You will see it takes up for a fairly large chunk of the timeline; so, we are going to keep it closer now and we are going to look at how we can navigate the time indicator with physically dragging it around. Because sometimes when you are doing animations, you want to move a certain number of frames at a time.
You might be trying to do some very quick titles after up here every ten frames something like that. That is possible to move to move the time indicating numerically by key board short cuts.
Now, you have already seen home to take you to the beginning of the timeline, hitting the end key will automatically take you to the very end of the timelines. So, very quick and easy option there.
Let us go back to home again for just one second, if you want to move a single frame along the timeline, all you have to do is hit the page down key on your keyboard. Everytime you hit that is going to move one frame along in the timeline and naturally if you use page up.
It is also going to backtrack by a single frame. So, I'm going to all the way to home again. However, if you need it to move 10 or 20 frames, that is going to be a lot of clicks to actually get you to that point. So instead, hold down the shift key and then hit page down.
You will notice that everytime you now hit it, it is going to give you a 10 frame jump. Keep going, keep going, keep going, you can work your way back and forth with that shift key and make it much faster to navigate.
So, with this in mind if I'm back at zero seconds, it is very easy to jump to one second along which is effectively 30 frames per second if we are using drop frame time code. Simply holding down shift and hitting page down one, two, three times will take you a long one second exactly.
Now, another reason for moving the time indicator around is we can also apply markers in the timeline that help us pick out key points at the animation that we can maybe timed things too. So again, let us go to home just by hitting the “Home Key” and let us do “Shift+Page Down” to take us 10 frames along in the animation.
At this point, let us hold down the shift key and hit number one on the key board on the top of your key board. What is done, if you just move the time indicator of the way. It is added a comp marker here at the top that is labeled number one.
Now, if you need to move back to that mark a very quickly and easily, you can actually do so by picking up the time indicator, holding down shift key, and as you get close to number one, you will notice after effects snaps in there for you. So, if you are now trying to do another 10 frames, you can get back to that one very easily just by shifting dragging.
Now, we are going to do that. Let us do “Shift+Page Down” and go to another 10 frames on and this time let us hit “Shift 2”, to add marker number two. Now, you may also add markers randomly anywhere in the timeline, define by where view time indicator is. If I drag this all the way out here to maybe three and three quarter seconds and hit “Shift+3” that will automatically apply the new market there.
Now, just incase you need it over here on the right hand side of the timeline. There is a mark icon that will automatically add a new marker of the next number as it when you need it. But we are using a key board shortcut here which is indeed much faster than going back and forth.
However, markers can also be moved so you could always pick up marker number three here and drag it around and likewise if you are time indicator is at certain point and you need this to be exactly on that. Just do the opposite what you did the second ago instead of shift dragging the indicator in. Let us shift drag the marker in and that will snap into the current time indicator.
However, here is another option. Let us go all the way down to one second because this is in fact where we do on our third marker to appear and instead of picking up this and dragging it, you can only have one marker number three on the timeline. So, if you just hit shift three at this point, it will generate a brand new third marker at one sec
