• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Keyframing – last keyframe keeps adjusted image on screen for duration of the clip

  Posted by Evelyn Carrigan on January 18, 2012 at 9:19 pm

  Scenario:

  I have a 10-second video clip that I’m overlaying with a still image. I place my still over the clip for exactly 10 seconds. I’m going to keyframe the still.

  3 seconds into the clip I set my beginning keyframe (keeping all settings at the default 100% scale and X:Y 0 position). I move my playhead 2 seconds ahead and set my ending keyframe, which scales my overlayed still to 25% and moves it to the lower right corner.

  What I want is for that scaled, repositioned still to remain there for the duration of my video clip. What happens is it immediately pops back to the center of the frame (I’m assuming at X:Y 0 position), but it’s still scaled at 25%! I don’t want it to go anywhere, I want it to stay put.

  Any advice?

  Thank you,
  Evelyn

  Mitch Ives replied 14 years, 7 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Nick Toth

  January 18, 2012 at 9:46 pm

  It sounds like there is an extra keyframe with XY=0,0 after your 2nd set of keyframes

  NT
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  Evelyn Carrigan

  January 19, 2012 at 12:58 am

  Thank you for your speedy response. It’s interesting because we cleared all keyframes and tried 3 or 4 times and still had that trouble. Do you think we need to go to the end of the still frame clip and set keyframes with the adjusted scale/position so that it will stay on consistently through the end?
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  Evelyn Carrigan

  January 19, 2012 at 1:43 am

  I went back and realized that I set a keyframe for position, but when I move the scaled image to its new position, that also created a keyframe. I was doing it old-school.

  So that’s it. For position and scale using the viewer screen, they create their own keyframes when adjusted. In other words, you don’t set them in the inspector, just do it in the viewer.

  Thanks so much!
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  Nick Toth

  January 19, 2012 at 3:43 am

  Glad you figured it out. It helps to be methodical with keyframes otherwise you can get a lot of weirdness going on.
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  Bill Davis

  January 20, 2012 at 6:01 am

  We all “click in” to how things work at our own rate and only after we face the issue.

  I personally struggled with keyframing in the timeline for the longest time, before I saw a guy invoke the clip based keyframe editor.

  For months I didn’t even know that existed! I was adjusting all my keyframes in the un-expanded strip display which is a HUGE PITA.

  I’m ashamed to admit how long I did it the dumb way.

  “Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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  Mitch Ives

  January 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm

  [Bill Davis] “We all “click in” to how things work at our own rate and only after we face the issue.

  I personally struggled with keyframing in the timeline for the longest time, before I saw a guy invoke the clip based keyframe editor.

  For months I didn’t even know that existed! I was adjusting all my keyframes in the un-expanded strip display which is a HUGE PITA.

  I’m ashamed to admit how long I did it the dumb way.”

  To be fair, we all have a story like that… no make that many stories like that. As Thomas Edison said “I didn’t fail… I simply discovered all the ways it didn’t work first”…

  Mitch Ives
  Insight Productions Corp.

  “Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” – Winston Churchill

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