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Fine-tune with the Graph Editor

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Fine-tune with the Graph Editor

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- [Instructor] The graph window offers a more in-depth look at the interpolations between key frames. It's here that adjusting the values can fine tune how your motion behaves. Here we'll continue to look at how to utilize the two different views of the Graph Editor, the Value Graph, and the Speed Graph. In this example I've got a simple diamond that I'd like to move from left to right and so I'll twirl this down look for my transform position property, and you'll notice with this property, both X and Y are tied together. After Effects does allow us to split this out, and if we right click on position, you'll find that we have separate dimensions available to us. And now we have two distinct parameters that we can key frame independently of one another. So at frame zero I'm going to click my stopwatch create a key frame at the exposition here, and come down to frame 30 and let's click and drag, I'm going to hold down shift…

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