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BillyJack | 14 years ago | 5 comments | 3.0K views

Before I suggest a button, I thought I'd ask if I'm over looking something. I know you can select all layers when making a change to a layer and a keyframe will set for all layers, but the change you make also effects them all. What I'm looking for is a way to set a key frame without making any changes to all the layers and without having to clone the previous key on each layer. I hope that makes sense!

I'm doing compound rotations across multiple layers. Let's say from 0sec to 1sec I rotate the items on one side of the project 90 degrees on the Y axis. From 1sec to 2sec I rotate what's on top 90 degrees from the Z axis. Everything that was not effected in the first rotation starts to rotate at 0sec instead of 1sec. I need a way to set a key frame at that 1sec mark across all layers so the items in the second rotation all start from the 1sec point without with making a change to all of them.

I am afraid I am clueless here. What are you trying to do?

michiel, 14 years ago

When you make a change to a layer, it puts a key frame on the layer at the time mark where you made the change. If you select "All Layers" when you do it, the change you made effects all layers. I need a way to set a key frame on a given time mark across all layers without changing them.

BillyJack, 14 years ago

Here's a clip with two moves and another with three. On the third move, objects that where not effected in the first two moves start moving at zero time mark instead of at the beginning of the third move. Setting a keyframe across all layers after each move would solve this.

BillyJack, 14 years ago

Maybe you can create all the keyframes for all layers (as placeholders) before you start animating them?

michiel, 14 years ago

Tried that. If you set them in advance, once you make a rotation and move to the next marker, everything goes back to where it was at the zero mark and it's almost imposible to remember every previous rotation you made.

To make it work "as is", there are two things I've found that do the job, they're just a bit tidious:

After each move you have to go through every layer, copy key from the current time mark and then paste key at the new time mark before you started the next rotation.

or, and here's where I got the idea

After you make a move, goto transparency on that last layer, select "All Layers" and change it's value by .001. It's not enough to notice a change, but it does lock a key frame in place on all layers without effecting their movement.

BillyJack, 14 years ago