How to Add Keyframes in Affter Effects

Adding Keyframes in After Effects

The Project

Before you add keyframes, you'd, first, want to import your project. To do this, you can go to the File tab in the top left corner and click Import > File.

After getting your files imported, you want to drop in the files to the queue in the bottom of Adobe AfterEffects

Next, you want to drop down the menu for the clip you want to edit. You'll be met with this menu

                       

                     

Effects, Transform, and Audio are the sections you can add keyframes to. Say you want to change where a clip is going. You first want to open the menu to Transform.

                             

You'll see these options appear. Anchor will change where your anchor point is, Position will, obviously, change the position of you clip, Scale will change the size of your clip, Rotation will change the rotation of your clip, and Opacity will change how clear your clip is. 

Before adding a keyframe, make sure both your scrubber and the beginning of your video are lined up. After making sure they are, click on the stopwatch type button next to what you want your video to do. 

In the screenshot above, you can see all the seperate blue numbers. You can click and buffer the numbers to change which aspect you want to change. Once you make that change, you should get something like this under your clip

                               

Those are called Keyframes and you just entered them! Huzzah!