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curves
hi there
im having a bit of trouble getting to grips with the motion curves in ae7. all i want to do manually adjust the spline tangents for the keyframes of a motion graph (the x and y, not the speed graph) in the same way that you can when editing any graph controling some other parameter. when i use the convert vertex tool on this graph it does nothing. im used to the graphs in combustion and maya, if this makes any diference.
many thanks,
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Yeah, I’ve asked the same question before and found out that the graph editor in After Effects is only a time and speed editor. I was a little annoyed when I found this out and felt a little cheated into thinking that the new 7.0 “Graph Editor” feature was more like I guess wha I was used to in 3D apps, but it wasn’t.
Anyways, the short of it is, you can’t change the position coordinates of a layer using the graph editor. Unless there is some expression way that someone might have made up, but I don’t know if that is possible. Probably not what you wanted to hear, wasn’t what I wanted to either.
–Jonathan
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You may wish to consider using three expression control sliders, and tying the layer’s X position to one, the Y to another, and the Z to another. Then you can animate the sliders, and mess with their graphs in the timeline.
If I get your meaning, that is.
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