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Setting Up Keyframes in Adobe After Effects

Techniques for animating After Effects files. Learn how to set up keyframes using Adobe After Effects software in this free video editing tutorial from a film production professor.

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Now when we twiddle down from the far left hand side of the item we just dropped in, we'll notice that we have a number of different settings that we can use, Anchor Point, Positions, Scale, Rotation, Opacity and so forth. If you've worked with Premier you'll know that the clocks are used to set Key Frames. And that's what happens in After Effects. So, if for instance we want to move the position of our object we simply click on the clock and that automatically assigns a Key Frame. And let's narrow the view because we're looking at the, right now in the time line we're looking at every thirty seconds and that's a bit long, that's a bit much, um to see. So, let's reduce the view, and we do that by clicking on this and dragging it so that we expand the timeline to see more frames in a closer view. So, now we're down to, we can see every two seconds, but that?s still a bit much. So, let's go to, here we go, now we look at every five frames.

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Setting Up Keyframes in Adobe After Effects

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