From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
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Refining speed changes with the Graph Editor - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 10 Time Games
Refining speed changes with the Graph Editor
It can be confusing to figure out exactly what Time Remapping is doing just by looking at keyframes down in the Timeline panel. I mean you can go to previous and next keyframes and look at the Time Remap value versus the Comps value, but a better tool to actually understand what's going on is to go into the Graph Editor. Once we do that, we've got some nice lines that actually show how time is progressing. This line indicates time in the source clip, versus time in the overall composition. As we go through here, we can see how time progresses, how now the slope of change of time is now more gradual. When the slope goes downwards that indicates that time is going backwards, and going forwards again. This is looking at the default Auto-Select Graph Type, which is the value graph for time-remap: what second of the source is playing at what second of the composition. Perhaps even more interesting is to look at the Speed Graph for time remapping. This actually indicates what's going on…
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