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Move object in an angular…angle?
Best way to explain this is with an example:
I have a layer which is a small star. I want it to move across the screen along an angular line drawn on the background.
The angles are *sharp* – for the sake of explanation, let’s say they look like this: \/\/\/
So: I place my star at the beginning of the line, click the stopwatch. Move a second ahead on the timeline, reposition the star to the first angle, add a keyframe. Move ahead a second on the timeline, but from this point forward, the “path” or “trail” that the object is creating behind it, that it will travel on is curved – not sharp. How do I turn this off?
I know that if I was making a path I can turn of roto-bezier, but I’m not making a path for 2 reasons:
1. I can only make text move along a path – I can’t figure out how to make a layer move along a path.
2. I have a mask that will uncover the background just ahead of the star so it looks like the star is actually leaving the background line behind as a “trail.”
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Worked great – thank you!
(it’s nice to learn something new and add it to my own “knowledge database”) -
You can also change the default behavior of keyframes in the Preferences > General section by selecting “Default Spatial Interpolation to Linear.”
Also, you can copy a mask shape keyframe and paste it into the position property. Which can be handy in certain circumstances 🙂
Darby Edelen
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