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Adding and adjusting keys

Adding and adjusting keys - After Effects Tutorial

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Adding and adjusting keys

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- [Instructor] By using keyframes, we're able to tell After Effects that a property has a certain value at a certain point in time and it's these keyframes that are responsible for animation. In this movie, we'll see how to add and adjust keyframes in a few different ways to get our animation timing as needed. Let's come over to our second composition. Here I've got the beginnings of an animation with a circle making contact with this triangle. I want to animate this square, but before I do, let's take care of a couple housekeeping things. Notably, we want to make sure that we can see our motion path. So I've selected my circle position. And first thing, if you're not seeing this motion path, make sure you come up over here to this icon and under View Options, make sure that all of this is enabled. Next, you'll notice that my layer label is colored yellow, so that makes the motion path a bit hard to see. I'll…

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