After Effects 5
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Key Framing Techniques Cmd + A - Select all layers U - Shows all animated properties After effects terminology Easing in and Easing out Acceleration & deceleration Affects how they travel between the key frames, but changes how they ease in or out. Helpful for making movement look more realistic.
Ease out
Ease in
Easy Ease
Making a pendulum swing using Easy Ease
Graph editor
Establishing parent child relationships When you set one layer to be the parent it means that the other layers move around it. Examples to the right show rotation and change of position. Child layers can move on their own but will change position and stay linked with the parent layer. When using opacity on a parent layer it doesn’t affect the child layers. (the only property that doesn’t affect it)
Animating the car - using position, rotation, and using the graphs and easy ease to get a natural motion.
Pre compose merges the layes together, as the example to the left shows. Still possible to use all the sub layers when you double click it. Also when you create the pre composition it means you can get it up whenever its needed. Much easier to use if you decide what moves together before you get onto After Effects