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  • Clip Position Randomly Moving in Premiere Pro CS6

    Posted by Jeremy Mcelroy on May 23, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    OK, let me try to explain this:
    I have a clip in Premiere Pro, I have it cropped and in a certain position, with keyframes at the beginning of the clip.
    At a certain part of the clip, I want to pan to the other side of the clip.
    To do this, I duplicated the keyframe at the beginning of the clip, and pasted it where I want the pan to begin. I then made another keyframe several seconds later in the clip, moving the Position.
    I have done this many times before, including several times in the project I’m currently working on.
    My problem is, in one of the pans, between the first keyframe in the clip and the keyframe where the pan starts, the clip position is moving!
    The position goes from about 500×370, to 200×140, and then back to 500×370, in between the identical keyframes.
    I made sure the values of the beginning keyframe and the keyframe where the pan begins are exactly the same.
    I can’t find anything in Transform that would cause this. It’s driving me crazy!
    Not to mention that my deadline for the project I’m working on is in two days.
    PLEASE help me!

    Atiq Zabinski replied 11 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Marcin Grabos

    May 24, 2014 at 1:26 am

    Maybe you’re not seeing accidentally added keyframe very close to those which you put for panning.
    Or why not clean motion property of this clip by removing all keyframes and just recreate panning?

  • Atiq Zabinski

    April 8, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    I am having the exact same problem, and I’m sorry to see no one has answered you. Did you find a solution?

    I see another user in a different thread had the same problem, but his situation was complicated by Time Remapping, so the answers there were not helpful (and his problem went unsolved). Not so here. This is definitely the same problem.

    I am trying to do a fairly simple animation of a screen capture of a news article.
    Motion 1: scroll down (only vertical Position value changes),
    Motion 2: zoom in on right-hand column while continuing to scroll down (horizontal, vertical Position values change; scale changes)
    Motion 3: continue scrolling down (only vertical Position value changes).

    Problem emerges before I get to the third keyframe. The graphic is meandering like a planet between the first two keyframes, in which ONLY the VERTICAL POSITION value changes. The horizontal values of the two keyframes are the same (360), but the values in between rise and fall, reaching a height of 375.1 in the middle!


    First keyframe.


    Second keyframe.


    In between the two.

    I have tried deleting and redoing keyframes, and re-importing the graphic; it’s the same thing each time. It’s as if PP was adding invisible keyframes between the keyframes I create, and throwing in arbitrary values. It’s maddening. Any ideas?

  • Atiq Zabinski

    April 9, 2015 at 5:03 pm

    SOLUTION!!! Thanks to a friend outside this forum.

    In the Source window, you have to right-click the troublesome keyframes and make sure Spatial Interpretation is set to “Linear”, not any of the “Bezier” options.

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