keyframing

Keyframe Paramaters

Activating Keyframe

Effects Timeline

Keyframe

Keyframes are markers in time that allow you to tell After Effects where you want to change the value choose from the Effects menu. This will bring up the ‘Effect Controls’ in the upper left (click the double

for a layer or effect property such as position, opacity, scale, rotation, amount, particle count, colour, etc. By setting these ‘markers’ and changing the values you create animation.

● When you Unfold a layer: Anything that has arrow to get back to the project panel)

a Stop-Watch in After Effects means that it can be • You can also access these effects by

animated. navigating through the layers panel to the effects

● Every object/ layer imported into and double-clicking

AfterEffects has properties which can be animated. • Again, you can keyframe these effects in or

These are scale, opacity, rotation and position. These out

can be manipulated visually or numerically, by editing the values Changing Footage Duration • You can manually drag footage around in

Keyframe the timeline, or move the cursor to a specific time

> Select Layer(s) and snap to it.

>click arrow next to layer name to reveal Transform • You can trim or separate footage by going

>click arrow next to Transform to reveal Transform to Edit/Split Layer (ctrl shift d)

Options: Anchor Point, Position, Scale, Rotation, • You can slow down or speed up footage by

Opacity choosing Layer/Time/Time Stretch. (Or right click on

>move Timeline Indicator to first position for the footage in the timeline you want to effect, go to

Keyframe Time/Time Stretch.) Here you can change the stretch

>click Opacity stopwatch to make keyframe factor (percent change) or type in a specific new

>Go to Toggle ‘Expand or Collapse Transfer Panes’ duration for a clip.

(this is the 2nd toggle in the bottom left corner of • When using Time Stretch, make sure to

the Timeline) consider Frame Blending

>move Time line Indicator to next position o none (you’ll be able to see the frames

>change opacity, a new Keyframe is made jump), Frame Mix (blends frame to frame), or Pixel

>repeat Motion (analyzes pixels frame to frame). You can

Interpolation toggle between these options in the switches in your

Interpolation is the process of filling in the unknown layers panel.

data between two known values. You set keyframes • You can also make a freeze frame by going

to specify a property’s values at certain key times. to Layer/Time/Freeze frame … just make sure to

After Effects interpolates values for the property for split out the footage you’d like to freeze first, so you

all times between keyframes. Effects where we want don’t freeze your entire clip. Image Effects • AE has many Effects you can play with, many similar to Ps filters • Select the footage you want to affect, then

an animation to begin and where we want it to end.