Path Trouble

Hi, I'm having issues with After Effects. When I make position keyframes from point A to B, sometimes (usually) it likes to start going the way I want it to, but then pretty much right in the middle, it will back up for a few frames then continue on it's path again. This happens a lot to me but I've searched for others with the same problem and come up with nothing...probably because it's difficult to put into words *looks at paragraph above*... This happens with pretty much any type of key frame. I'm using AE 6.5. I've used AE off and on for years and this has been a problem that has always plagued me. Thanks to anyone that can be of any assistance!

Aharon Rabinowitz has a pair of video tutorials in which he demonstrates, discusses, and works around the "boomerang" motion:
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_1.php
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/boomerang_2.php
There's also information about this in the
"Controlling change with interpolation" section of After Effects Help on the Web.

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Is the virtual folder on a different computer?
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> In IIS5, I have a site with some virtual folders mapped
within the
> directory structure.
> i.e.
>
> site
> includes
> config
> _virtual folder to another location mapped here
>
> Which works fine.
> The same cannot be said for IIS6 which, when browsing
the page that
> requires a file from that virtual folder, tells me that
the file cannot be
> found.
>
> I have checked the permissions on the actual folders on
the server and the
> IUSR account has the same privelidges as it had on my
Win2K box.
> Is there something else I'm missing that needs setting
in IIS6 to make
> this work?
>
> Finding this info on google is extremely painful, if not
completely
> impossible.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
http://robgt.com/ [Tutorials and
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>
>
>

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