Guido Rosso guitar jamming visual designer, user interface architect, motion specialist, photographer, and twin of Luigi Rosso.

Tip: Expression Blend Marquee Select Keyframes

Discovered a huge time saver in Blend last week and it just occurred to me that there might be others that have been wishing for this feature, not knowing that it’s already built-in.

If you hold “ctrl” on your keyboard, you can drag and drop to marquee select multiple keyframes directly on the timeline, much like in After Effects. If you hold “shift” as well, you can marquee more than once to select different clusters of keyframes.

Hopefully this will become the default functionality in Blend, no additional keyboard shortcuts required (just click and drag, no need to press “ctrl” first). It seems to be a standard in most video editing and post production timelines.