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TaranVH
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
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The option to have keyframes use linear spatial interpolation by default, instead of auto beizer!

  • January 24, 2023
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After Effects has this option, and for good reason! Auto bezier leads to all sorts of unintentional movement. This is especially newb-unfriendly.
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TaranVH
TaranVHAuthor
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Just adding some links to other forum threads / pages discussing the same issue:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058733
https://forums.creativecow.net/docs/forums/post.php?forumid=3&postid=965843&univpostid=965843&pview=t

https://tutvid.com/video-editing/5-must-know-tips-better-smoother-animations-premiere-pro/

After Effects has the option to change the default to "linear," but this article doesn't even mention that. Looking through the comments, though, you can see how many people are affected by the issue of having Auto Bezier be the default:
https://greyscalegorilla.com/tutorials/most-common-animation-mistake-in-after-effects-and-how-to-fix-it-wobbly-keyframes/
drsteuss
Participant
January 24, 2023
Amen! I was promised a "JDI update" ("Just Do It" in Adobe developer lingo) to get this feature added to Premiere at NAB 2018. A year later, it's still one of the issues that drives me the farthest up the wall. A checkmark to set the default spatial interpolation to linear in the preferences like After Effects would solve soooo many headaches and save all the time I currently spend highlighting the position keyframes in every edit and switching them to linear.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Taran, Idon't understand :my keyframes use linerar spatial interpolation by default and not auto bezier.
My config:
Windows 10 Pro v 1709 (10.0.16299 ) uptodate 2018-04
Core i7-3930K/3.20 GHz 12MB 64Bit
ASUS NVDIA GeForce GTX 680 2Go v 391.35 03/27/2018
64Go RAM DDR3
Premiere pro v 12.1.0 (Build 186) French