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July 8, 2021
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Adapting a template - Unable to change animation / motion? Cannot find it!

  • July 8, 2021
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Hey all,
I'm super new to After Effects and although I'm used to Illustrator / Photoshop and previously played about in Final Cut Pro / Premiere... I've just hit a road block with this and hope you can help.

I've downloaded a template (https://elements.envato.com/bright-neon-promo-RP233F3) to edit and it's great, fairly easy to work through, however, there's certain animations I do not want to happen. For example at around 6seconds it zooms out and masks out the "envato make" word and shows up a load of round circles.

All I'd like... is for the "envato make (which I've changes to "Inspirational") to stay on screen longer. No zooming out. I am within Part_01 of the file and can see all the texts, the placeholders etc... and even on the composition screen I can pretty much select and see everything there, including the circle animation / boxing for it which zooms out. 

I'll be damned if I can find that piece of animation which zooms out though. Nothing anywhere. No keyframes, nothing under the part_01, I looked in the assests, found the circles... if I change the circles it still makes no difference. It's really annoying me as I can SEE the animation and the outlines... I have no way of just clicking through to it. You would have thought you could have clicked on it... but yeh. Nope!

I will attach some photos to hopefully help... any assistance would be HUGELY appreciative! 

Thanks again!

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Mylenium
Legend
July 9, 2021

Start by turning off the "shy guy" to show all layers and then follow the procedures Rick described.

 

Mylenium

Community Expert
July 8, 2021

Start turning off layers in the timeline until you find the layer you want to work on. 

That layer is likely a nested composition. Double click the lawyer to open the composition.

 

Keep drilling down until you find keyframes. Pressing the U key when you have a layer selected will reveal all keyframes. Pressing the E key twice will reveal all expressions. Pressing the U key twice will reveal all modified properties.

 

You can also use the flow chart and expand it to find everything that's going on in every layer and every nested composition. Here's an example of the flowchart that I posted a while ago showing how I found an effect.