<table border="0" cellpadding="20px" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_8_0_0.html" title="Animating Effects">Previous</a> | <a href="1_8_2_0.html" title="Choosing an animation work area">Next</a> | <a href="1_8_0_0.html">Animating Effects</a></div><h3 class="head1">About animating effects</h3><hr /><ol><p class="paragraph">You can animate effects with either automatic presets or manually-created keyframes. Presets provide a quick, easy way to apply common animation effects. (See <a href="1_7_3_1.html">Applying preset effects</a>.) For more precise and complex animation, manually create keyframes.</p><p class="paragraph">When you create a keyframe, you specify the value of an effect property for a specific point in time. When you apply different values to keyframes, Adobe Premiere Elements automatically calculates the values between the keyframes, a process called <span class="Emphasis">interpolation</span>. For example, to add a blur effect that increases and decreases over time, you would set three keyframes--the first with no blur, the second with blur, and the third with no blur. Because Adobe Premiere Elements automatically interpolates the blur values between each keyframe, the blur gradually increases between the first and second keyframes and then gradually decreases between the second and third keyframes.</p><p class="paragraph">Animating with keyframes involves the following basic steps:</p><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="1">Apply an effect to a clip. (See <a href="1_7_2_0.html">Applying and organizing effects</a>.)</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="2">Add multiple keyframes for that effect. (See <a href="1_8_3_0.html">Adding and deleting keyframes</a>.)</li><li class="numberstep" type="1" value="3">Specify keyframe values for effect properties. (See <a href="1_8_4_0.html">Specifying keyframe values</a>.)</li><p class="note"><span class="bold">Note:</span> Some effects cannot be animated with keyframes. For more information, see the documentation for individual effects.</p><div class="anchorc"><img src="images/an_01.gif" alt="Illustration of Highlighted frames indicating where Twirl effect keyframes are placed in the timeline: with these callouts: A. Original video B. Video with animated Twirl effect, interpolated for in-between frames" height="142" width="554" /></div><div class="caption">Highlighted frames indicate where Twirl effect keyframes are placed in the timeline: <span class="bold">A.</span> Original video <span class="bold">B.</span> Video with animated Twirl effect, interpolated for in-between frames</div></ol><hr /><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_8_0_0.html" title="Animating Effects">Previous</a> | <a href="1_8_2_0.html" title="Choosing an animation work area">Next</a> | <a href="#top">Top</a> | <a href="1_8_0_0.html">Animating Effects</a></div></td></tr></table>
