Sometimes you’ll have a layer with effects, masks, expressions, or various settings, and you’ll want to change the source of that layer (i.e., keep the layer, but change which file in the Project panel those effects and settings are applied

A lot of new artists like to duplicate their loop-able clips when they want to extend them or have them loop several times. A more efficient way to do this is to re-interpret your footage. Select the footage that you

After Effects allows you to save your current project into a previous version of AE. This is very useful, especially if you need to send out your project file to a colleague who is still using an older version of

Sometimes you have many files inside your After Effects file that you no longer need or use. Help AE perform better by de-cluttering your project file. Go to File > Dependencies > Remove Unused Footage to remove any files within

If you want to loop your keyframe animations, use the expression loopOut(“PingPong”). This will continuously loop your animation until the end of your composition. Here’s a keyframe animation that uses this expression: