How 2 Change EasyEase to Easy Out

[Malcolm Desoto]

Um…maybe you were holding down shift and had them all selected? If the key frame is yellow, then you’ve got it selected.

You can right click each individual key frame and got to Key Frame Assist.

[Sherwood Ball]

I did that.

When I select Easy Out (from an Easy Ease), nothing changes.

How do you clear a “key frame assist” so that you
can reassign it?

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[Aharon Rabinowitz]

I assume that you mean that when you add new keyframes they LOOK like easy Ease keyframes (the hour glass shaped keyframe) – right?

If that’s the case, you should know that they are not easy ease keyframes. the look (or symbol) of an easy ease keyframe is not unique to easy ease keyframes. Its actually the symbol for all Bezier Keyframes. All temporal keyframes created after bezier keyframe are created as bezier. It may not actually effect your animation at all, but it may.

To avoid any trouble, what you want to do after you create a new bezier keyframe is Ctrl Click on it (or Command Click on it , if you’re on a mac) until it turns into the diamond shape – the symbol for a linear temporal keyframe. Then all subsequent keyframes will be created as linear.

In general selecting a keyframe (or multiple keyframes) and CTRL or Command (Mac) clicking on them will make them shift between auto bezier and Linear.

This is some pretty basic stuff, so if it;s new to you, you mayt want to pick up an AE book to learn some basics of keyframing.

Of course, I may have misunderstood entirely.

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[Darby Edelen]

One thing to note is that if your first keyframe is set as an ‘ease out’ keyframe you won’t notice any difference if you change it to an ‘easy ease’ keyframe. The only difference between these two (at their default settings) is that the ease out keyframe uses linear temporal interpolation as the playhead approaches it (in) and bezier temporal interpolation as it leaves it (out). An ‘ease in’ keyframe does the inverse, bezier interpolation incoming and linear outgoing. An ‘easy ease’ keyframe defaults to bezier interpolation on incoming and outgoing values.

If there are no keyframes before the easy ease keyframe then there is nothing to interpolate from, so it is effectively a constant. The same is true if there are no keyframes after the easy ease keyframe, it can be thought of as an ease in keyframe because there is nothing to interpolate on the outgoing side.

I hope this made some sense.

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

[Sherwood Ball]

Thank you guys.
Yes, it does make sense.

Frankly, I’ve been thrown into editing, PS and AE running
to meet deadlines for my films. People’s schedules, attitudes,
etc. I’m glad of it. I can try an idea and if it turns out
to be a stinker, no one else is around to smell it.

Mucho appreciado senoritas.

BTW, Aharon, you’re podcasts have helped so much.
Thank you thank you thank you.

Sherwood

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
6G Ram OSX 4.8
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2