• Adobe After Effects

  Generating keyframes between existing keyframes

  Posted by Alan Shields on March 13, 2009 at 1:00 am

  I am working on a particular project that requires keyframe data for the length of the project, anywhere from 8 seconds to 5 minutes. This also applies to more than one attribute, ie: transformation, rotation, scale, etc. So far I have manually been selecting the attributes after my main keyframes are in place and frame by frame clicking the add keyframe for every keyframe between each main keyframe I placed. Does anyone out there know of a way to generate keyframes between 2 existing keyframes without moving any of the attributes? I have used tools like the wiggler and exponential scale, but these both only effect position attributes and alter the position of what I am animating respectively. Any information anybody may have or has encountered this problem would be a huge help. Thanks

  Bartek Skorupa replied 16 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Curious Turtle

  March 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm

  Hi Alan,

  Try this:

  i) Paste this expression into the attribute you want to bake the keyframes on:
  a=1/thisComp.frameDuration;
wiggle(a,0)
  ii) Right-click on the first keyframe and choose “Keyframe Assistant > Convert Expression to keyframes”

  This will create a keyframe on each frame for you.

  Hope that helps,
  Ben

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  Alan Shields

  March 13, 2009 at 5:40 pm

  Ben,
  This works perfectly! thank you much for the help!
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  Bartek Skorupa

  September 19, 2009 at 11:17 am

  I would only change one thing. Instead of writting:

  —————————
  a=1/thisComp.frameDuration;
  wiggle(a,0)
  —————————

  I would write:

  —————————
  value
  —————————

  Bartek Skorupa
  Warszawa, Poland

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