From the course: Motion Design in After Effects
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Creating and modifying keyframes
From the course: Motion Design in After Effects
Creating and modifying keyframes
- [Instructor] Now we can starting animating this poster. But before doing so, let's verify that we have the correct settings for the composition. So I'll go to the composition menu and choose composition settings. I'll change the frame rate to 25 using this pop-up menu. And then I'm going to select and highlight the duration field and type in five period, which will take the five and move it from the frames to the seconds. So any time that you're adding a period, you are moving it to the next field. In this case, five minutes because we have two dots or two period. And just an FYI, if I'm going to add another one, this is going to basically cap it three hours. So this is the longest duration that After Effects will allow you to create timelines. Not that you want to do it but just in case. All right, so I'll remove the last two dots here, making sure that I'm creating a five seconds comp, and then I'll click on the 3D…
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