how to HOLD a keyframe in your timeline? very simple question but can’t find it in FCP X!

[Bret Williams]

[Jeremy Garchow] “FCPX does have a “lock point” function, but it doesn’t work like Ae hold keyframes.”

Lock keyframe is just that. It locks it so it can’t be deleted or adjusted. It’s not like a corner point.

[Patrice Freymond]

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I would think keyframing in X should be held at least to the standard of Avid or Premiere, don’t you?

No I don’t. I think it should be superior to them, specially to Avid’s.

As for the argument that Motion is not included, it never was.
Final Cut Studio was a bundle of softwares. The bundle is gone and you can now buy them individually (save for DVDSP and Color that are EOL’d). To me this is just a way of selling software, nothing else.

As for roundtripping, I am most impatient to see it come back and I think it will (but I am not reading tea leaves…)

And I stick to the fact that I would not compare an editing software with a compositing software, even though some functions in both sometimes blur the boundaries.

[Bret Williams]

Semantics? I mean, it WAS included with final cut studio. You had no choice but to have it in your arsenal. And my last upgrade to FCS 3 was $299. Now, to get a subset of those functions, I had to pay $399 to get compressor, FCP X, and motion.

My point being that for anyone owning studio, you could make the argument that if they wanted advanced key framing then they needed to roundtrip to moiton. That is not a valid argument for X. It requires and additional purchase and there’s no roundtripping. The latter being the even more important argument of course.