Use MARKERS to CONTROL ANIMATIONS in After Effects | Adobe After Effects Tutorial

Published: 31 July 2023
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In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to control the speed of your animation in and and animation out, as well as the duration of your overall animation with a very cool and powerful expression that can be used on literally any kind of animation.

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Expression
var start = thisLayer.inPoint;
var markerIn = thisLayer.marker.key(1).time;
var markerOut = thisLayer.marker.key(2).time;
var end = thisLayer.outPoint;
if (marker.numkeys = 1){
m=marker.nearestKey(time).index;
tag=marker.key(m).comment;
if (tag == "IN") { linear(time, start, markerIn, 0, 1)}
else if (tag =="OUT") {linear(time, markerOut, end, 2, 3)}
}

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Tutorial Table of Contents
00:00 - What you’ll learn!
00:43 - Overview
01:15 - Example 1: Add markers
02:18 - Add Time Remap code
02:59 - Code breakdown and analysis
05:06 - Check out the results!
05:45 - Save as an Animation Preset
06:03 - Example 2: Add markers
06:29 - Add our Animation Preset
06:55 - Adjust the code to fit our animation
07:19 - Check out the results!
07:37 - Summary
08:06 - AE Juice promo
09:38 - Outro

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