Moving and Scaling in Adobe After Effects

Video Transcript

"So we have a Key Frame here, and let's scrub through to say, twenty frames. Let's move our item, off screen. And you'll see that another Key Frame is automatically been set. So, it's just, animating in After Effects is just a matter of setting Key Frames where you want them and the program interpolates all the Key Frames in between, the "tweens". Now we can adjust the position as well as the scale. To adjust the scale there are a few ways you can do that. We're going to double click on the Key Frame. And just do it by numbers, two hundred on the X-axis and two hundred on the Y-axis. And the scale is adjusted. Oops, that changed the position. Let's not do that. Sorry, let's set a Key Frame right here for the scale. And the way to actually manually insert a Key Frame is to click on the little icon area next to the word Scale. Let's double click on that. And we can reduce it by percentage of the source. Or we can reduce it by pixels, inches, millimeters or percentage of composition. You have several options. So, let's halve this, fifty percent of what we have now, keeping the current aspect ratio. And now we've scaled it down. So, we're going to interpolate from here to here and then off screen."