From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
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Keyframing time - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
Keyframing time
Now that we've placed some hit points to give us clues of important points in this slow-motion action, let's use Time Remapping to change how fast or slow the glass is moving in any point in time. Now for those who have a copy of our book After Effects Apprentice, I'm not going to be exactly following the order that we did things in the book because this is not some magic recipe you only do once to get a specific result. I want you to have fun and just learn the overall concept. One thing I'm going to do I'm going to go up here with the Info panel and re-dock it closer to my Comp panel, just so you can keep an eye on it while we work with Time Remap keyframes. The Info panel is very helpful in showing you when you've grabbed a keyframe and how much you're moving it by. Okay, the first thing I'm going to do is select my layer, right-click, choose Time, then Enable Time Remapping. It'll start off by putting a keyframe at the very start of the clip and one frame past the end of the clip.…
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