Effects and presets panel, Apply an effect or animation preset – Adobe After Effects User Manual
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Show Effects For All Color Depths
Show Effects
Show Animation Presets
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 tab of the panel to select layers.
To open or close the Effect Controls panel for the selected layer, press F3.
To select an effect, click it. To select the next or previous effect in the stacking order, press the Down arrow key or the Up arrow key,
respectively.
To expand or collapse selected effects, press the Right Arrow key or Left Arrow key, respectively.
To expand or collapse a property group, click the triangle to the left of the effect name or property group name.
To expand or collapse a property group and all of its children, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the triangle.
To expand or collapse all property groups for selected effects, press Ctrl+` (accent grave) (Windows) or Command+` (accent grave) (Mac
OS).
To reset all of the properties of an effect to their default values, click Reset at the top of the entry for the effect in the Effect Controls panel.
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 the properties of an effect to the properties used in an animation preset, choose from the Animation Presets menu at the top of the
entry for the effect in the Effect Controls panel.
To show the Animation Presets menu in the Effect Controls panel, select Show Animation Presets in the panel menu.
To modify the range of an effect property, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the underlined property value for the control and
choose Edit Value from the context menu.
Effects and Presets panel
Browse and apply effects and animation presets with the Effects & Presets panel. An icon identifies each item in the panel by type. Numbers within
the icons for effects indicate whether the effect works on a maximum of 8, 16, or 32 bits per channel.
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 search box at the top of the panel.
The options that you choose in the Effects & Presets panel menu determine which items are shown:
Shows effects that work with any color depth, not only the effects that work with the depth of the current
project.
Shows all available effects.
Shows all animation presets, including animation presets saved by you in the Presets folder.
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.
Use the following commands in the panel menu to manage your effects and animation presets:
Reveal In Explorer (Windows) or Reveal In Finder (Mac OS)
Opens the folder that contains the effect or animation preset selected in the Effects & Presets panel.
Refresh List
Updates the list of effects and animation presets.
Chris and Trish Meyer provide a video on the
that introduces effects and animation presets and shows how to use the Effects
& Presets panel.
Apply an effect or animation preset
Chris & Trish Meyer give tips on applying and using effects in an article on the
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