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Reverse Path with Bezier Handles
Hi Guys,
Is there a way to reverse a path that uses “BEZIER HANDLES”.
I made a nice curve between two keyframes and now want to put the 3rd that should give the same motion back to the first position with the same curve. Just pasting keyframe#1 doesn’t do the trick. Time Reversing keyframes neither. The only thing that I’m aware of that would work is the: LoopOut(pingpong) expression. But that would mean the whole layer will start looping and other later adjustments will not work.
I don’t want to do it manually ???? I’m looking for a CLEAN look.
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6 Replies
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Time reversing keyframes should work. Did you copy both keyframes before time reversing them?
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer -
Hi Kalleheikki!
I tried both ways. I think when I would use 4 keyframes and 1 frame hold it would work like you described. The way I want it is with 3 keyframes only. Like in the screenshot, but I always get a sort of “circle” it never goes back the way it came.
Am I doing it the wrong way?
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this setup (with a “hold”) works. But I don’t want 1 frame hold.
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Wouter, looking at first example with 3 keyframes – I wonder – that circular path happens to appear when you paste value of the first keyframe, aka, by trying to reset motion into its original state?
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Exactly. So once I put the first keyframe again, the movement becomes (sort of) circular. Adding 4 keyframes (last two “Time Reverse”) makes it happen, but it gives one frame hold. I don’t want a hold 😉
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You might be better off editing the motion path in the graph editor to be symmetric. You may need to separate dimensions as well.
Kalleheikki Kannisto
Senior Graphic Designer
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