Keyframe animation — IngevoraMirage

Keyframe animationKeyframes move, turn, scale and fade a layer over time. They work the same way in face lenses and screen effects.Clips, tracks and keys

A clip animates one layer. An item can have up to 16 clips.

A clip has a track for each property it animates: up to 6, one per property.

A track holds keys, each a value at a time in the clip: up to 32 per track.

Between two keys, the value moves from one to the other, shaped by the first key's easing. Before the first key and after the last, the value holds.Values are absolute. While a clip plays, its values replace the layer's own settings, its resting values. One clip plays on a layer at a time: starting another clip on that layer replaces it.What each layer can animate

Layer

Properties

Face sticker, animated sprite on a face anchor

Offset X, Offset Y and Scale (face widths), Rotation, Opacity

Frame overlay, animated sprite on the full frame

Opacity

Colour look

Intensity

Face particles

Offset X and Offset Y of the point they start from

Image, sprite

X, Y, Scale, Rotation, Opacity

Particles

Origin X and Origin Y

Full-screen sprite

Opacity, Zoom

Motion

Nothing

Rotation keys can run from −720 to 720 degrees, so a clip can spin a layer twice. The anchor and Follow head roll never animate. Each particle starts from where the clip has the starting point at that moment.Make a clip

Select a layer and choose New clip on its form. The clip is named after the layer, such as crown-anim. It lasts 1 second, plays once when an action starts it, holds its last values, and has no keys yet.

Move the playhead into the clip and change values. Each change becomes a key at the playhead.

Press K to key every property the clip animates, at the playhead, at its current value.

The clip form

Clip id — the name Play animation actions use.

Duration (ms) — from 50 to 10 000.

Loop — start again from the beginning, without end.

Autoplay — start by itself when the item's time reaches Start (ms).

Start (ms) — where autoplay starts the clip, and where the timeline and the preview place it.

At the end — Hold the last values or Return to the resting values. It has no effect while Loop is on.

Keys at the playhead — a row per property, with its value at the playhead and a diamond: filled when a key is there (click to remove it), hollow when not (click to add one).

Tracks — each property's key times. Click one to select it.

Keys sit on 10 ms steps. Outside the clip, the rows are turned off and the form says "Move the playhead into the clip".Keyframes and easingSelect a key to see the keyframe form: Time (ms, clip time), the value of each property keyed there, Easing to the next key and Delete keyframe.The easings are Linear, Ease in, Ease out, Ease in-out, Hold (jump at the next key), Back (overshoot) and Bounce.On the timelineEach clip has a row under its layer: a bar from its start for its duration, faint repeats when it loops, and a diamond at each key time. Click a diamond to select its keys and move the playhead there. Drag it to move them in 10 ms steps, never past a neighbouring key. Delete removes the selected keys.A face lens has no length, so its ruler runs to the end of its latest clip, and at least 2 seconds. You can jump along it on a photo, but not with the camera, because a live face can't be replayed.Key on the viewerWhile a clip or one of its keys is selected, your edits on the viewer set keys at the playhead instead of changing the layer itself. The viewer plays that clip, so you see it as it will play.

Screen effects, on the phone: drag an image or a sprite to key X and Y. A corner keys the scale, the round handle the rotation, and the Opacity slider the opacity.

Face lenses, on a photo: drag a sticker or a face sprite to key its offset; the anchor never changes while you key. A corner keys the scale, the round handle the rotation, and a sticker's Opacity slider its opacity. Key a colour look, a frame overlay or face particles in the clip form. Nothing is keyed on the camera.

Outside the clip, the viewer asks you to move the playhead into it.Start a clipAutoplay starts a clip at its Start (ms). The Play animation action starts a clip from the beginning when its event happens, and shows the clip's layer; see Triggers and your events.A clip keeps playing while its layer is hidden, and showing the layer doesn't restart it. In a screen effect, every clip stops at the effect's end.Keep-out zones are checked along every clip, not only at rest. See Rules and keep-out zones.