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When the stopwatch is active for a specific
property, After Effects automatically adds or changes a keyframe
for the property at the current time whenever you change the property
value.
To activate the stopwatch and enable keyframing, do
one of the following
- Click the Stopwatch icon
 next
to the property name to activate it. After Effects creates a keyframe
at the current time for that property value.
- Choose Animation > Add [x] Keyframe,
where [x] is the name of the property you are
animating.
Add a keyframe without changing a value Do one of the following:Click the keyframe navigator button  for
the layer property.
Choose Animation > Add [x] Keyframe,
where [x] is the name of the property you are
animating.
Click a segment of the layer property’s graph in
the Graph Editor with the Pen tool  .
Auto-keyframe modeThe Auto-keyframe button is
a switch located at the top of the Timeline panel, to the right
of the composition switches. Click the Auto-keyframe button to turn Auto-keyframe
mode on or off.
When Auto-keyframe mode is on, modifying a
property automatically activates its stopwatch and adds a keyframe
at the current time.
Note: Auto-keyframe mode doesn’t automatically
activate the stopwatch for properties that aren’t interpolated,
such as menus, checkboxes, and the Source Text property.
Auto-keyframe
mode is off by default. When Auto-keyframe mode is off, modifying
properties and animating with keyframes behave as in previous versions
of After Effects.
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