After Effects Graph Editor

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November 17, 2018
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So, I have a Fortnite montage to edit. Since I want to have flow in it, I need to use After Effects. I don't have a problem with After Effects, but the thing is that you need to work with the Graph Editor to make it look good. I really didn't mind this, so I first started to place my time remapping keyframes where my character would shoot and land. I then synced those with the markers I placed to the song and then clicked on the graph editor. In the tutorial and every tutorial about having flow, you need to drag one line up and the other down and the lines should look bumpy. Here is the part where this person starts to do the graph editor part. The problem is that in my comp, the video keeps going back and forth. What I mean is it will reverse, then go normal, then go reverse again, over and over until the whole clip is done. I need help to make it look like the guy who did it in the tutorial. I've lifted one line a bit up, but not too high; maybe as high as his. Please help me fix this issue!

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Mo Moolla

Legend

Post a screengrab of your graph editor as it looks with the animation done.

Mo Moolla

Legend

Oh dear that video was to say the least not very good,

It will confuse you more than assist you.

As Rick mentioned learn as much about the Graph Editor as you can from reliable experts and not some child who assumes he understands what he's doing.

Let us know if theres anything else you need

Mo

gametube527769351Author

Participant

Try watching this one: Time Remap Syncing Tutorial w/ Graph Editor

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Rick Gerard

Community Expert

Well, I watched the tutorial and it's pretty lousy. You have an amateur that is not explaining anything, just flying through a sloppy way to do time remapping. You have to Vet your trainers. This guy did not explain that he was editing the speed graph. The controls look different. If you have handles you can't bend, you are editing the value graph.

Please spend some time learning how to use the Graph Editor by typing Graph Editor in the Search Help field at the top right corner of AE.

If all you are doing is retiming shots there's a lot easier way to do that. If your sequence is longer than a few seconds you'll be much better off and get done in a lot less time if you use Premiere Pro. AE is not an editing app. Trying to cut a thirty-second montage in AE that has 15 or 20 shots in it is going to get real messy real fast. I could duplicate the example project in Premiere Pro in just a few minutes including a bunch of time changes.

gametube527769351Author

Participant

Here is another one. I don't wanna use Premiere cause I'm trying to make every shot sync up, and in Premiere, it doesn't look as good as in AE. Time Remap Syncing Tutorial w/ Graph Editor

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