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Keyframing with motion sketch

Keyframing with motion sketch - After Effects Tutorial

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Keyframing with motion sketch

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- Another way to animate is to use the motion sketch property. This allows you to essentially draw the animation. And it's pretty straightforward. First make sure that you can see the motion sketch panel. Just choose it from the window menu. You may also need to drag it up to make a little bit more room. And pull down so you see all of its controls. Now select a layer that you want to move. Let's go ahead here with our text. And I'll press U to see my user added key frames. What I'd like to do is create a little bit of organic movement. So from here I'll put B for beginning. And N to mark the end. You'll see that it marks out the start point. You can also adjust the smoothness so this works a bit better and doesn't get jagged in the animation. And set the capture speed so you can adjust the rate of capture. Now when ready click start capture and you'll notice that I can just start to move that around and it created key frames. Let's play that back. You see it did exactly what I told…

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