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ChronoKeys

Sync keyframes to layers to dynamically adjust the duration of layers and precomps while preserving your keyframe precision. Effortlessly nudge neighboring layers and keyframes to fine-tune timing across your entire animation.

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Description

Introducing ChronoKeys

Time, Under Your Control. ChronoKeys redefines how you manage animation timing in Adobe After Effects. Instead of tediously sliding keyframes or rebuilding timing from scratch, ChronoKeys allows you to sync keyframes directly to layer durations, providing a dynamic and flexible way to retime your animations while preserving every subtle curve of motion. Whether you’re extending a scene, shortening a moment, or retiming nested precomps, your keyframes move intelligently with their layers.


Sync Keyframes to Layers

Lock In - Sync Keyframes to layer in-point

Lock Out - Sync Keyframes to layer out-point

Stretch - Maintain relative timing, but the time between keyframes can change.

Protect - The block of keyframes remains relative to the layer duration, but the time between the keyframes is maintained.  

Sync to Layer

Ripple Nudge & CTI Nudge

Nudge neighboring layers and keyframes to accommodate new timing, lock or stretch regions with precision, and maintain your creative flow without breaking animation continuity. With ChronoKeys, every time change becomes a confident adjustment - not a rebuild.

Ripple Nudge

Ripple Nudge - Automatically adjust the timing of adjacent layers to accommodate the new duration. Ripple nudge can be used without synced keyframes to adjust layer duration only.

CTI Nudge

CTI Nudge - Layers that intersect the CTI are extended, and layers to the right or left of the CTI are nudged. Keyframes can use their sync color or move regardless of color. Apply to selected layers or the entire comp.


Re-time and Nudge Pre-comps

The user controls how deep ChronoKeys nudges layers inside of pre-comps. If a pre-comp duration isn't long enough to extend the layers, ChronoKeys can automatically extend the pre-comp duration, allowing changes to be made without needing to dive into each pre-comp to accommodate the new duration. 


Maintain Easing Curves

Change timing without breaking your animation. Perfect for animators, motion designers, and editors who live by precision and rhythm, ChronoKeys brings true temporal control to your timeline. Retiming becomes a design choice, not a chore.


Transform Keyframes - Align and Re-time

Align and Re-Time

Align and Re-Time keyframes per layer, per property, or globally. 

Quickly align keyframes by snapping selected keyframes to the inpoint, CTI, and outpoint of a layer while preserving timing.

Re-Time selected keyframes by percentage or frame count. Need to extend an animation by exactly ten frames? Easily adjust the duration of the selected keyframes while maintaining the relative spacing, using the first, center, or last selected keyframe, or the CTI as your anchor point. 


Advanced Stagger

Stagger keyframes with precision across layers, individual properties, or globally across an entire selection, either ascending or descending.

layer

Layer-Based Stagger

property

Property-Based Stagger

Global-Based Stagger


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Version History

1.0.1 -

Jan 29, 2026

- In frames mode, when retiming keyframes, Alt now inverts the frames value. So a value of 10 will be -10 when applied.

1.0 -

Jan 17, 2026

- Initial Release

Compatibility

After Effects

2026, 2025, 2024