Timeline, layers and audio
Everyday timeline work in After Effects: splitting a layer at the playhead, trimming and slipping footage, lifting or extracting a range and finding cuts with Scene Edit Detection. The tag also covers scaling a layer to fill the frame and what happens when you push it past 100%.
Guides in this topic
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How to scale a layer to fill the frame in After Effects
Choose Fit To Comp Width or Height to fill the frame without stretching, move the crop with Position and check raster quality and pixel aspect ratio.
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How to cut and split a clip in After Effects
Split a selected layer at the current-time indicator, trim its ends, remove a middle section and set the output length, with Windows and Mac keys for each move.
