| How to force every frame to have a keyframe?
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 | How to force every frame to have a keyframe?
by Chad Ridgeway on Jun 18, 2012 at 2:22:52 pm |
Dear Creative Cow,
I want every frame of my comp to have a keyframe. I don't want to rely on interpolation. Is there a way to force every frame to have a keyframe? (position, rotation, and scale)
Thank you!
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• | | | |  | Re: How to force every frame to have a keyframe? by John Cuevas on Jun 18, 2012 at 2:50:14 pm |
You could "alt + click" on each property to create an expression and press enter to set the expression to it's default. Then go to Animation -> Keyframe Assistant -> Convert Expression to Keyframes and that would generate an keyframe for every frame of your composition.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
Thinkck.com
"I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."
---THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.
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• | | | |  | Re: How to force every frame to have a keyframe? by Chad Ridgeway on Jun 18, 2012 at 2:57:28 pm |
Freakin' genius. A fairy just grew it's wings haha!
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• | | | |  | Re: How to force every frame to have a keyframe? by Dave LaRonde on Jun 18, 2012 at 3:02:53 pm |
Johnny's trick will certainly work for you, but it has a downside. What if you want to change the animated property? If it's in motion, what if you need to change the motion path?
This isn't just a worst-case scenario. I have five whole American dollars that say EVERY professional AE practitioner has had a Homer Simpson "Doh!" moment at one time or another. It typically happens after a file has rendered out, and you're looking at the final result. If it hasn't happened to you, it will. And undoing a boatload of keyframes is the last thing on your mind.
Instead of making all those keyframes, I would instead get to know how the Bezier handles work on the motion paths, and how the Graph Editor works. Then you can animate with a minimum of keyframes.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
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• | | | |  | Re: How to force every frame to have a keyframe? by Chad Ridgeway on Jun 18, 2012 at 3:05:33 pm |
Thanks Dave. I understand the danger of working with too many keyframes. In this case I need each frame to be keyframed for a very specific purpose.
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