't just click it though.

[@Eliferd]

Smoothgasm.

[@Workbenchtv]

SoSmoov

[@Eliferd]

Asiimov

[@p-a4298]

Just tried the quick color choose thingy. Vertically is saturation, horizontally is hue. Too bad we can't add a modifier to set the luminance. Thanks for all the tips :)

[@Workbenchtv]

I thought that but it didn't seem like it held. I could be wrong though.

[@Workbenchtv]

OK, so I lied. It does happen. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKHGZoJ7bpmCjMk I vaguely recall that happening when a teacher left a DVD player on in class one day and everyone nearly cheered during a lecture when it finally hit the corner for the perfect bounce. Anyway, if you have a windows laptop that doesn't have a function setup for number pad, is there a shortcut you use to do things like numpad previews?

[@forzimus]

Thanks for great tips! Also what is Taxonomy script you are using?

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks! Taxonomy is something that's currently in development. Honestly it's most of the way there, I just need to add a little bit of functionality and then it'll be done. I mostly need some time to finish it. :)

[@elefent5574]

dope

[@Workbenchtv]

Thanks!

[@David994]

What key is home? :S

[@Workbenchtv]

You need a full size keyboard for it. It's usually above the arrows.

[@cejay89]

@@Workbenchtv it‘s "fn" + "left arrow" on my macbook!