Re-Key
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Motion Studio version 1.1.0 adds a new system and tool called Re-Key to assist you with complex animations. With Re-Key, you can save selected keyframes to presets to apply any time to new layers. Re-Key has two modes (and more on the way) with true keyframe values and a secondary auto-calculation to apply the keyframes relative to your Composition size.
You can find Re-Key in your Motion Studio extension under Tools -> New, or Tools -> Keyframes.
Once open, you'll see that Motion Studio comes with 6 Re-Key presets to demonstrate functionality. Feel free to use, or delete, these presets.
To create a Re-Key, click the "Create button". This opens a modal dialog that polls your selected keyframes. If you re-select different keyframes you can click the "Refresh" button. The selected Keyframes will be shown in the preview:
You can input a custom name for this Re-Key, and Save to your library.
With the New Re-Key selected, you have the option to Apply or Apply Relative.
Apply: Applies the saved keyframes to a new layer or layers. All of the keyframe values, easings, colors, etc., will be passed on. Notably, Apply will copy the keyframe values exactly as they were when they were saved.
Apply Relative: This mode works for keyframes that include any Positional properties. We will calculate the position keyframes in relation to the size of the composition containing the layer you are applying to. For example, if your Re-Key position starts at the top-left corner of your original composition, and moves to the bottom-right corner, then Apply Relative will translate the same positional changes to layers in compositions of any aspect ratio.
Customization of Re-Keys can be done easily in the Motion Studio Application, by clicking the Edit icon in the top-right corner.
For now, you have the option to give your Re-Keys custom names, and colors. Click on a Re-Key and open the side panel to customize:
Re-Keys are also draggable, and can be rearranged.
Re-Keys can be added to a Mini by right-clicking the Re-Key and choosing which Mini panel to add it to. Once added, you can choose to apply this Re-Key as Relative or not. You can also assign a modifier key (e.g. cmd+click) to Apply Relative.
Once in your Mini, you can one-click apply your Re-Key to any selected layer!
Let's walk through how we would create and apply a "Carousel" Re-Key.
We'll add some position and scale keyframes to create a carousel effect for some text
Open Re-Key with your keyframes selected, and save as "Carousel"
We're setting up a new project to apply the Re-Key in. Here, we'll have an animation that cycles between three different text blocks in the same carousel pattern:
For each layer, apply the carousel Re-Key. Once applied, we can also use "Trim to Keys" to trim the layers to the in and out keyframes. Then we can use the Stagger tool to apply a short overlap between each layer:
