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copy and paste keyframes
i want to do this for position parameter. cant find the answer to this in the help? or in the menus? am i missing something really obvious?
thanks in anticipation!
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Select the clip with the keyframes you want to transfer and hit APPLE-C. Then highlight the clip you want to apply them to and hit OPTION-V. Choose BASIC MOTION. The keyframes will stay exactly timed out as they were in the clip you copied them from. If the clip is 3 seconds, the keyframes within that 3-seconds are what get transferred. So if the destination clip is 5 seconds, they keyframes happen in the first 3 seconds.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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OTOH, if you mean copy and paste of a single point (like a position of a PIP) like you can do in Avid, sorry to say FCP can’t do it.
Its my biggest complaint about the FCP motion tab.
To be able to copy a given position at a certain point in the effect, with all aspects of that position (size, shadow, crop, vertical, horizontal, etc.) and then paste it on another point in the effect is a very important feature… sadly missing.
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[Shane Ross] “So if the destination clip is 5 seconds, they keyframes happen in the first 3 seconds.”
Unless you leave “Scale to Clip Length” or whatever that checkbox says at the top of Paste Attributes. If you leave that box checked on, then the keyframes actually get spaced out over the length of the clip being pasted to.
Another easy way to do this is with the original modified Clip in the Viewer, simply go up to Effects > Make Favorite Motion. Look in your Effects Tab and you’ll see a new icon there which is your keyframed Motion. You can rename it if you like. This stores all the keyframes across the Motion tab.
I use this feature all the time in Good Eats and have about 35 prebuilt motions saved to re-use in each episode.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[walter biscardi] “Another easy way to do this is with the original modified Clip in the Viewer, simply go up to Effects > Make Favorite Motion. Look in your Effects Tab and you’ll see a new icon there which is your keyframed Motion. You can rename it if you like. This stores all the keyframes across the Motion tab.”
Of course, I forgot to mention how to apply this to new clips. All you do is drag the icon onto whatever clips you want to have the same motion, keyframes and all.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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ask and you shall receive! thankyou.
it is strange that it cant be as simple as selecting a group of keyframes, copying and pasting. It is such a matter of habit to work like this in AE… weird that you have to go through extra steps in such an established application… ???
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