Working With Effects And Animation Presets - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS CS3 PROFESSIONAL User Manual

Working with effects and animation presets

Work with effects in the Effect Controls panel
When you apply an effect to a layer, the Effect Controls panel opens, listing the effect you just applied and controls
to change the property values for the effect. You can also work with effects and change most effect property values
in the Timeline panel. However, the Effect Controls panel has more convenient controls for many kinds of properties,
such as sliders, effect control point buttons, and histograms.
The Effect Controls panel is a viewer, which means that you can have Effect Controls panels for multiple layers open
at once and can use the viewer menu in the panel's tab to select layers.
• To open or close the Effect Controls panel for the selected layer, press F3.
• To reset all of an effect's properties to their default values, click Reset at the top of the effect's entry.
• To duplicate selected effects, choose Edit > Duplicate, or press Ctrl+D (Windows) or Command+D (Mac OS).
• To move an effect to a different place in the rendering order, drag the effect up or down in the effect stack.
• To set an effect's properties to the properties used in an animation preset, choose from the Animation Presets
menu at the top of the effect's entry in the Effect Controls panel.
• To hide the Animation Presets menu in the Effect Controls panel, deselect Show Animation Presets in the panel menu.
See also
"Work with viewers" on page 19
Effects & Presets panel overview
Browse and apply effects and animation presets with the Effects & Presets panel. Each item in the panel is identified
by type with an icon:
32-bpc effect
16-bpc effect
8-bpc effect
audio effect
animation preset
You can scroll through the list of effects and animation presets, or you can search for effects and animation presets
by typing any part of the name in the Contains box.
The options that you choose in the Effects & Presets panel menu determine which items are shown:
Show Effects For All Color Depths
the depth of the current project.
Shows all available effects.
Show Effects
Shows all animation presets, including those saved by you in the Presets folder.
Show Animation Presets
The panel organizes effects and animation presets according to the option that you select from the panel menu:
Categories, Explorer Folders (Windows) or Finder Folders (Mac OS), or Alphabetical.
Shows effects that work with any color depth, not just the effects that work with
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