From the course: After Effects Expressions for Premiere Pro Editors

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Animating without keyframes

Animating without keyframes

- One of the main reasons for using After Effects expressions for your animation is to simplify the animation process and make it more flexible to make changes as you're going through the edit, particularly if you're sitting with a client. So up until now, we've used keyframes to create the basic animation, and then used the pic quip to link properties together, and used some simple arithmetic on the expressions to adapt them. Now the problem with that is it's still based on keyframes. So to simplify the animation process even further, I want to show you a way of creating motion and animation without using keyframes at all, and that's using the time expression. I've got this clip here in Premiere Pro. It's already in the edit. You can see here if we just preview that. (mumbles) know what footage you'd like them to provide. And your download credits never expire. There are no other fees and no minimum commitment. So this is already dynamically linked. So all I need to do to open it up…

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