What I like about your tutorials is that you always focus on being holistic in your explanations, and you cover entire subjects instead of just throwing tips and tricks here and there. Well done Jake 👍
I came to AE as a character animator from Maya. The Maya graph editor makes complete sense and to this day I still can't figure out wtf is going on with Adobe's choices in AE. Thank you so much for this video that helps clear some things up!
SERIOUSLY?! I literally said that word out loud in my office while watching this and I haven't even gotten to the good part. I just can't believe you threw in the fact that there's a J and K shortcut for moving between keyframes... After years of AE I feel like a complete n00b. Thanks for, incredibly useful (and full of important, fundamental Easter eggs) tuts!
Jake I literally came home to try and move forward with my study of animation and after effects that I am pushing to be my carreer....and then I open youtube to try to have some coffee and rest a bit from my day and baaam! This video. You cannot image how much I learn and take from your videos. You are school and you are power! Love ya!
Thank you Jake for making this much easier to understand! I can tell you put a lot of time into making this tutorial! Your presentation is always top-notch man.
Coming from the 3D world, I always prefer the Value Graph because it is just second nature and makes much more sense to me. However, I believe a speed graph is a great tool to focus on the animation's velocity without thinking about all the other parameters. I'll try to use it more after watching this tutorial. Thank for that Jake. My two wishes would be that the Value Graph in AE would be more powerful, like it is in any 3D software (AE's is washed out version of it), and that all 3D apps would have some kind of Speed Graph; that would make life much easier.
I mean you’ve been one of the best tutorialists on UA-cam-not just in the motion design/ae space, but just in general-for a while now, however this might be my favorite video of yours yet. As someone who’s been working with ae for over a decade, and was for a good chunk of that time scared of the graph editor and especially the speed editor, this video is a revelation. you’ve clarified a couple of details here that have been driving me mad forever, and illuminated the “whys” on which to use and when. Just a champion of a channel, thank you so much
Huge thanks man! 7 years of motion design and I’ve never understood the value graph as clear as now. Oh, and you guessed it right: having things bounce around and do complex motions with the speed graph only is a bloody sport, to say the least :D
I use the speed graph a lot, and I think I'm pretty good at it, but that effects set you have to view the "onion skin" of the animation blew my mind. I'm going to use it a lot!
Where were you when I was in Graphic Design course at my college?? This is amazing! 3 years working with AE and I never liked the graph editor too much because I was just winging it, but now. You are my hero
funny thing: most of my work colleagues so far never understood why I would do that.. some would try it after I explained why.. others just couldn't get used to it.
I feel like somewhat of a fanboy at the moment. Goodness alone knows why I have only just found you, but it's like I need you in my life now! Just finished your Expressions course on SkillShare and now heading off to the Animating with Ease class - thank you so much for such amazing tutorials.
You are a breath of fresh air. I’ve seen lots of tutorials and most of them suck, to say the least. Anybody who needs to understand the graph editor this is about as good a tutorial as I’ve ever seen. Your explanation is clear and concise, there’s no rock music in the background, you’re not making jokes, it is a near perfect tutorial. First time I’ve ever discovered you… I need to see more from you.
Literally my 13th Jake B video that I've bookmarked for constant reference. And like the others...will most likely be going back to time and again. Great lesson for, like, everyone!
I don't know if I'd understand everything that's shown in this video after a second watch but with just one watch my fear of graphs is gone. kudos to your explanation.
Hey Jake, I've been following you for about 5 years and you helped me a lot! I started out as a graphic designer and gradually transitioned (pun intended) to my new position as full-time motion designer. Thank you so much for explaining the trade so calmly and keeping it interesting!
A brilliant video explaining the graph editors. Thanks, Jake! 🙌 I would really like to learn about examples of using a combination of eased and linear keyframes for a single animation. Like what could be some tricks where we do not ease each single one of the keyframes used.
I just had a realization and because of this realization, I regret not listening to my calculus teacher about sine waves. In the speed graph, the farther you are to the base linear line, the faster the rate of change over time. The more near the graph is to the linear line, the slower it becomes. Same with the value graph, but instead of the linear line as the base, the keyframes becomes the focal base. The farther the curve line is to the y-position of the keyframes, the less frames it produces and is less packed, more separated. --- the nearer the curve line is to the y-position of the keyframes, the more frames it produces and the more packed it becomes.
This video was terrific man. I've always been jealous of those super clean text moves people do, but always too forgetful to actually go back and learn the graph. Much appreciated.
Good tutorial. Especially the explanation about how sometimes Value Graph is better and sometimes Speed Graph. I only used Speed Graph until now, but I will look into it more now.
Excellent explanation. Exactly what I was looking for. I am gonna subscribe and like. Btw for the part that why we can not edit position in value graph and we have to separate them. Its because there are two types of properties for Position,Scale, Rotation and Opacity. Position and scale are biaxial because they have two axis X and Y whereas opacity and Rotation are single axial. To edit the values of biaxial e.g. position and scale, we have to separate them so we could work on them separately in value graph.
Your video is amazing! U've turned a daunting tool like graph editor into a crystal clear instrument to create great motion fx. Thank you! U've basically "easy-eased" the whole graph editor. Magic!
Nice tutorial on motion. Unfortunately most motion curve tutorials only focus on super basic scenarios that is just scratching the surface. Where it gets hard, and wish someone like you could shed some light on is a continuous motion. For example 3D layer coming in from out of screen into view, with a slight continuous motion back then speed out into the distance. So we can learn how to control speed in and out of key frames. For me , this is when I separate XYZ. But that becomes hard to juggle and balance. I’d love to know how you do it with the speed graph keeping the positions axis linked.
I believe the reason we can't adjust the value graph when the x, y properties are combined is because in the viewer we are able to adjust the handles/curve of the motion path. But then separating dimensions swaps those options. Having bezier handles in both workspaces at the same time would probably tear a hole in space time or something.
havent started after effects yet, but i love tto watch its videos and it was wonderfully explained. hopefully i will watch it again when i start using after effects
AE has needed to add a third graph for a while now and one that is far more intuitive to creative folks, the current ones just give me reminder shivers from my algebra/Trigonometry/logarithmic days at school
more i learn about after effects more i praise how good is fusion compare to ae like fusion smartly combines x y path in its value graph so we get power of value graph with Simplicity pf speed graph with some extra features. its sad how few people know about it
I'm having trouble with time remapping with the graph editor. For some reason one clip is perfect but the second clip following reverses at some keyframes. Really confusing and I can't seem to troubleshoot it.
Great! Would you consider make a tutorial like this one but on continuous motion? like rover across time and keyframes above 0px per second I know you touched that in this tutorial but sometimes I find it dificult when I have position paths that are not circles or straight lines... Thank you!!
I used the speed graph almost exclusively and so do most of the people I know. But the other day I met someone who said they used the value graph almost exclusively and so do all of the people they know. I'm now trying to circle back and relearn the value graph. Since I'm so used to speed it makes almost no sense but I'll try playing with these balls
Is there a detailed tutorial that you did to get the oninon skin effect, I am a begginer and the effects pannel may take me some time to learn. I wanted to learn jist how you did it in the effect menu so that I can do the same set up
Tell me please. Why can't hotkeys be used to control curves in the graph editor? In blender, I can press G and move without holding down the button. For example, select two points and scale them to 0 along the Y axis so that they are on the same level (I'm talking about the graph editor). I left AE for this reason, which is extremely inconvenient. Can this be changed somehow? In blender, animations are created faster thanks to hotkeys. How to be?
Welcome to the best rabbit hole ever. It won’t be long before you’ll feel like your day isn’t complete until you’ve heard the intro music at least once. Jake has perfected The UA-cam Tutorial but I can’t, for the life of me, pinpoint what makes them so great. I suppose it simply comes down to so many things being done so well (e.g. pace, lighting, sound, delivery, etc)
I'm embarrassed to ask, but how do you create that perfect infinity path at 15:33? I've been fiddling for about 30 minutes, and I'm guessing it's a lot easier than I think. I'm drawing on the motion path (keeping X and Y linked), but I can't replicate your path. Thank you for demystifying the Graph Editor!
Is there an option to lock the graph editor for only 1 layer? kinda annoying when im positoning a refence layer and the graph editor change to the other layer properties...
TNice tutorials was an amazing video! you really Nice tutorialt all the key points for the basics without ever over complicating anytNice tutorialng. A hard job and you did
What I like about your tutorials is that you always focus on being holistic in your explanations, and you cover entire subjects instead of just throwing tips and tricks here and there.
Well done Jake 👍
This tutorial is the best value you will ever get from a UA-cam tutorial
I came to AE as a character animator from Maya. The Maya graph editor makes complete sense and to this day I still can't figure out wtf is going on with Adobe's choices in AE. Thank you so much for this video that helps clear some things up!
SERIOUSLY?!
I literally said that word out loud in my office while watching this and I haven't even gotten to the good part. I just can't believe you threw in the fact that there's a J and K shortcut for moving between keyframes... After years of AE I feel like a complete n00b.
Thanks for, incredibly useful (and full of important, fundamental Easter eggs) tuts!
A video on graph editors never gets too old. Thanks jake!!
Jake I literally came home to try and move forward with my study of animation and after effects that I am pushing to be my carreer....and then I open youtube to try to have some coffee and rest a bit from my day and baaam! This video.
You cannot image how much I learn and take from your videos. You are school and you are power!
Love ya!
Thank you Jake for making this much easier to understand! I can tell you put a lot of time into making this tutorial! Your presentation is always top-notch man.
Thank you so much! So glad I'm able to help with these explanations.
Your vedio more effective to learn in short time and the most important part is no balderdash,thanks❤
Coming from the 3D world, I always prefer the Value Graph because it is just second nature and makes much more sense to me. However, I believe a speed graph is a great tool to focus on the animation's velocity without thinking about all the other parameters. I'll try to use it more after watching this tutorial. Thank for that Jake. My two wishes would be that the Value Graph in AE would be more powerful, like it is in any 3D software (AE's is washed out version of it), and that all 3D apps would have some kind of Speed Graph; that would make life much easier.
I mean you’ve been one of the best tutorialists on UA-cam-not just in the motion design/ae space, but just in general-for a while now, however this might be my favorite video of yours yet. As someone who’s been working with ae for over a decade, and was for a good chunk of that time scared of the graph editor and especially the speed editor, this video is a revelation. you’ve clarified a couple of details here that have been driving me mad forever, and illuminated the “whys” on which to use and when. Just a champion of a channel, thank you so much
You are too kind, thank you so much!
Huge thanks man! 7 years of motion design and I’ve never understood the value graph as clear as now.
Oh, and you guessed it right: having things bounce around and do complex motions with the speed graph only is a bloody sport, to say the least :D
I use the speed graph a lot, and I think I'm pretty good at it, but that effects set you have to view the "onion skin" of the animation blew my mind. I'm going to use it a lot!
Where were you when I was in Graphic Design course at my college?? This is amazing! 3 years working with AE and I never liked the graph editor too much because I was just winging it, but now. You are my hero
exactly. always use both. edit one while viewing the other underneat it. swap between them depending on what you need to control.
funny thing: most of my work colleagues so far never understood why I would do that.. some would try it after I explained why.. others just couldn't get used to it.
I feel like somewhat of a fanboy at the moment. Goodness alone knows why I have only just found you, but it's like I need you in my life now! Just finished your Expressions course on SkillShare and now heading off to the Animating with Ease class - thank you so much for such amazing tutorials.
You are a breath of fresh air. I’ve seen lots of tutorials and most of them suck, to say the least. Anybody who needs to understand the graph editor this is about as good a tutorial as I’ve ever seen. Your explanation is clear and concise, there’s no rock music in the background, you’re not making jokes, it is a near perfect tutorial. First time I’ve ever discovered you… I need to see more from you.
Literally my 13th Jake B video that I've bookmarked for constant reference. And like the others...will most likely be going back to time and again. Great lesson for, like, everyone!
I don't know if I'd understand everything that's shown in this video after a second watch but with just one watch my fear of graphs is gone. kudos to your explanation.
TNice tutorials tutorial is so useful,I tried tons of other tutorials but tNice tutorials was the best one
Great tutorial again Jake. You explain complicated AE controls very simply thankyou......
Been using the speed graph only till now. But this video definitely changed my mind. Thnx!
40K VIEWS??? bro this deserves like a million views!!! By far the best graph explaining i've ever watched, also that intro 😩😩😩😩😩😩😳😳😳
surfshark VPN has improved my motion graphics so much, the difference was immediate and shocking.
Can you explain how surfshark VPN has improved your motion graphics?
I'm sure it's from the ability to allow scripts to access the internet from one of thousands of private servers around the globe.
@@RyanDaily They also feature some interesting and influential motion graphics on their site. but i suspect this is irony at work here in the comment.
@@JakeInMotion …and boom goes the dynamite. 💥
@@RyanDaily Yeah its this new thing - maybe you heard of it - its called sarcasm....
This is the best free software Ive seen. Respect.
I took some of your classes in skillshare. I've learned a lot from those classes and I'm always learning new things from your videos.
Hey Jake, I've been following you for about 5 years and you helped me a lot! I started out as a graphic designer and gradually transitioned (pun intended) to my new position as full-time motion designer. Thank you so much for explaining the trade so calmly and keeping it interesting!
The quality of your videos, the great teaching method and way of explaining things are very very nice, thank you Jake :D
Super helpful! Even though I knew many of these concepts, this video helped bring them all together so I understood them better. Thank you!
A brilliant video explaining the graph editors. Thanks, Jake! 🙌
I would really like to learn about examples of using a combination of eased and linear keyframes for a single animation. Like what could be some tricks where we do not ease each single one of the keyframes used.
I checked - everything is clean
This was exactly the tutorial that I needed all this time
I just had a realization and because of this realization, I regret not listening to my calculus teacher about sine waves.
In the speed graph, the farther you are to the base linear line, the faster the rate of change over time. The more near the graph is to the linear line, the slower it becomes.
Same with the value graph, but instead of the linear line as the base, the keyframes becomes the focal base.
The farther the curve line is to the y-position of the keyframes, the less frames it produces and is less packed, more separated. --- the nearer the curve line is to the y-position of the keyframes, the more frames it produces and the more packed it becomes.
This video was terrific man. I've always been jealous of those super clean text moves people do, but always too forgetful to actually go back and learn the graph. Much appreciated.
Good tutorial. Especially the explanation about how sometimes Value Graph is better and sometimes Speed Graph. I only used Speed Graph until now, but I will look into it more now.
THANKS A LOT for making this movie. You are a star!!
I already use both, mostly the speed graph, but I still learned a few more things about the behavior. And I think you explained in wonderfully! 🎉✨
Fantastic explanation, and I really appreciate the chapters. Thanks for doing the work to put this out!
Best explanation ever, great job, thank you
Excellent explanation. Exactly what I was looking for. I am gonna subscribe and like. Btw for the part that why we can not edit position in value graph and we have to separate them. Its because there are two types of properties for Position,Scale, Rotation and Opacity. Position and scale are biaxial because they have two axis X and Y whereas opacity and Rotation are single axial. To edit the values of biaxial e.g. position and scale, we have to separate them so we could work on them separately in value graph.
Thank you so much for this super helpful video! Now I can sleep peacefully knowing I can edit better!!
Your video is amazing! U've turned a daunting tool like graph editor into a crystal clear instrument to create great motion fx. Thank you! U've basically "easy-eased" the whole graph editor. Magic!
Thank you for the tutorial, it helped me a lot to understand the graph editor overall and the diference between the 2 variations!
thank u, I hand't been able to get it before, exited to practice
Nice tutorial on motion.
Unfortunately most motion curve tutorials only focus on super basic scenarios that is just scratching the surface.
Where it gets hard, and wish someone like you could shed some light on is a continuous motion.
For example 3D layer coming in from out of screen into view, with a slight continuous motion back then speed out into the distance.
So we can learn how to control speed in and out of key frames.
For me , this is when I separate XYZ. But that becomes hard to juggle and balance. I’d love to know how you do it with the speed graph keeping the positions axis linked.
I believe the reason we can't adjust the value graph when the x, y properties are combined is because in the viewer we are able to adjust the handles/curve of the motion path. But then separating dimensions swaps those options. Having bezier handles in both workspaces at the same time would probably tear a hole in space time or something.
lol
Ha! You're probably right. I wish editing one would just modify the other, though.
@@JakeInMotion yeah that would be nice.
havent started after effects yet, but i love tto watch its videos and it was wonderfully explained. hopefully i will watch it again when i start using after effects
Finally! A thumbnail that didn't make me hover my finger over the "unsubscribe" button lol 😃 Great video to back up the clean thumbnail! 👏
Oh come on now, you know you love the liquify effect just as much as the next guy. Don't be embarrassed.
@@JakeInMotion noooo, enough with the Liquify 😂
This really what I am looking for.. now makes sense 👍
Thank you so much, this is exactly what I needed❤😌
AE has needed to add a third graph for a while now and one that is far more intuitive to creative folks, the current ones just give me reminder shivers from my algebra/Trigonometry/logarithmic days at school
this program works great! exactly as I wanted
This tutorial was well detailed. Earned a sub. I can confirm this is legit.
Your videos are too helpful and simple
Well presented and informative without being overwhelming. Thanks!
love you for that onion skin plug in😚
perfect explanation and easy to understand thanks for sharing
Oh my god, my brain is exploding inside my skull, but I start to understand graph editor. Probably need to watch this 5 more times🤣 Big thanks!
more i learn about after effects more i praise how good is fusion compare to ae like fusion smartly combines x y path in its value graph so we get power of value graph with Simplicity pf speed graph with some extra features. its sad how few people know about it
now i am in a good mood
Exelent Teaching.. I got it... Can not include the value in the word "thanks" ☺☺👍👍💓💓
Thank you so much for this! Well presented and explained. You get two thumbs up from me!
Talk about the learning curve in life's graph editor, haha! Awesome video Jake, thank you so much! Keep it up!
Great tutorial Jake
great examples to illustrate. Thank youu
This was really informative. Thank you!
Thank you
Would it be possible to send a screenshot of your onion skin preset settings?
I'm having trouble with time remapping with the graph editor. For some reason one clip is perfect but the second clip following reverses at some keyframes. Really confusing and I can't seem to troubleshoot it.
i finally made so good soft. thanks ❤
does the onion skin rig plug in doesnt wor anymore? im having trouble setting it up
Great!
Would you consider make a tutorial like this one but on continuous motion? like rover across time and keyframes above 0px per second
I know you touched that in this tutorial but sometimes I find it dificult when I have position paths that are not circles or straight lines...
Thank you!!
Great Video! Im new on soft soft, and tNice tutorials tutorial really helped
Got here before it blows up!
I used the speed graph almost exclusively and so do most of the people I know. But the other day I met someone who said they used the value graph almost exclusively and so do all of the people they know. I'm now trying to circle back and relearn the value graph. Since I'm so used to speed it makes almost no sense but I'll try playing with these balls
i've come to peace with my own inability to understand either graph. I'm okay with who I am.
Thank you Jake!!
Linus of Motion Graphics eh! Well played.
wish they make this graph editor just like 3d tool software (Maya, Blender), thank you for uploading tutorial
Is there a detailed tutorial that you did to get the oninon skin effect, I am a begginer and the effects pannel may take me some time to learn. I wanted to learn jist how you did it in the effect menu so that I can do the same set up
Thank you sir, in tNice tutorials tutorial I've learnt alot from you!
It's working thanks my friend
OKKK I CHECK THIS TONIGHTTTT BROOO THX
Tell me please. Why can't hotkeys be used to control curves in the graph editor? In blender, I can press G and move without holding down the button. For example, select two points and scale them to 0 along the Y axis so that they are on the same level (I'm talking about the graph editor). I left AE for this reason, which is extremely inconvenient. Can this be changed somehow? In blender, animations are created faster thanks to hotkeys. How to be?
great tutorial
Really good video! I wish I had a video like this when i started in AE many years ago. 😊
yeah all those lines on the graphs so overwhelming. lol this is why complex animations scare me.
Great tutorial Jake, thanks for sharing!... Greetings.
Just discovered your channel! awesome videos and very easy to follow! would love a tutorial on Newton 3
Welcome to the best rabbit hole ever. It won’t be long before you’ll feel like your day isn’t complete until you’ve heard the intro music at least once.
Jake has perfected The UA-cam Tutorial but I can’t, for the life of me, pinpoint what makes them so great. I suppose it simply comes down to so many things being done so well (e.g. pace, lighting, sound, delivery, etc)
I'm embarrassed to ask, but how do you create that perfect infinity path at 15:33? I've been fiddling for about 30 minutes, and I'm guessing it's a lot easier than I think. I'm drawing on the motion path (keeping X and Y linked), but I can't replicate your path. Thank you for demystifying the Graph Editor!
Very Helpful video. Thank you jake❤️🥰
¡Qué buen tutorial!
Is there an option to lock the graph editor for only 1 layer? kinda annoying when im positoning a refence layer and the graph editor change to the other layer properties...
Blakk Bee Mac version seems to have so better support for certain midi devices. And not using the ASIO drivers has a lot to do with
Thank you so much Sir...😍😍😍
thank you !!! this helped a ton
Wow skillshare course, I took that there
good work king, love you
how can I adjust graph editor for puppet tool? cannot find stick value
TNice tutorials was an amazing video! you really Nice tutorialt all the key points for the basics without ever over complicating anytNice tutorialng. A hard job and you did
Thanks it really saved me ♥♥♥️