Animation presets
Presets are ready-made animations, in six groups: Entrances, Exits, Emphasis, Strokes, Color and Filters. A preset starts at the playhead and writes keyframes on the selected layers, only for the properties it animates.
The three balloons pop in one after another, then stay until the animation starts over. This one is the real exported SVG, playing.
Step by step
Select the balloons
With the Select tool, drag a box around the three balloons on the canvas, starting on the empty sky. Every layer the box touches is selected.
Open the presets
Click Animate in the timeline's header, then Presets… at the top of its menu. The Presets window opens, on Entrances.
Pick Pop in
Click Pop in. Every tile plays its preset and names the tracks it writes (Scale · Opacity). The line beside Apply says when it runs and what it replaces; with several layers selected, Stagger starts each one 0.1s after the last.
Apply it
Click Apply (or double-click a tile). Each balloon gets Scale and Opacity keyframes: the first starts at the playhead, each next one 0.1s later. It is one undo step.
Play it
Press Space. The balloons pop in, one after another, and stay until the 3-second animation starts over.
Keys
| Space | Play and pause |
| Home | Go to the start |