ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 7.0
User Guide
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Animation presets
About animation presets
Animation presets let you save and reuse specific configurations of properties and animations, including keyframes,
effects, and expressions.
After Effects includes hundreds of animation presets that you can drop into your projects and then modify to suit
your needs.
You can apply an entire animation preset to a layer, or you can apply a single effect or property from an animation
preset. If a property or effect exists in the animation preset but not in the target layer, the property or effect is added
to the target layer.
See Gallery of animation presets for animated illustrations of animation presets included with After Effects.
Many animation presets don’t contain animation; rather, they contain combinations of effects, transform properties,
and so on. You can save one or more properties with all of the desired settings to an animation preset without
including keyframes. A particularly convenient category of animation presets is behaviors, which you can use to
quickly and easily animate without keyframes.
Animation presets can be saved as FFX files and transferred from one computer to another. By default, animation
presets are stored in the Presets directory.
For additional information, go to Adobe Studio on the Adobe website.
Adobe periodically provides updates to software and Help. To check for updates, click the Preferences button in
Adobe Help Center, and then click Check For Updates. Follow the on-screen instructions.
See also
“To apply an animation preset” on page 202
To apply an animation preset
1 Select one or more layers.
2 Do one of the following:
• Select the animation preset in the Effects & Presets panel, and then drag the preset to the selected layer in the
Timeline, Composition, or Effect Controls panel.
• To apply a recently used or saved animation preset, choose Animation > Recent Animation Presets, and then
choose the animation preset from the list.
• To apply selected effects from within an animation preset, press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), select
the effects in Effects & Presets, and then drag them to the Timeline, Composition, or Effect Controls panel. If the
individual effects and properties within an animation preset do not appear, choose Show Preset Contents from the
Effects & Presets panel menu.
• Choose Animation > Browse Presets, navigate to the animation preset you want, and then double-click the
animation preset to apply it to the selected layer.
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