Change default keyframe velocity?

[Brian Charles]

Dave, I think he may be referring to the influence of easy-eased keyframes which defaults to 33%.

I don’t believe there is a way to change the default but I think it could be automated using an expression, perhaps check in the expression forum.

[Bas Mooij]

Wanna know the exact same thing! Wouldl save a lot of time. By chance found an answer to your question anywhere? 🙂

Bas

[Greg Neumayer]

I haven’t found a way to change the default, but I’ve found a couple tools to make it more bearable:
Try aescript.com for a script panel called Keysmith. This puts the ease and some other tools right on screen in a panel, making it easy to click to apply.

Also try Animation Patterns, which will let you apply various preset patterns like ‘Bounce Out’ and ‘Rubber InOut’. It’s a little limited on presets, but quite expandable on your own if you watch the tutorials. I’d love for someone to build a more expansive library to apply to it. It’s similar to Ease N Wiz, which I used quite a bit, but it overcomes EaseNWiz’s biggest limitation and allows you to apply different patterns to various keyframes of the same property. (e.g. keyframe 1 to 2 uses bounce out, but 3 to 4 uses pendulum)

They’re all “name your own price”, so you can throw them some incentive if they work well for you.

Enjoy!
-Greg

Antifreeze Design
https://www.antifreezedesign.com

[Bas Mooij]

It still does not seem that this function is integrated in the newest version of AE. Would save a great deal of time..!!

[Greg C neumayer]

Dave, we’re talking about the numeric keyframe velocity settings that you can pull up by selecting a keyframe and pressing CMD-SHFT-K.

As far as preferences files go, there are lot of great preferences we can tweak (except this one!) and learn about by digging in that file. Just make yourself a backup before getting curious!

[Georgi Karapeev]

Bro I was having a massive headache because for some reason AE was putting a 16% influence on every new keyframe I add.

Solution:

1) Open the Velocity window (Ctrl+Shift+K) of THE LAST keyframe you have added to the layer.

2) Make sure ALL outgoing and incoming velocities are set to the number you want.

The confusing part here is that even though you may initially have the exact curve you want, the outgoing velocity of that last keyframe could be anything and it won’t affect the animation. What it WILL affect is the next keyframe you create after it: it will have incoming and outgoing velocities like the last one you made.

I know that’s not exactly what you were asking, but it will definitely help some people who will end up on this thread.