Copying events WITH track motion keyframes

[Angelo Mike]

It seems like you’d have to duplicate the track and then delete whatever you don’t need.

[Steve Rhoden]

For a clean workflow doing this, I would recommend you
simply save your lower third only, as a project.
(name it Lower third), then in your major project you
simply drag this lower third project to the timeline above
your track as you would any other video file. This is called
Nesting, very handy feature.

Steve Rhoden
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[Norman Black]

Track motion keyframes are a part of the track and could care less if any events that may or may not exist. So to duplicate track keyframes duplicate the track.

Event pan/crop keyframes are a part of a specific event. You might want to animate your lower third with pan/crop if possible. The stretch to fit pan/crop option is probably something you would want to change. Pan/crop keyframes are copied with an event and move with the event, unlike track keyframes.

[Stephen Mann]

Steve’s solution is the best. I do lower-thirds all the time and I only have to “create” the graphics and motion once.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks for all your input gentlemen. Much appreciate the ideas.

In this case I’m using track motion, not event motions (crop/pan) because I use track parenting and “track motion” the parent.
Think a lower third popping from the bottom with background and text.

I guess I could have used Steve’s method of nesting a project, but I would have had the same issue. That is, I would have had to do track parenting with another track containing the lower-third text and motion both via parent track motion. In copying this “set” for multiple use, I still would need to copy the parent track-motion keyframes.

I ended up opening the parent track motion track to reveal the keyframes, selecting them (five in my case) and copying them at various locations where I copied all the lower-third “sets” I wanted. I was hoping to copy/paste the whole shabang in one swoop.

Gilles

[Stephen Mann]

“Think a lower third popping from the bottom with background and text.”

OK, same answer. I am having trouble conceptualizing the case where you need parent track motion. Can you post a short video of what you’re doing?

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Dave Affholter]

Open the track motion keyframe editor and select the first keyframe then shift+select the last keyframe. Right click and select “copy” (you may be able to use ctrl+c…I’m not sure). Go to the beginning of the next lower third where you want to apply the keyframe and paste them. (You can easily locate the position of the lower third using the cursor lock button in the bottom of the track fx editor.

Dave Affholter
Championship Grade Video

[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks Dave,
That’s exactly what I had to do. I was trying to avoid this by copy/pasting the keyfrmes with the events. Evidently, this can’t be done.

Cheers,

Gilles

[Gilles Gagnon]

Stephen,
the parent track motion was used to animate 2 tracks at once, using only one set of keyframes.

one track contained a lower third background, the other, the text to be displayed on that background. The parent track motion allowed me to move both, together, from off-screen to on-screen.
without parent track motion, each event or track would have required its own keyframe set. If/when an edit is required, its much more inconvenient than changing a single parent track motion.

Gilles

[Stephen Mann]

OK, same answer.

I am having trouble conceptualizing the case where you need parent track motion. Can you post a short video of what you’re doing?

In my example I did exactly this without a single keyframe or parent/child relationship.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com