How trim/split a layer in After Effects?

I started to animate using Adobe after effects CC 2015 and I have a few questions about the layers.

I am aware that I can cut down them to the help option and support keys, however, what I wanted to do was to divide the layer so that there a gap between the two.

For example, layer 1 is visible between 0:00 and 01:00, but what I wanted was to appear again at 02:00, leaving a blank in the middle section from 01:00 to 02:00.

The only way I found to do this was to duplicate the layer then adjusting, but it requires a huge amount of layers.

Is it possible to do so in the same layer?

mcnoronha wrote:

Is it possible to do so in the same layer?

# You can do it in first however. The stuff you are talking about sounds a lot like video editing. AE is not a video editing software. This kind of thing is much faster and easier in the first.

As Rick says, you can press CTRL / CMD + SHIFT + D to divide a layer. You can then adjust the layer or whether a second more to come, but it will be on a new layer. Alternatively, you can use hold keyframes on the opacity of the for keep on the same layer.

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