How to Ease Keyframes in Premiere Pro

This guide shows two ways to ease keyframes in Premiere Pro: the built-in method, and a faster method with the EaseFlow plugin.

Why linear keyframes look robotic

By default, most keyframes in Premiere Pro use linear temporal interpolation. The value changes at the same speed from the first frame to the last, so there is no acceleration at the start and no slowdown at the end. Easing changes the speed over time while the start and end values stay the same.

Method 1: Ease keyframes with Premiere Pro's built-in tools

Select your clip and open the Effect Controls panel.
Find the keyframes you want to smooth, for example on Position or Scale.
Right-click the first keyframe and choose Temporal Interpolation > Ease Out.
Right-click the second keyframe and choose Temporal Interpolation > Ease In.
Twirl open the property with the small arrow to see its graph. Drag the blue Bezier handles to make the curve steeper or softer.

This works, but it has limits. The handles are small and fiddly, you have to repeat the steps for every keyframe pair, and there is no library of curves you can reuse, so getting the same feel twice takes guesswork.

Method 2: Apply real easing curves with EaseFlow

EaseFlow is a Premiere Pro panel that brings real easing curves to your keyframes. Pick a curve, press Apply, and every frame between your two keyframes follows it.

One click. Apply at the playhead, or give your favourite curves their own keyboard shortcuts.
Auto Mode. Create two keyframes and they are eased automatically.
A real graph editor. Shape any curve by hand, with snapping.
Undo without worry. One press of Cmd/Ctrl+Z takes the easing back off.
Clean timelines. EaseFlow adds only the keyframes a curve needs and never touches yours.

Because the curve is the same every time, your animations keep a consistent feel across a whole project instead of depending on how you happened to drag a handle.

Which easing curve should you use?

Ease out (fast start, slow end) for things entering the frame, like titles sliding in.
Ease in (slow start, fast end) for things leaving the frame.
Ease in-out for moves that start and end on screen, like a zoom or a pan.
Overshoot or bounce for playful pop-ups, icons and captions.

More ways to animate faster

If you would rather not keyframe at all, the Ultimate Premiere Pro Preset Pack includes 500+ drag-and-drop animations with easing already built in, and the Smooth Text Animation Template handles text animation for you.