From the course: After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Essential Training
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Working with keyframes - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects CC 2018: Editors and Post Essential Training
Working with keyframes
- [Instructor] Setting keyframes to create an animation inside of After Effects is just as straightforward as it is in Premiere. However, you have a greater degree of freedom and ability to manipulate those keyframes in After Effects. Adjusting the keyframes of more than one property across more than one layer at a time is a big difference between After Effects and Premiere. Here, we'll build a little title reveal and look how we can easily scale, reverse, and retime those keyframes in the timeline. So, this composition has four layers and a background layer, and, when I preview, you'll see that three of those layers come in from the bottom and move off to the top. They also go from black and white into color. And this last layer over here on the right hand side doesn't move at all, so that's what we're going to animate. We're also going to retime some of the color effects, so that they time out better. And we'll also introduce our logo at the end, so that we can have a little reveal.…
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