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428 17. Keyframing

Modern keyframing follows this same approach, with one major exception.
ProShow handles the “tweening” process, only requiring you to set your
keyframes – that is, where you want your slide to start and end. This makes
your job much easier, because ProShow handles the hardest and most time
consuming part of the job for you.

How to Think In Keyframes

Working with keyframing requires a bit of an adjustment to the way you
think about creating movement and setting up what you want your slide to
do. Thankfully, keyframing is an incredibly linear process, letting you
determine what you want your slide to do and working from there.

It’s best to start with a concept of what you want to see in your slide. Do
you want your image to pan across the slide, revealing part of the image
that may be in one corner? What you want to see happen is the entire plan
you need to create your effect. From there you can approach your effect
almost like reading directions on a map. Remember that keyframing
involves setting up what you want each major point in a slide to look like.
With that in mind, you start setting up the basics. If you want to pan a layer
from one side of your slide to the other, you have your two main points of
action, or keyframes. Point 1 will be on one side of the slide, and Point 2 will
be on the opposite side.

No matter how many keyframes you work with, the thought process is the
same. Figure out where you want your layer or caption to start, where you
want it to go, and make each destination one keyframe at a time – just like
reading directions.

Finally, remember that as you learned in the earlier chapters, each layer or
caption that you add retains all settings individually. This includes
keyframes, so every layer/caption will have its own set of keyframes to work
with.