After Effects Workshop

In todays session were going to learn about:

-How to add sound 

- Grouping layers 

- Key framing techniques 

If you select all the layers on the page and then you press "U" you are then able to see all the key points that have been activated to be used and how they are going to effect the project you are working on

The motion lines which come from the objects when they move are what you think is going to happen... the dots which are along this time show the pace of which its going to move, the closer the dots the slower it will be as each dot resembles a frame




How to ease in and ease out...

this makes the key frames along the line of travel to change so there are more at the start and less towards the end and vice versa ... this makes things work alot better and more smoothly then trying to do this yourself 

this shows both of them which started at the same time and finishing at the same time yet still showing the ease in and ease out features. 

the grey section shows how the "easy ease" works ... this applies both ease in and ease out to the way path of the feature. 

There is a graph select button which allows you to look into the section of which you like and how it works. This function allows you to make things work more easily and will let you look into sections of whats going on and how you want things to be created. 

These are the way to make the pendulum work so that it swings with the fastest point in the centre and the slowest on the outside, this makes it work realistically.


Establishing parent child relationships... 

this is the way that you can make one object do the same as the rest of them by using this to make them all work in unison. The section to the right is called the parent section ... you then can select them to all do the same thing as one slide which you choose, this works out rather well.


Nesting...

by doing this you are able to make sure that you can get these to sit so that you wont accidentally adjust the parts of this ... this is like working with one layer which makes things much easier

however if you need to adjust it, just double click on the composition and you can adjust this.