From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation
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Coordinating keyframes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation
Coordinating keyframes
Next I am going to use the Graph Editor to coordinate animation across multiple layers, and also to coordinate keyframes with a video. Now in this case I have my Snowflake.mov all nicely easing, and I've got nice animation on it. But I've been neglecting Snowstorm title, which ends at a different point in time. I can Shift+Click to try to see both of them, but sometimes you get into trouble by deselecting a layer accidentally. So the far better way to go is to go ahead and enable Show Graph Editor Set, which means always show a particular parameter whether or not that layer is selected. Now turn on the graph editors set for all of the properties I am interested in. Now it doesn't matter whether or not they are selected, I am going to see them. It becomes very easy for me to see that this second position keyframe for Snowstorm Title is landing a bit earlier than all the other ones. If I want to coordinate them, I'll just pick it up and start dragging. I'll add the Shift key to…
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