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keyframing fury.
Trying to do something pretty simple here. I’m just keyframing the position of my camera in 3D space to truck in towards an object, sit there, and then move away.
So I have keyframe one at the beginning of the clip. Keyframe two is the end of the trucking motion. I copied key frame two and placed it one second ahead in the timeline (to ensure that the camera stays put). Key frame four moves the camera away.
My only problem is between key frame two and three. Instead of the camera staying where it should it zooms in and out. However, the numbers of the two keyframes are exactly the same.
Any idea what is going on? This is unbelievably frustrating.
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WOOHOO GOTTA LOVE THE AE KEYFRAMES!
(set the first of the 2 equal keyframes to hold…)its a common problem, its the interpolation. Look over these 2 tutes:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_1.php
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_2.php -
*sigh of relief
Okay, I may have posted this prematurely. After stepping outside for a bit and counting to ten, I right clicked on my key frames and went into the keyframe interpolation properties. Instead of Bezier, I selected linear.
The “hold” option does seem to be a better solution though. Thanks for the suggestions, tutorials, and bearing with me through my moment of insanity.
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Under your Preferences you can change it so AE will always default to Linear keyframes, as opposed to Bezier. That way you won’t have to change it all the time.
Michael.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t actually won’t linear movement applied to the key frames becasue it will look…linear.
That’s good to know though. I ended up using “toggle hold”.
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[malcolm man] “Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t actually won’t linear movement applied to the key frames becasue it will look…linear.”
If you have the default set to linear it’s very easy to add bezier curves. You can either do the inverse of what you did to solve your problem, right click and go to Keyframe Interpolation and set the spatial to Auto Bezier (or one of the other options). Or you can just use the pen tool to drag bezier handles out of any keyframe.
I prefer starting with linear and adding the curves myself, it gives me a greater degree of control.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA
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