The ruler

The ruler is a very powerful tool. It shows how the keyframes of the property are distributed on the clip. Besides that, it lets you move these keyframes to any position of the clip, or even outside of it, which creates animations that were almost impossible with Premiere before.

1 is the row of the three buttons. 2 is the block of keyframes on the clip, with its two blue edges.

Another feature of the ruler is that you can easily increase the duration of your animation (without touching the duration of the clip) by dragging one of the edges of the keyframes on the ruler. This makes Sniper redistribute the keyframes proportionally to the new duration, a feature that until now only existed in After Effects.

Moving and stretching the animation on the ruler, with the graphs following it

The three buttons

To make editing easier, the ruler has 3 buttons that help with the distribution of the keyframes:

• Put all the keyframes at the start of the clip.
• Put them all at the end of the clip.
• Or distribute the keyframes over the exact duration of the clip.