Matthew Tompkins shares some After Effects Tips and Tricks when it comes to workflow in the application with this short tutorial on Keyboard ShortCuts for quickly replacing layer items or elements while keeping the existing keyframes. Check out the After Effects Workflow Tips & Tricks Element Replacement Tutorial here.

From the tutorial description: “Introducing two essential workflow keyboard shortcuts enabling the After Effect’s user to quickly replace layer items or elements with another whilst also retaining and inheriting all of its keyframes, effects and transform data.”