Hidden Gems: Chapter 6 - Layer Essentials

Chris & Trish Meyer's series of tips, tricks, gotchas, factoids, and shortcuts continues with Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Hidden Gems: Chapter 6 - Layer Essentials, which covers some basics and the not-so-basic on:

• Option Paste for Current Time
• Convert Footage to Layers
• Replace Source
• Guide Layers
• Scroll Layer to Top

[update... Todd Kopriva added links for: details of placing layers in time, guide layers, selecting layers, and changing layer stacking order.]

For similar recent efforts, see After Effects Leftovers: 40 tips better the next day, A few quick tips for After Effects, and Keyboard shortcuts you (maybe) don't use.