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Using roving keyframes

Using roving keyframes - After Effects Tutorial

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Using roving keyframes

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In the previous movies in this chapter I've made a complex motion path that I am very happy with. This is my spatial path. Now I am going to work on my temporal keyframes to smooth out their timing and their contribution to the animation. If you have the project files that came with this lesson but you have not worked through the previous few movies, you can open up 05- Butterfly Flight*starter with path. I will do that now. I will select position, so that you can see my motion path. Notice the spacing of the dots in between the keyframes. Sometimes they are very spaced out, like around here. Sometimes it's bit closer together like through here, and I will RAM Preview by pressing 0 on the numeric keypad. Now you can see I have got a nice looping path of this butterfly, but there are some speed changes. For example, it's fast there, slow there, very fast there, and it kind of clumps in and out of the flower. It doesn't land softly. It doesn't take off softly. Let's improve that. Well…

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