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Set keyframe to have incoming hold?
Hello!
I think this is trickier than is sounds. I need to set a bunch of keyframes to have an incoming hold. If you right click on keyframes and click “toggle hold” it only holds the out going animation from that keyframe. If you then create subsequent keyframes, afx creates frames that are held on in and out (a fully square looking frame icon). Is there a way to drag select a load of keyframes and manually set their incoming interpolation to hold?
Thanks ☺
FYI, the reason I need to to this is I’m doing a big character animation sequence and I need to animate earlier in the timeline than some other animation. So I want the earlier animation not to move to the next keyframes while I’m working on it (if that makes any sense)
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Hi Dave, thanks for the reply although I think you may have missed a key (pun intended) part of my problem. When you hit toggle hold it only holds the outgoing animation, is there a way to convert a keyframe to a hold in both directions?
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I think Harry is right that there are situations where keyframes with incoming hold make a lot of sense.
Note: incoming hold means that the value of the keyframe is hold BEFORE the actual keyframe, not after it.If I see it correctly, using incoming hold is actually the only way to create truly abrupt changes.
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Yes! I kind of gave up on this as it’s quite hard to explain and I knew there was no answer really, but that is exactly it.
There is no way to manually create an INCOMING hold keyframe. After effects will make one if you’re making a keyframe after a hold frame, but there’s no way to MAKE one. For character animation it would be really handy sometimes. There may be a feature I’m not aware of but seems like something adobe would have to add.
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I somehow have the “incoming hold” on some keyframes, but I can’t replicate it or even guess what my steps were. Very puzzling. Toggling the keyframes, deleting and replacing, putting different types of keyframes in front before creating…nothing I do makes a “incoming hold,” on purpose or by accident.
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In contrast to the user interface of Ae, scripts can actually set the keyframe interpolation for in and out independently.
I haven’t tried it, but this script seems to offer a nice implementation:
https://gumroad.com/l/behold -
Ahh nice yes this looks like the solution, I’ll give it a go, thanks Mathias! It’s a hard one to explain, searching for a solution is quite tricky.
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