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Editing Keyframes in the Canvas
Does anyone have any advice on getting consistent behavior when editing center point keyframes in the canvas? I feel like sometimes I’m able to grab keyframes and move them around, and others There’s no way to click anywhere near them without just creating a new keyframe along the motion path (which I very much don’t want to do).
These are simple two point animations with still images. There are fades between the images, and I’ve adjusted the keyframes in the timeline so every image begins its motion at the beginning of its fade in, and doesn’t stop until the end of its fade out. That’s why I can’t simply go to the first or last frame if the clip in the timeline to adjust my keyframes.
Are there settings that need to be a certain way in the timeline, canvas, or somewhere else? I tried the manual, as well as searching the forum, and came up with nothing.
Thanks all,
Zak -
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I feel your pain, but that’s a problem if you do a dissolve between clips as well, you can’t see the end frames. The only workflow is to do the fades/crossfades AFTER you get the motion right.
Not much help, probably – but it’s all I got.
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I put key frames close to the head and tail of clips. After adding transitions go to the motion tab and slide the keyframes out to the highlighted edges.
joe
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Joe,
That’s basically what I’ve ended up doing, but I wanted to suggest something to you.
Turning on clip keyframes in the timeline (two parallel lines button at bottom left of timeline) will show your keyframes in the timeline. You can’t change the values, but you can easily change the point in time for your keyframes. I control-click (right click doesn’t do it) the button and select show none, then go back and show just the set I want to avoid timeline clutter. This sped me up a lot in altering keyframe positions in time. Turn of snapping for more control.Thanks for the response,
Zak -
That does sound slick. Always looking for faster way to work.
joe
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