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Move keyframes in time



You can move keyframes in time, either individually or as a group.

Jeff Almasol provides a versatile script on his website that creates a panel with controls for moving various combinations of items in time—layer In point, layer Out point, layer source frames, keyframes, and markers: www.adobe.com/go/learn_ae_jeffscooter.

Move keyframes to another time

With multiple keyframes selected, you can copy or delete them simultaneously or move the keyframes together without changing their positions relative to each other.

  1. Select one or more keyframes.
  2. Drag any of the selected keyframe icons to the desired time. If you selected multiple keyframes, then all of the selected keyframes maintain their relative distance from the keyframe that you drag.

Move a keyframe to a specific time

  1. Move the current-time indicator to the desired time.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • In layer bar mode, hold down Shift after you begin to drag a keyframe icon to the current-time indicator.

    • In Graph Editor mode, drag a keyframe to the current-time indicator.

    When you drag over the current-time indicator, the keyframe snaps to the current-time indicator.

Expand or contract a group of keyframes in layer bar mode

  1. Select at least three keyframes.
  2. Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the first or last selected keyframe to the desired time.