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  • smoother transition

    Posted by Ruby Gold on May 16, 2005 at 8:31 pm

    I’m using AE 5.5 and am wondering if someone can help me with what I know is a pretty basic thing. I’m creating an effect on a still photo that looks like zooming in and then panning a section of it. I’d like for the zoom and pan to look like one smooth motion without a brief “stop” in between the zoom and the pan. Currently, the motion zooms in, stops briefly, then the pan begins. How would I set things up to allow for the “one continuous motion” look?

    Thanks so much-

    Jan Raimann replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jan Raimann

    May 17, 2005 at 12:12 pm

    hi ruby,

    you have to ease your transition keyframes.
    -select the keyframes you want to ease and then hit the “F9” button.
    (or you press and hold right mouse button, choose keyframe assistent, choose easy ease)

    -in the “keyframe interpolation” menue you can choose between other interpolation types as:bezier,linear, hold…..
    -or you hit the little arrow in front of the parameter you want to adjust, there you can make more subtile adjustments by changing the litle ancor bezier handles.

    if you dont get the “one continuous motion look” decrease the time between you transitions, that you get a overlay of the transitions. check the link, this is a good tutorial about panning and zooming images. https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=2&page=/articles/dallos_matt/pan_zoom/index.html hope that will fix your problem!

    greetz jan

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