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  • Making Zoom “Hold”

    Posted by Antoni Jones on October 4, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Hi Guys,

    So here is the deal. I am making a tutorial that is 480×360 in size. I have imported this tutorial in after effects and want to zoom into specific spots into the tutorial to make things clearer to the person viewing. I have animated the Anchor Point and Scale properties of the layer to do this and it looks good but I can’t make the zoom “hold” on that position for a few seconds, it starts to zoom out slowely to the next set of keyframes. I have tried making all the keyframes hold keyframes which works but then I dont get the zoom motion, it simply cuts from one zoom to another. So, my question is how can I make it hold the zoom for a few seconds before zooming back out to full screen??.

    -Regards

    Antoni.

    Tom Scott replied 17 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Antoni Jones

    October 4, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    I already have and didn’t find anything that could answer my question. Like I already stated I have convertred the keyframes to “hold” but I then dont get the zoom motion, rather it “cuts” to the next keyframe. For instance if I just set the anchor point and scale keyframes to “hold” then scrub along in time set two new keyframes where I zoom completley out it does hold to that point in time but then jumps to the full screen rather than zooming back out. I hope I’m making myself clear.

    -Regards

    Antoni.

  • Stuart Smith

    October 4, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    Paste this link together if it’s broken

    https://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7d94.html

    You want an A keyframe at the start of the move a B keyframe at the end of the move an A keyframe at the start of the next move (must be in the same position as the previous B keyframe) a B keyframe at the end of the move etc

  • Tom Scott

    October 5, 2008 at 1:01 am

    Don’t convert all the keyframes to hold keyframes, just the one you want to hold on.

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