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Manipulating keyframe tangents

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Manipulating keyframe tangents

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- [Instructor] To fine-tune animation, we'll want to get familiar with manipulating keyframe tangents. I've got the Curve Editor open and I'll select the camera, play this back, and we've got a pretty good animation, but we can definitely improve on this. We can control the slow in and slow out of the keyframes so that the camera will come up to speed and slow down more gracefully. We can also adjust the rotation slightly to avoid what I'm seeing here, which is a reversal of screen direction. That's when an object on the screen changes direction relative to the frame, and it's not a very smooth motion. If we look at the corner of this wall, in the first half of the animation, it's moving towards screen right. And then in the second half, it moves towards screen left. But if we kept a consistent direction of motion relative to the frame, it would look smoother. Animation of cameras is particularly delicate because a tiny movement of the camera is going to have a disproportionately…

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