To Magnify A Portion Of The Time Graph; To See More Of The Time Graph; To Set A Work Area - Adobe AFTER EFFECTS 7.0 Manual

To magnify a portion of the time graph

Do one of the following:
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In the Timeline panel, click the Zoom In button
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Press the = (equal sign) key on the main keyboard.
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In the navigator view, drag the Time Navigator Start, or Time Navigator End, or both brackets until the time ruler
displays the portion you want.
Dragging Time Navigator Start and End brackets to magnify or shrink the part of the time ruler displayed

To see more of the time graph

Do one of the following:
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In the Timeline panel, click the Zoom Out button
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Press the – (minus) key on the main keyboard.
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In the navigator view, drag the left and right time view brackets until the time ruler displays the portion you want.

To set a work area

When you work on a composition, you may want to preview or render only part of the duration of a composition.
Do this by specifying a part of the composition time ruler as a work area. In the Timeline panel, the work area appears
in a lighter shade of gray.
Set the work area start or end point to the current time by pressing B (begin) or N (end), respectively.
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To set a work area, move the start and end work-area markers in the time ruler until they mark the start and end
of the part of the composition you want to use as a work area.
Work-area markers indicate the part of the composition displayed when previewing or rendering.
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To move the work area, drag the center of the work area bar left or right.
or drag the zoom slider.
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