After effects; workshop five.

- Animation > keyframe assistant > ease out. If your leaving a keyframe then you ease out. This makes the movement a bit smoother. 

- The shape indicates the keyframe has an effect applied. 

- The closer the dots on the line, the slower the movement. The further away, the faster. If your going to a keyframe you ease in. 

- If you select both keyframes and easy ease the keyframe symbol changes again, this eases the solid both in and out. 

- If you click on the red solid and the graph, the graph represents the speed, its showing a constant speed. 

- This shows how the speed for the blue solid is constant and gradually comes to a stop. 

- Both ease in and ease out. 

- By clicking on the sqaures and either end of the line on the graph you can drag the yellow bars to change the curve thus, changing the speed. 

- The acceleration can be applied directly in the graph editor. 

- To apply a mask, select the solid layer and double click on the shape you'd like it to be. 

- Make the pendulum swing, we move the anchor point above the solid and then use rotation key frames to make it swing across the work space. 

- This graph means that at the bottom it picks up more speed and makes it look like a realistic pendulum. To edit the speed click on 'edit speed graph' and this gives you handles to move. 

- To apply something to solids so they all move at the same time, use the parent tool so that the first solid does something and the others follow and do the same thing. The layers that follow are the 'child' layers.

- With the car if you set the body as the parent, it makes this one layer. 

Nesting; 

- Select layer > pre compose, with all layers selected. Create a new composition with just one layer. If you double click on the layer you can edit the car imagery and it updates within the nested composition. 

- To make the car go over the hill move its anchor point. 

Sound; 

Check audio output settings.

File > Import > Drop on to timeline. 

Quicktime player 7 > Export > Sound to WAV. 

CTRL > 8: everytime there is a significant beat in a song this will drop a marker on the timeline. 

Theres a bar on the top right in AE, don't let the song go into the red area because it's too loud. Try and stay in the green. 

Audio levels can be changed for fade in and fade out.