Is there a simpler way to keyframe several separate adjustments?

[Tim Wilde]

Andy,

Thank you again for your help. Spot on.

Some observations for your tutorial:

1. The layers related to the keyframes you want to repeat must be selected in the Layers panel and visible in the Animated view of keyframe editor before selecting and copying the keyframes as a group.
2. As soon as you’ve copied the keyframes to the clipboard move the playhead to the destination where they are to be repeated and Paste.
3. It helps to think of the keyframes to be copied as a “group”, with a start point having a keyframe (yellow diamond with red center) for every layer and an end point also having a keyframe for every layer.
4. When “designing” a group to be copied there’s usually additional keyframing needed, because you must add keyframes to lock in the state of every layer’s adjustments before and after the group of effects. This is hard to explain but it’ll be obvious when you get into it.
5. Saving this group as a Curve Set, which I’ve tried several times for different groups of effects, serves only as a reference for which layers are involved, because you still must manually select all the relevant layers before copying the keyframe group to the clipboard.
6. While having a technique for repeating groups of effects is better than recreating them “manually”, this still feels like a kluge. As a Motion noob I may be showing my ignorance in the following suggestion (because it might already exist!), but here goes: it would be better if, after creating a group of effects like this, you could save it. THEN, when you want to reuse it later in the timeline you could simply open the defined group and all relevant layers would be selected, and the keyframes would be placed on the clipboard, ready for pasting at the playhead. Even better, the length of the group in frames would be visible in the group name so if you want the group effect to end at a specific timecode the playhead’s placement is easily calculated.

I suspect you’re well ahead of me but I wanted to reciprocate in whatever way I can.

Thank you again and good luck with the tutorial.