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Animating with the timeline

Animating with the timeline - After Effects Tutorial

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Animating with the timeline

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- Keyframes allow you to animate elements in After Effects with the help of the software. All a single keyframe does is hold a property value at a given time, but as soon as you add another keyframe with separate values at a separate time, the values in between can be calculated for you automatically. Not only that, you can gain precise control over transitions and eases and recreate how motion occurs in nature. Great animation apps have great keyframe controls, and After Effect is definitely among the top in this regard. So here I have a logo and the logo is holding out a couple of video layers. So there are two separate layers here, Explore and California, holding out Golden Gate Bridge and my LA panorama. And I'm going to animate those matte layers in. So let's start with Explore. Let's just have it fade in. And I'll set opacity here for 100 and zero at the beginning. And then for California I'm going to move this…

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