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Stop opacity keyframes reducing
Hello I’m trying to do fade in 15 layers of text one after the other.
Each layers has only one word of text per layer.
I’ve been trying to do it by “staggering” 0% to 100% keyframes on each layer.
i.e As the first layer reaches it’s one 100% opacity keyframe i’ve set a keyframe on the layer below to start at 0% opacity.
I’ve then repeated this process working my way down the layers of text.Please see the attached screenshot
I’m sure I’ve done this many times before successfully, but this time after each layer reaches it’s 100% opacity keyframe it automatically starts to gradually reduce back to 0% opacity for the duration of the sequence (which is only 20 seconds).
This causes the text to start to fade out after it’s reached 100% opacity.
I don’t wan’t it to do this, I would like it to remain at 100%I don’t understand why it’s doing this as I’ve not set another keyframe after the 100% opacity keyframe on any of these layers, but it’s happening on all the layers?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jerry -
3 Replies
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I’ll bet you have an errant keyframe for 0% opacity beyond the end of the comp — perhaps an accidental copy and paste. Make the comp longer (in comp settings) to see if there is an extra keyframe out there.
Walter Soyka
Designer & Mad Scientist at Keen Live [link]
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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as Walter suggested, you have keyframes down the road for each layer that are set to reduce opacity. we don’t need to guess because the information is right there. look here, this is from your screenshots of the keyframes:
see how the second keyframe is full? not like the first keyframe which is half full. this is an indication that this is not the last keyframe.one more indication is this:
as you are placing your CTI after the last visible keyframe you can see that you can go to the next keyframe by clicking on the right arrow. if there wasn’t any keyframe after your current placement of the CTI you would see this:
what to do now? as we see here you are all the way down your timeline duration
so you can either set the duration of your composition to be longer, then delete these offending keyframe or keyframes down the road, or you can click on the arrow here for each layer:
then click on the diamond to clear that keyframe that you don’t really see 🙂
* this message was brought to you with support of the new feature (to my knowledge) of copy/paste images from the clipboard right in the text field! Thank you Cow Council!
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Excellent! Got it to work thanks to all of your help!
Kind regards
Jerry
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