Use the Keyframe Assistant to ease into the animation. After Effects applies an algorith to make the effect look smoother.įigure 12. Another way to adjust the keyframe to give it a more natural feel is to right-click on the keyframe and select Keyframe Assistant > Easy Ease In from the menu that appears (or press Shift+F9 as shown in Figure 12, below).
If we move the right keyframe closer to the left keyframe, that will accelerate the fade in animation. In this animation, the left keyframe is when the text begins to fade in from the left, and the right keyframe is when it's complete. The keyframes you see in Figure 11 represent the duration of the animation. Press the + (plus) key as desired to zoom in. The gray diamonds in the effects timeline on the right represent the current position of the animation keyframes. The Range Selector 1 you see in Figure 11 is the Adobe Bridge animation we just applied. Next, press U to reveal any keyframes that you've applied to the selected layer in After Effects.
The diamonds in the effect timeline on the right represent the keyframes. The highlighted Source Name text indicates that the "What you will learn" text later is selected. To do so, make sure your layer is selected (the name of the layer should be highlighted in the Source Monitor, as shown in Figure 11, below).įigure 11. And, those changes are what we're going to talk about in our next video.The next step is to adjust the timing of the animation. So, dynamically linking really is the best way to work between projects, as it will only save time when you have to make those inevitable changes. The other thing that's really cool is you do not need to have Character Animator open while you're working with a dynamically linked file in either After Effects or Premiere Pro. And as before, all I do is drag it in and I can create or add it to any other composition in After Effects. I'm going to select Changes, click OK, and there it is. Export or Changes, these are the two scenes I showed you that are in Character Animator.
It's going to ask me which scene I want to dynamically link. I'm going to select that, and then, I'm going to click Import. This is where the two scenes are that I have in Character Animator. Another way I can do it is I can right-click in my Project Folder, and go to Import, File, or I can go to File, Import, File. I'm going to undo what we just did there. So, I can literally drag that over New Composition, and I now have a composition that's working exactly with what I have open in Character Animator. I'll open this up a little bit and you'll see it says Adobe Dynamic Link, so you know exactly what it is. I'm literally going to drag it into After Effects and let go in the Project Window. So, the easiest way to dynamically link is I'm going to grab, let's grab the Changes scene. So here in the background, you can see I've got After Effects. And, the great thing about dynamically linking means that any changes I make into Character Animator automatically apply to the projects and scenes in my other programs. Everything is automatically saved and I want to bring these into After Effects. I've got this one here, Changes, that we'll cover in another video, and I have this one, Export. So in this project of Character Animator, I've got two scenes. So, let's take a look at the process using After Effects.
Can you use adynamic link for after effects 2014 pro#
(uptempo music) In the process of dynamically linking your project from Character Animator to either After Effects, Premiere Pro is virtually the same. The best way to work with a Character Animator project file in either After Effects or Premiere Pro is to dynamically link from Character Animator to After Effects or Premiere Pro.