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The “Wobbly Keyframe” problem has been plaguing After Effects animators everywhere. I made this short cast on how to get rid of the problem.
If your not sure what it looks like, check out this video.
Sick of my face? Want the three step program to obedient keyframing? Here ya go…
Step One: Select the offending Wobbly Keyframes.
Step Two: Right click and select “Keyframe Interpolation”
Step Three: Set Spacial Interpolation to “Linear”
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When I was just starting out this gave me the most headaches and I could never find anywhere that told me what the deal was. Great that you explained it for everyone.
Also – another workaround would be to use hold keyframes.
I’ll be watching this later today, it’s going to come in handy
This issue is described in the tip at the bottom of the “Controlling change with interpolation” page of After Effects Help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7d98a.html
There’s also a good pair of tutorials by Aharon Rabinowitz about this:
http://podcasts.creativecow.net/after-effects-tutorials-podcast/ae-boomerang-effect-part-1
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_2.php
Sometimes I watch these beginner tutorials and I think to myself, whatever, I know this stuff. But there’s always some tiny morsel to learn in after effects.
Case in point, I had no idea the motion path color corresponded to the layer color. lol
thanks nick, that is one of my biggest problems. you helped me a ton. nice “the more you know” reference to.
Thanks a lot fr this post nick!! i have this problem most of the time. Finally i know how to fix it. i have a question tho, do you know how to create “double vision” effect in after effects? you know to show those “drunk” feeling
Love your site Nick! keep it up.
To get ride of this keyframing problem I always go to…AFX Preferences, General, click on “Default Spatial Interpolation to Linear”.
Great Tip Brook. Also, maybe someone can find Zee a link to a Double Vision Tutorial? Ill keep my eye out.
Thanks so much for this! An annoyance I didn’t even know could be fixed. Sorted.
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Thanks so much for posting this Nick. This motion path wobble issue has been a source of frustration for many years.
Josh
veryyy grateful for sharing this awesome tip.
may God bless you
you could also select the keys and, with the arrow tool selected, hold down ctrl+alt (which changes the arrow to the “carrot” tool) then click in the composition window on one of the selected keys. different method, same result.
Wow, this has been a problem for me for a while. Thanks so much!
thank you sir! I never understood why it did i would get soo pisssed i am so glad i know ho wot handle that punk ass “wobbly keyframe” when he shows up again lol thanks again
thank you so much for this!!!
Aaaaah!! I can’t remember what I was doing.. I had something orienting along a path.. and the objects would rotate around uncontrollably.. I spent hours trying to get rid of the bezier handles with the pen tool..
Thanks for that!!
‘ll check out those adobe links
This really helped a lot in understanding why its happeneing, Thanks!
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Thanks for all!!!
Thks, helps a lot, excelent video tutorial.
Keep the good work.
THANKS!!! NO MORE SMASHING THE KEYBOARD!
Great Tutorial!
Thanks for explaining what’s behind it as well!