With standard keyframes, every keyframe affects every parameter. This section describes how to use advanced keyframes, where a separate timeline track — a keyframe track — appears in the Effect Editor for each keyframeable parameter in an effect.

The keyframe track opens to display a keyframe graph. When you work with effects that have advanced keyframes, you customize a parameter's actions using keyframes in the keyframe track, and each parameter's keyframes are independent of any other parameter's keyframes.

Advanced keyframes are available for the Picture-in-Picture (PIP), 3D PIP, and Resize effects.

You do not have to use advanced keyframes in the Effect Editor. You can work using standard keyframes, in which each keyframe affects all parameters. In addition, advanced keyframe functions are available even when a keyframe graph is closed to show only the keyframe track.

Using advanced keyframes, you can change the order of nested effects by manipulating the Nesting Priority icons that appear in the Effect Editor. See Changing the Order of Nested Effects.

The following sections describe setting and customizing advanced keyframes: