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Refining the animation in the F-curve editor

Refining the animation in the F-curve editor - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 18 3D Text Cinema 4D Lite

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Refining the animation in the F-curve editor

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- [Voiceover] We're previewing our animation in Cinema 4D. I'm noticing that it does seem to have a sort of ease in and ease out to the movements of my vector source field. That's the default in Cinema to go ahead and automatically ease your speed up from a start to full speed and then down to a resting speed at the last key frame. However, I think I prefer a slightly different speed curve to this. I think I prefer things to start quickly then maybe slow down more towards the end. To do that I'm gonna temporarily pause my playback and open up Window Timeline. This allows me to either see the keyframes, some absolute frame numbers or to switch to F-curve mode, which is known as function curves. This is the same as the After Effects Graph Editor. I'll select a plane. You don't initially see the extents of my animation. That's okay, I can use these handy icons to zoom up and down. There's the parameter range. And now I see my easing. If I like I can go ahead and open up the plane…

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