A Guide to Basic Keyframing in Adobe After Effects
Working with keyframes in Adobe After Effects is one of the easiest and most fundamental ways to add more dynamic actions to your projects and make them pop. You can create them with just a click, and adjust them almost as easily. Since they’re so valuable, you can make yourself more valuable as an artist by learning how to utilize them for your projects. Here’s how.
Keyframe Overview
Since videos and animations are made up of frames, a keyframe is a mark (a diamond symbol in most cases) that’s created at a specific time for a specific layer property’s value. This can be for position (shortcut = P), scale (S), rotation (R), opacity (T), anchor point (A), or other properties in effects and plugins. Typically, at least two keyframes are used to create a change with a property’s value over time. One is placed at the beginning of your change, and one at the end with the new value.