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Creating keyframes with Set Key

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Creating keyframes with Set Key

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- [Instructor] To create keyframes manually, we can use set key mode. And it differs from auto key mode in a couple of key ways. First of all, when we click the big plus sign to create a keyframe in set key mode, we first want to choose which tracks are going to be keyed when we press that button. And that's done through the key filters dialog. Click on key filters down here. And here, we can choose which tracks are going to be keyframed. And I want to add some rotation keys to the drone helper object. I don't want to change the current position animation, so I'll turn position off. I'll also turn off scale and everything else except for rotation. Close the set key filters dialog. The other key difference with set key mode is that you can create keyframes at any point in time. And you don't need to worry about whether or not keyframes exist on the current track, like you do with auto key, and you don't need to concern yourself with frame zero, like you do with auto key. So let me…

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