And now there’s nothing I prefer in Avid

[Rob Tinworth]

Yup, it’s painful in FCP. Which is odd – the keyframes for everything apart from Centre are easy to manipulate. And I’ve never got good results from the ease in/out shortcuts in the canvas.

I make the move in FCP as a linear move – ie lay all the keyframes. Then right click the clip and send to Motion. In Motion, F6 brings up your timeline, and the little purple diamond in the corner allows you to see the keyframes you laid in FCP. Right click on one your keyframes and select ‘Show in keyframe editor. Then lasso all the keyframes on the vertical and right click/interpolation/ease in.

Then either export as a new clip and drop into your timeline, or if you left ‘Embed Motion Content’ on, it will just appear in your timeline.

It’s a bit of a fiddle, but doesn’t take that long and the keyframe editor in Motion gives you a lot of control over the move, all in real (or close to real) time, depending on your setup.

Rob Tinworth
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