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Create and modify keyframes

Create and modify keyframes - After Effects Tutorial

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Create and modify keyframes

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- [Instructor] Now let's go ahead and create some keyframes. For that, go to the Compositions folder and open Composition 2.2 Create and Modify Keyframes, simply double-click it. In this particular composition, you're going to see a single circle, red circle, in the middle, and you're going to see there is a layer named shape layer. If you expand the layer, you're going to see that there are different things in here. So you're going to see two main ones, Contents and Transform. If it opens with Contents expanded, go ahead and collapse it, and expand Transform. We are going to keyframe things like position and scale. Now, the first thing that we need to do is we need to set the point in time where we would like for the interpolation to happen, so a point in time for the animation to start. And let's just say that I would like for it to start exactly one second. So I position the playhead at the one second mark. So I could…

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