Video and audio effects won't show up in "Effect controls"

[Solulus]

Hello.

I'm currently creating something in Adobe After Effects CC 2014, and when I was going to keyframe a layer, I didn't find any controls to affect position, opacity and size. I didn't have this issue before, as I have always managed to find the controls under "Effect controls". Where are the video and audio effects?

[Dave_LaRonde · Accepted solution]

To immediately reply to your question -- position, opacity and scale are NOT effects.  You will NOT find them in the effect controls.  They're found in the layer properties when the layer is in the timeline.

And if you don't know that, you missed the first ten minutes of the first class of AE 101.  You're clueless.

Which means you're trying to go it alone.  Which dooms you to failure.

Do yourself a favor -- Go here:

After Effects tutorials | Learn how to use After Effects CC

Forget the youtube tutorials by high school kids.  Learn from the pros.  Blow it off at your peril.

[Jose Panadero]

As Dave says, those parameters will never appear in the Effects Control Panel. Remember that you are using After Effects, not Premiere. Anyway, you can find a Transform effect in the Distort category, where you can access to the parameters you are asking for once applied to your layer.