Last night at After Efects New York, one of my friends came up to me and said he really liked the binary transition tutorial, but felt that in the final result, you couldn’t see the numbers clearly.

Well, the simple solution is to just slow things down a bit.  It’s not a big deal to do – just spread out the keyframes a little more. And you can do that either in the graph editor, or by just simply selecting all of the keyframes in the timeline (do it for all layers at once), and then just grab hold of one of the Keyframes on the end, and then, holding down Alt (option on a mac), drag them further down in time (to the right), and the keyframes will stretch/scale apart from each other.

If you’re not clear on that, Andrew Kramer has Basic Animation tutorial that discusses this, and you can find this specific info at 6 Min. & 38 Sec. in the video.

I stretched it so that the middle keyframes end up on the 3 second mark (previously on 1:15) which means I’ve doubled the length of the animation. You can do it yourself, but you can also grab my file here. It doesn’t include the footage, so make sure to download the actual tutorial project file, and just put this AE file in the same folder as the original AE project.

Tags: 24, AE, After Effects, Binary, Form, project file, Transition, Trapcode, update