Copying Key Frames??

[Steve Eisen]

Copy and paste your attributes.

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[Michael Gissing]

Same process as filters. Copy the clip, select target clip, paste attributes and select motion.

Voila

[Zak Mussig]

Steve and Michael are right. I thought I’d add that you can add a step to this process if you want to move all the keyframes on a clip by the same amount.

Key frames normally move with a clip and you have to drag them individually in the viewer or by group / time in the timeline to move them. You can accomplish moving all of the keyframes at once by: copying the clip, removing the attributes of the clip which apply to the keyframes you’re moving, slipping the clip forward or back the amount you want to move the keyframes, pasting the attributes you had removed back onto the clip, and dragging the in and out of the clip and its position to negate the slip edit you performed.

It seems complicated, but this all happens pretty quickly, and can be much faster than moving a bunch of keyframes and making sure they’re lined up correctly on the other side.

my unsolicited 2 cents,
Zak

[Bobby Holbrook ii]

Thanks for your help everyone.

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[Sean Lander]

BRILLIANT!

The only thing I’ve changed is to do it this way.

Select the clip with the keyframes you want to adjust.
Grab the slip tool and slip the keyframes to where you want them to be taking note of the slip amount. eg. +2.12
Copy the clip.
Delete the keyframes by using remove attributes.
You still have the Slip tool active so now simple type the opposite of what you moved before. eg. -2.12
Paste attributes.

Your done.

The only problem with this method is that it will only work if you have decent handles on the clip which has the keyframes you want to adjust.

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[Rich Joyce]

What if you just want to copy one keyframe inside of a clip? EXAMPLE: I am make a photo go from 0 percent to 100 percent scale. In the middle of the clip I want to stop at 50 percent for 10 frames and then continue to 100. How could I copy the first 50 percent keyframe so I would not have to manually type in the info?

[Andy Mees]

Sadly cop and paste of individual keyframes, or individual parameters within a Motion group isn’t possible in the current version of FCP

[Dane Cannon]

One thing that you can do is to cut your video down to a loop, and then copy and paste that. IE – I had a title that I wanted to beat like a heart beat (it’d increase in size over 4 frames, then decrease back to normal over 4 frames) and I wanted this to happen with 8 frame pauses in between each ‘beat.’ I couldn’t copy keyframes, but I cut my clip down to one cycle, and then pasted multiple copies in a row. Worked perfectly.

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[Giuliana Dieni]

Hi there,

I have found a solution, not that I like to promote commercial products but fx factory latest version has a plugin called “pan and zoom” – If your project can pay that, it is worth the investment. Hopefully the next version of FC will include the copy/paste of keyframes ( can you hear me developers? ) 😉

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Giuliana Dieni Video Editor Motion Graphics –
Amsterdam,The Netherlands

[Giuliana Dieni]

errata corrige:

The “pan and zoom” effect works only on transitions.
The fx factory effect for zoom in and zoom out manipulation is called “Random close-up”. Not sure about how it works on regulated repetition of close-ups.

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Giuliana Dieni Video Editor Motion Graphics –
Amsterdam,The Netherlands