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Adding Keyframes in After Effects 6
Adding Keyframes in After Effects 6
Adding Keyframes in After Effects 6
Keyframes are nothing but markers placing in the timeline for layers and change the values to create animations
like position, scale, rotation, and color etc., keyframe animation works like we create a point in starting and
ending points and change the values by that the animation play. If we need to move an object from one place to
another, we create two keyframes; in starting, we set the point from where the object needs to start and set the
point where to end the position, in between the keyframes object animations, if we need to speed up the
Step 6: Apply a perfect color to the text; color always give attraction to the animation.
Step 7: We need to animate the text like position, scale, and opacity, to animate this text, we need to use
keyframe animation; if we go to the text layer, we can find two sub-menu Text and transform.
the position where to start, change the value of starting point, I take the text to out of the monitor because I like
added in the timeline, change the values of the endpoint we can find a path between starting and ending points
within this path text animates, in the image you can find two keyframes.
Step 11: Now, l start an animating scale, keep the starting point in the scale, click the animation button in scale
and add a keyframe and change the value of the starting point.
Step 12: Keep another point of the scale and increase the value here; we can see the path of animation.
Step 13: Let us try with position again; here, I move the text to up; if we move the text to a keyframe
starting point.
Step 15: Now give another point and change the value of opacity to 0; you can find the text disappear.
In this process, we learn keyframe animation, how to insert keyframe and how to adjust the keyframes, Here I
import footage and created text, and I did position animation by adding the keyframes, then we started scaling
by creating two keyframes and changing the values later we change opacity values, here we cover position,
Step 2: Create a new mask to the text, go to the text layer and right-click and select mask; then will get sub-
1. Text
2. Masks
3. Transform
We can find the Animate option on the right, which is a very important and useful option.
Step 4: If we click on animation, we can find some sub-menu animation options; usually, we can do animation
between two keyframes, but when we use mask path, it’s the correct method of animating.
Step 5: In this list of animations, we already tried position, scale and opacity, so let’s try with the Tracking
method; tracking is also known as kerning; in this process, the text will separate the letters and get the gap
1. Tracking type in this option, there are 3 types Before & After, Before, After.
2. Tracking amount here, we can change the amount of starting and ending places.
Step 7: Now we will start animating the text, so we give our first starting point, here we increase the amount of
tracking up to hide the remaining text except the first letter; I gave 790 as tracking the amount.
Step 8: We give another point as an end keyframe to complete the animation and give the values 0 to replace
the text.
Here we can find two keyframes starting and ending as we complete the animation, but we can adjust
the keyframes to make animation much better, or we can insert another keyframe in between the
Step 9: If you think to do animation better, just add a key point in between and change the values by that we
Step 10: When we feel about moving animation speed up or slow after giving the keyframes, just move the
Conclusion
In this process, we create a text and gave the new mask to the text layer; by that, the text got a separate path,
and we selected the animation option in that we go with tracking animation. Then we created two keyframes
and changed the values of starting and ending by that text animated, and we insert a new keyframe in the middle
to speed the text animation fast in the starting and slow at the end, and we move the keyframes closer to the