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Graph Editor and keyframe interpolation

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Graph Editor and keyframe interpolation

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- We've got our Master Properties ready to animate. What I'm going to do now is go back into here and select my controller. If I double hit the E key on the keyboard, it'll bring up the position animation that I've got in there already. You'll see I've just got a very slight bounce up and down. We'll have a look at the expression that created this a little bit later. But what I want to do is have a look at the graph and I've switched on the Post-Expression Graph button here. And when I switch on the Graph Editor, you can see a representation of that up and down movement here, where the green line is. What I'm going to do, is do a little cheat. I'm going to create a new Null object, I'm going to call it "Markers", and I'm going to use this to create markers that will relate to these peaks and troughs. And I can then take them into my other composition, and line up the animation with these peaks and troughs. So hit Control + Asterisks to add a marker or you can go to layer>markers>add…

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