Each keyframe
stores object position
and rotation information
in time. The keyframes
tell the camera
to ???be here??? or ???stay
here??? at a specific point
in time.
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Figure 6.6 When Auto Key is active and Show Motion
Paths is turned on, manual adjustments to camera position
are reflected in its motion path.
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Note
A word of caution about Auto Key. It can be quite helpful in setting up animations, but
it can also be hazardous when you??™re working on crowded scenes that require precise
object placement. Accidentally nudge the wrong object with Auto Key on, and you can
lose hours of painstaking adjustments. For those situations, you??™ll want to become adept
at manual keyframing.
Manual Keyframing
Auto Key appeals to our natural sense of the world.When you move something, it should
stay where you put it. But there are times when Auto Key doesn??™t provide enough control.
In many ways, it??™s like using a point-and-shoot camera. Everything is automatic and easy,
but sometimes the automatic methods, which work more than 90 percent of the time,
won??™t let you do what you need to do.
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