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Effects and animation presets
Last updated 12/21/2009
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 search box at the top of the panel.
The options that you choose in the Effects & Presets panel menu determine which items are shown:
Show Effects For All Color Depths
Shows effects that work with any color depth, not only the effects that work with the
depth of the current project.
Show Effects
Shows all available effects.
Show Animation Presets
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 Windows 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.
More Help topics
Search and filter in the Timeline, Project, and Effects & Presets panels
Color depth and high dynamic range color
Apply an effect or animation preset
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To apply an effect or animation preset to a single layer, drag the effect or animation preset from the Effects & Presets
panel to a layer in the Timeline, Composition, or Effect Controls panel.
Note: When you’re dragging an effect or animation preset onto a layer in the Composition panel, the name of the layer
under the pointer is shown in the Info panel. If you release the mouse button while dragging an animation preset when
the pointer is not over a layer, a new layer is created to hold the animation preset. If you release the mouse button while
dragging an effect when the pointer is not over a layer, nothing happens.
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To apply an effect or animation preset to one or more layers, select the layers, and then double-click the effect or
animation preset in the Effects & Presets panel.
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To apply an effect to one or more layers, select the layers, and then choose Effect > [category] > [effect].
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To apply a recently used or saved animation preset to one or more layers, select the layers, choose Animation
>
Recent Animation Presets, and then choose the animation preset from the list.
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To apply the most recently applied animation preset to one or more layers, select the layers, and then press
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+F (Mac OS).
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To apply the most recently applied effect to one or more layers, select the layers, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E
(Windows) or Command+Option+Shift+E (Mac OS).
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To apply an animation preset to one or more layers using Adobe Bridge, select the layers, choose Animation
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Browse Presets, navigate to the animation preset, and then double-click it.
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To apply the effect settings from an animation preset to the current instance of an effect, choose the animation
preset name from the Animation Presets menu for the effect in the Effect Controls panel.
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To copy effects from one layer to one or more layers, select the effects in the Timeline panel or Effect Controls panel,
choose Edit > Copy, select the target layers, and choose Edit > Paste.