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How to bring your videos to life with keyframes
feat. @omgadrian
Learn how to use keyframes in Edits to bring static-feeling shots to life with smooth zooms, dynamic text, and overlays. Keep viewers engaged and make your videos more vibrant, even when filming solo!
Keyframes can easily help you make your videos feel more dynamic.
Keyframes is great for placing more emphasis on the emotion or details in your shots.
You can use keyframes on other elements of your videos such as text, overlays, and cutouts.
If you’ve ever felt like your videos feel flat, it’s probably because you’re not using keyframes.
[ 0:05 ] Whereas *THIS* can be easily achieved within Edits with keyframes. Let’s talk about how to bring your footage to life.
When you’re working with static shots that have no motion in them, it can feel like everything in your video sits still. But a simple, slow zoom-in using keyframes, can start to emphasize the emotion or the detail in your shot.
[ 0:24] This is how we do that.
Just select the clip you want to add keyframes to. Hit the diamond with the + button. Lets scrub to the end of the clip, just pinch to zoom. And that’s it. Lets watch it back.
There we go!
This tricks the eye into following the movement which helps keep your viewer’s attention because your shot starts to feel alive.
[ 0:44 ] Keyframes is also available for text, overlays, and cutouts too.
So whether you’re adding in some titles, talking directly to the camera or syncing your shot to a beat drop, keyframes are the secret weapon to making your videos feel more dynamic even when you’re filming by yourself.
