Videos would be bland and boring if there were no keyframes. These are most vital to effective video making, Moreover using these will make a video relevant or a boring video interesting. If a camera has not taken in certain video shots while shooting then the keyframes will do that for you. Of course, each video creator and editor software has a different operation the effects and results will be just what you want. Most detailed softwares will give you a wide range of keyframe options to enjoy with.

Every video editor divides the video into frames. When a particular change is made from a selected from to another selected frames, these two frames are known as keyframes. There are many changes that can be done using these keyframes.  How fast or slow a particular change will happen depends on distance between these keyframes. More the frames more gradual the change will be. You will need a bit of training and practice to use these frames effectively. There is a definite learning curve involved here.

Complexity of using this feature is not just the results, rather the many number of choices and their appropriate utilization as well as allocation. There are innumerable uses to these. Rather than read about these you can watch many videos from all top video editing software makers. However, here are a few that can be mentioned, learning keyframing will be a more useful thing to do.

Here are a few things that you can do with keyframes:

1. Play are with picture in picture frames, flip, rotate, zoom, move, etc. do many such things to make video interesting.

2. Lighting can be altered or made to suit narrative of your video the way you want. Fade in fade out adjust brightness, bring in flashes, do it gradually or suddenly as what you think is dramatic. You can also make it darker or brighter to bring in more expression in your story. 2211

3. Zoom in zoom out, if the camera has not done zooming in and out or closeups this is where you can edit the movie. This is why most editing happen post shooting in a room with a good video editing software. In case, the video is plain or you want to add emphasis on certain things closeups and zoom would be effective.

4 Landscape variations in angles and movement: Does your video look like it is covering a landscape in a particular angle at a particular speed? You can change the speed and angle and add other effects between keyframes to make it look exciting rather than the single video footage. Make it misty or zoom in or pan out or even increase or decrease speed and change angles of landscape, etc.

5. Sharpness, clarity, contrast, blur, etc.: Sharpen or change narrative, blur to start on another idea or theme or subject, you can do so easily within the same video with keyframing.

Basically, using keyframes can do some fascinating work for you if you have also used the innumerable opportunities in editing and adding of special effects along with many other features. All effects can be expertly maintained within two frames of the video.