Premiere Pro is going to assume that you are the ‘Key Frame Animator’ in that you are going to specify the starting and ending point of an animation by adding keyframes. I have heard these junior animators described as “tweeners”, for the type of time intensive work they were assigned to do.įast forward until today. Once they’d finish creating those keyframes, they would go off leaving a junior animator to work the rest of the day creating the ‘inbetweens’, the intermediate frames between the keyframes that give the animation movement. In those days the senior animators would come in at the start of the day and create the keyframes. The use of keyframes in animation was popularized by Disney, where many of the early principles of animation were worked out. The keyframe signals the start and end of on-screen animation. The term keyframe goes back to the early days of film, when the first animated film “Gertie the Dinosaur” was created. How can you create animations using keyframes in Premiere Pro? What are keyframes, anyway? A Bit of History on Keyframes Simply put, you can quickly animate elements in your Premiere Pro timeline by clicking on the little stopwatch icon besides an effect name in your Effects Control panel:īut let’s dig deeper than that.
In this post, we’ll learn how to animate them. In an earlier post we took at look at the into the fixed effects options in Premiere Pro. Animate and modify fixed effects in your Adobe Premiere Pro timeline to create basic animations.