A quick tip for those of you who’ve been struggling with unwanted motion between two identicle keyframes in After Effects. If you’re experiencing anything similiar to the attached animation then read on. You arent going mad, it’s a little quirk in After Effects which is simple to fix.

There are a number of ways in which After Effects calculates the distance between to keyframes. The example attached makes use of bezier tweens, which are lovely for easing in and out of keyframes. There is, however, a downside. Bezier tweens don’t like freeze frames. The solution is to convert the animation to linear enterpolation, and then deal with the finer points of the animation on a more granular level.