From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation
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Navigating the Graph Editor - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 03 Advanced Animation
Navigating the Graph Editor
In this chapter, we're going to focus on the most powerful tool in After Effects to help refine your animations, the Graph Editor. First I'm going to clear my display by re-docking the Layer panel into the Comp panel and closing all my previous compositions. And if you have the files that came with this lesson, go ahead and open up Comp 03-Graph Editor*starter. I'm going to press 0 on the numeric keypad to RAM-preview this. It will take a while to cache up. And you might recognize this from the After Effects Apprentice: Basic Animation lesson. At this stage, we've entered all of our keyframes, but you might notice that the movements are a bit jerky. For example, the snowflake just kind of plops into place, the title comes up and just suddenly stops. It could be refined, it could be more elegant, and that's what we're going to try to do in this chapter. I'll move ahead and stop the animation, do Command+A on Mac, Ctrl+A on Windows to select all my layers, and press U to reveal all of…
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