How do you insert a keyframe???

[kellyjaye1]

frustrated....Ive search every forum, every beginner video tutorial, the help files, etc... and nothing anywhere tells how to insert a keyframe.  How do you do this??

[shooternz]

There is a litlle STOPWATCH icon next to any parameter setting.

I am sure you will see it in the Help File but I do recomend a book  like Classroom in a Book for AEFX CS5.

Keyframes are what drives AEFX.

[Todd_Kopriva]

See this:

"Set or add a keyframe"

Since you're new to After Effects, I very strongly recommend that you start here and work your way through the materials linked to:

http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/01/getting-started-with-after-eff.html

[kellyjaye1]

thanx for the beginner stuff, Ill definitely look it over.

About the keyframe thing, it says to click a diamond shaped button as well as a stopwatch button, where are those buttons?

[Todd_Kopriva]

They're in the Timeline panel. It really helps if you've gone through the basics so that you know these things. Please go through the getting-started resources that I pointed you to; it will make things much easier for you, and it will make it easier for you to ask questions and understand the answers.

[leika]

In case some one gets confused too. I found the stop watch icon (looks like old alarm clock) in my added effect option (hue saturation in my case) there i clicked it. So as i understand it works trough effects u want to create and not by adding key frame then picking effect.