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clip keyframe – position?
Why is it that all the motion properties are available in the clip keyframe bar in the timeline except the position keyframes(the one I need!) – or am I missing something?
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You can simply “drag” the image in the Viewer or Canvas with your cursor.
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I thought this was a good question, but I don’t understand the point of your answer. Perhaps you didn’t understand the question. You can also do the same with cropping and scaling, but those clip keyframes are available in the timeline. Apparently the center attribute is not available as a clip keyfaming option.
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If its just a general “Why” question and not a “how” question (as I took it)…
MY question is why can’t you copy and paste a given set of keyframes (all parameters of an effect at a given point on the timeline) something more useful than virtually anything else in PiP effects creation.
Or why does FCP “let” you use a vertical position that is not an “Even Whole Number” knowing that any other setting will be “soft”?
At least if should be a defeatable preset to AUTOMATICALLY “click” (or nudge) the V position to an Even Whole Number?Or…
🙂
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I think you’re reading the wrong thread. He asked why the position (center) parameter wasn’t available in the timeline clip keyframes bar. That’s all. It’s a good question as they aren’t available. Yoiu can adjust (and create with pen tool) other attributes of the motion tab but not position. Clip keyframes is nice, but it needs to be better. I suggest to Apple and FCP that all keyframes should be created and adjusted in a expandable area of the clip or layer ala after effets. You could leave the keyframes viewable and adjustable for all clips at all times. No more of this double click into the viewer nonsense. The timeline is where all the work should occur. Not the viewer.
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I agree Bret. For some reason you can’t smooth position keyframes either. One other problem with FCP’s motion setting is that setting keyframes outside the visible area is kind of clumsy.
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In the canvas or in the viewer? In the canvas I just zoom out like in AE. In the viewer, well, yeah, you shouldn’t have to set keyframes in the viewer. The whole thing is just strange and I’m not sure anyone at Apple knows how to fix it, since the viewer and keyframe interface has not changed one single bit since version 1.0. Nada.
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I meant setting keyframes before and after the clip is visible. So if, for instance I apply a slow dissolve the clip scales up through the dissolve rather than starting half way through it. I can do it ok but I’m working blind.
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