Is there a way to repeat values to another position in timeline in After Effects? I mean, you have a key at frame 1 and one at frame 30; you would like to have the values that you currently have at frame 10 to become the values for the key at frame 20.
In Autodesk Maya, you would go to frame 10, MMB drag the timeline to frame 20 and set a key for the attributes you want keyed, because when you MMB drag in Maya the animation “freezes” and can be keyed in a different frame with the same values.
Repeat frame values in After Effects like MMB in Maya
newtaov
#1
Narntson
#2
Audodesk and Adobe work differently. The easiest thing I do to what you’re wanting to do, is go to the frame you want to “copy and move over” 1st make sure the stopwatch is activated; then right click>add keyframe. Now you have a diamond keyframe. Then control C to copy>> move over to where you want the same value, control V to paste. There you have it. Make sure your linear/flat/step tangents are set so you don’t have floating values inbetween. Maybe there’s a faster mouse hotkey, I can’t remember.
newtaov
#3
Thank you for your answer, Narntson. I knew that way you describe and I think it’s good if you have only a simple keyframe to copy, but quite tedious, if you have many keyframes to do. For example: a character with many keyframes.
The Maya way is so much faster and easier, because you don’t have to create the keyframes, copy them, etc. although you can do that way as well.
I was hoping there was a way to do it the same way I do in Maya.