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496 17. Keyframing

ProShow follows the same approach -you as the creator of an effect decide
how something should start and end, and ProShow handles the “tweening”
process.

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, do you want to colorize the
image as it moves, etc.
Think about it as if you're planning a road trip. You need to know where
you'll start and you need to know where you want to go. Each keyframe is
just point on the map along the way. Points that tell you where to turn
stop, etc.

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.