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Animation

Video mode plays your composition over time. Animate controls, place video clips, and add effects that use previous frames.

Written By Massimo Albanese

Last updated About 3 hours ago

Video mode plays your composition over time. Animate controls, place video clips, and add effects that use previous frames.

Switch to Video

Choose Video in the mode selector to show the timeline and keyframe controls.

Shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + T

Scrub and play

Drag the timeline ruler to choose a time. Space plays or pauses; Left and Right step frames. Cmd/Ctrl + Left or Right jumps to the start or end.

Animate values

Set keyframes or add a motion preset, modulator, or audio driver.

Work with clips

Select a Video layer to trim the clip, set its timeline offset, and choose looping or a driven source position.

Add audio

Open Audio in the right dock to choose a file, video soundtrack, or live source. Audio drivers turn sound into parameter changes.

Use temporal effects

Trails, echoes, long exposure, persistence, time shear, and datamoshing use previous frames. Play forward to inspect their motion.

Export

Set duration and frame rate, then export the timeline.

Shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + E

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