Openshot How To Use Keyframes! (Keyframe Animation) | Openshot Tutorial

so key frames is something that could be a little confusing and sometimes complex if you're not really sure what it is or how to use it but today on this open shot tutorial i'm going to show you some simple ways to use keyframes within openshot that's going to make this a little bit easier to understand so let's go ahead and see how we can do keyframes within openshot welcome to another episode of geek outdoors.com on this channel you'll learn how to be creative and i'll teach you the tools you need to create so be sure to hit the like and subscribe button to help the channel create more content like this okay so before we get into how to use keyframes within openshot let me give you a general explanation of what a keyframe is and so a key frame is basically points in your clips where the properties of your clip like say the dimensions the width height even the volume is different from one keyframe to another so that's the general concept of what it is and quite often most people use keyframes whenever they want to apply a different animation a different look or maybe they want to fade in and out of volume or even just turn it off so that's kind of like the general idea and so here i'm going to show you the basics of using keyframes and i would say the keyframe capability of openshot is fairly basic but if you do play around with this you can do a lot of cool stuff okay so the first thing you want to do is obviously drag your clip down to your project timeline and then what you want to do is make sure that the clip that you want to apply the keyframes is selected so it's highlighted in red and then you want to right click on your mouse and then go here to properties so now you're going to see all these different properties and the majority of these are key frameable meaning that you can adjust the settings for particular key frames within your clips now what i'm going to show you here is how to apply keyframes at the beginning and then kind of show you how this would actually apply to you you know using animations for your video and it's going to be very simple so the first thing you want to do is make sure that your playhead is at the beginning of your clip and so the easiest way to do that is to go here and then go to jump to start and it'll go back to the very beginning of your clip and so in this case what i want to do is i want the actual video to actually zoom in so it's going to be small at the beginning and then it's going to zoom in a lot bigger so right now if you just play this it's full size right but if you wanted to start smaller at the beginning what you can do is you could actually adjust the dimensions here so here's scale x here's scale y so all you have to do is adjust it and this isn't the best way to do it i would say if you want to keep the proportions correct all you have to do is type in a number so if if one is like 100 percent point 50 is 50 so that way the dimensions are 100 correct and i'll show you another way as well so let's make this even smaller let's just say about 10 and we'll do 10 percent here on y okay so 10 percent here and now if we actually watch this we press play it's small throughout the entire clip but what i wanted to do is start small and then get larger and so now you can add another keyframe so there are a number of ways you could do this if you actually adjust any of these numbers in these properties it will automatically create a keyframe so let's say for example i want this to be now 75 and this one's 75 as well and you'll also notice whenever you add a keyframe there are these little green markers it's kind of hard to see unless you really get in close but there are green markers here signifying keyframes so if i go back to the very beginning so there's nothing there we press play see it zooms in and it stays at that particular property until you change it and add another keyframe so we can add another key frame here and in this case i want to go ahead and crop it i'm going to go ahead and crop it just a little bit crop the height crack the width and i'm also going to crop the x and y position as well and this is just to show you kind of like what you can do so it's it's not actually perfect but you can kind of see that and you could also adjust the location of x-axis y-axis so horizontal and vertical and you could also adjust the position as well and you could also adjust the rotation here so just a lot of different things but let me show you how that works so we'll go back to the beginning and we'll watch it again let me move this step back we'll watch it again so it zooms in it has all these different dimensions and for each particular keyframe whatever property that you have uh that's actually what it's gonna animate too okay so hopefully that makes sense so for example if you were at this position you notice the numbers are different and then whatever position or numbers that you put here that's what it's going to end up as okay so that's kind of like this whole concept of key frames and animation and at the same time you can do a number of things on the actual keyframe itself the first thing you could do is you could actually change the smoothness of it okay so if you actually go to any one of these properties and you see right here this means that there's a keyframe but if you right click you'll notice that there's other options there's bezier linear constant insert keyframe remove keyframe so what this means is this is actually controls the smoothness of the keyframe so the default is linear so it's just a gradual animation to the next keyframe there's also bezier which gives you a lot more option you could ease in and out and there's many different versions of that and there's also constant where nothing happens in between these keyframes basically there's no animation until you get to this point where it just suddenly changes so let me kind of show you that now i can't really tell too much difference between ease in and ease out versus linear you know but for some people they could tell the differences right away so right now it's linear so let's go ahead and change this to bezier ease in ease out so you'll notice that this now changes it's now a curve and if you press play the animation is going to be slightly different and i know this isn't the greatest example but i'm just kind of showing you it's animating to it and i'm going to go ahead and adjust this really quick because i definitely want this to be in the center let's go ahead and move this around all right we'll move right there okay so that's a little bit better so let's go ahead and start from the beginning so we're watching this and once we get to this keyframe right here it actually changes to a a bezier curve right there actually started right there at the beginning and then let's go ahead and change it to the constant one okay so we'll go to this keyframe and now instead of having a bezier curve now we say constant and what you notice is there is really no animation it just stays in this fixed properties and then all of a sudden when it gets to that other keyframe it changes okay so i guess there are certain times when you can use the constant keyframe versus a linear or bezier but it's really up to you and also there is an option where you could insert keyframe but as i stated earlier if you change any of the dimensions it'll automatically create a keyframe and you can also remove keyframes as well so it'll all automatically go back to the previous properties of the keyframe and obviously you could always type in the properties that you want okay so whatever dimensions that you want and so as you can see there that is a very simple way to do keyframes and as i stated earlier this is very basic this isn't probably the type of animation you're going to do but you kind of understand the concept where you could change all these properties and you could also change the volume properties as well so let's say for example at the beginning of this clip i already have the volume at zero right let's say for example at this keyframe i want the volume to go up so all you have to do is just increase this okay so it'll gradually so if you go here at the beginning it starts off at that volume and see and then it'll gradually increase to whatever volume you have so i'm going to go ahead and remove that keyframe and some other things with openshot keyframes currently there isn't a way that i could reset all the keyframes at once say for example you wanted to you know remove all these keyframes uh there isn't a way for me to currently do that as far as i know so hopefully openshot will add that in the future where you can reset all the keyframes at once and some other things that might help you whenever you're using keyframes if you notice you know moving from one keyframe to another currently there isn't a way to go from one keyframe to another which can definitely be a problem because these keyframe markers are really small and sometimes you might not be at exactly the place where you had keyframes so one of the things that i do is if i know that i'm going to add a keyframe what i'll do is i'll go ahead and let's go ahead and make this change i'm going to reset this remove this keyframe and what i'm going to do is i'm going to add a marker okay so what a marker is going to do is it's going to set a point here a marker right here so i'm going to go here add a marker so now there's a marker so what's nice about this is you have a keyframe and a marker so that means you could go from one key frame to another really easily if you have markers and so that way you don't have to manually try to get from one keyframe to another and so that's kind of what i do whenever i'm gonna add a keyframe like say for example gonna add a keyframe here i automatically add a marker as well so then that way i could move from you know one keyframe to another really easily so if you go here here's previous marker here is next marker and so that is a really easy way for you to you know kind of see where your keyframes are but at the same time move around your clips a lot quicker versus trying to do this manually for fast website hosting and top-notch servers and features check out siteground the preferred service news at geekoutdoors.com for more information check out the affiliate link in the description area below and now another thing that you could do with keyframes in openshot is you can actually copy these keyframe properties now this isn't exactly a perfect thing because as far as i've seen you can only copy the properties at the end and at the same time it only takes certain properties so let's say for example i wanted to copy it right here i'm going to go ahead and right click go to copy copy keyframes and if you notice there are a few options there's alpha scale rotation location time and volume so you could copy all those properties or you could do all at once so to copy all those properties and say for example i have this clip here and then i chose the clip and if you notice here are the current properties and i right click and then do paste and now when you do that it's going to bring over the rotation scale x and scale y and the volume if it had any unfortunately it doesn't bring anything else over and so that's one way that you could copy some properties keyframe properties from one to another so that will save you some time but as i stated earlier it's not quite perfect because it doesn't bring all the properties and at the same time i can't choose which keyframe property i want to bring over it like at which point you know it'll just take the very last keyframe properties that you have so you can see here it's rotation 24.79 and if you go here it's the same as the last keyframe properties i had cc there and so uh that is how you would actually apply and use keyframes within shot and as i stated earlier this is a very basic way of doing this but as you can see here if you play around with this with all these various properties there's also alpha channel properties as well there are a lot of things that you can do with this you just kind of have to be patient and at the same time make sure you have markers in place where your keyframes are set so that is it for this particular video if you actually had any thoughts in this or any other ways in which you use keyframes within openshot leave that in the comments area below and if you did want to see more of my open shot tutorials and tips i do have an entire playlist i'll leave that in the description area as well and if you're a creative geek like me and you want to get exclusive access to more content that i don't put out here publicly on my youtube channel then join my gold content creators group where you're going to get content like this and more for all the creative geeks out there and the best part is all of this is free simply head over to the link below check out the page and sign 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Length: 13min 51sec (831 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 28 2020