Applying Effects - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 5.5 Help Manual

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Applying Effects

Learning about specific effects
All effects included in After Effects are listed and described in online Help. You can print
any Help topic at any time.
For detailed information about an effect's controls, and specific procedures on certain
effects, see the After Effects product section on Adobe's Web site.
Working with effects
When you apply an effect to a layer, the Effect Controls window opens; the effect is listed
there. Each layer to which you apply effects appears on its own tab in the Effect Controls
window. The effect is also listed in the Effects section under the layer name in the Timeline
window. If you apply additional effects to the layer, they are listed under the first effect in
the Timeline window. Effects are rendered in order from top to bottom in this list. You
change the order in which effects are rendered by dragging the effect name to a new
position in the list.
The Effect Controls window contains a variety of controls that modify the properties of an
effect, including sliders, options, color swatches, effect points, and angles.
Applying and controlling effects
You can apply or remove an effect at any time. Once you've applied effects to a layer, you
can temporarily turn off one or all the effects in the layer to concentrate on another aspect
of your composition. Effects that are turned off do not appear in the Composition window
and typically are not included when the layer is previewed or rendered. (However, in the
Render Queue window, you can specify that the composition is rendered with all effects
on, regardless of which effects you are displaying in the Composition window.) Turning off
an effect does not delete the keyframes created for any of the effect properties; all
keyframes remain until the effect is deleted from the layer.
By default, when you apply an effect to a layer, the effect is active for the duration of the
layer. However, you can make an effect start and stop at specific times, or make the effect
more or less intense over time, by using keyframes.
To apply an effect to a layer:
1 In the Timeline or Composition window, select a layer.
2 Choose a category from the Effect menu, and then choose an effect from the submenu.
Using this procedure, you can apply multiple instances of a single effect to a layer.
To open the Effect Controls window:
In the Timeline window, double-click an effect name, or choose Effect > Effect Controls.
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