From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 09 Expressions
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Keyframes and client changes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 09 Expressions
Keyframes and client changes
- [Instructor] If you have access to the extra size files that came with this lesson, open up the project AEA_Expressions.aep. If instead, you're following along using our book After Effects Apprentice second edition, go ahead and open up the project file that came with lesson 7: expressions in time games. Before we dive into expressions, first we'd like to give you a taste of what could go wrong if you relied too much on using key frames for all of your animations. Inside the comps folder, double click 01-Pick-Whip*starter to bring that open. Click on the RAM preview button at the far right of the preview panel or just press zero on the numeric keypad. Here we have a very simple animation of a pulley that's rotating and scaling. And to verify that, I'll select the layer and press U to reveal all of its animating properties. Let's say I want the red pulley to do exactly the same thing. Easy enough, I'll click on the word scale to select all the scale key frames. Hold shift and click…
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