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Keyframe during dissolve question
I have a question about key framing:
Let’s imagine a “Ken Burns” animation with two still photos. The first photo fades in, and we start panning to the right for a few seconds, at which point we cross dissolve to another photo that continues the movement to the right for a few seconds, stops, then fades out.
At the cross dissolve between the two photos, to keep movement continuous, we want to keep panning until the end of the dissolve, and we want to start moving the next photo already at the beginning of the cross dissolve. I can make this work when I put it together by key framing the start and end of the pan, applying the dissolve, and then moving the keyframes to the outer points of the clip (to include animation while dissolving).
But as soon as I want to change something afterwards, things get difficult. When I select the clip, I can move through the crossdissolve to get to the keyframe I want to adjust, but then I can’t see what I am doing because I am at the very beginning (or end) of a dissolve where the part which I am adjusting is not (yet) visible.
I have to move the cut out of the way, or move the keyframe so that I can see what I am doing, and then move it back again.
I find this hard to explain, hope it makes sense. The problem is to adjust something that has just been faded to black. Do you understand what I mean?
Is there a better/easier/quicker way to do this?
Thanks!
Carl.
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4 Replies
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Uncheck Pin to Clip in the wing menu of the Source Monitor. That will give you room to adjust the keyframes in the Source Monitor.
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Dear Ann,
Thanks for this tip, it is much easier to get to keyframes this way. However my biggest problem is not being able to see what I am doing. Let’s go back to my example with the two photos with Ken Burns effect, and the cross dissolve between them. Let’s say I want to change the framing of the beginning of the second photo. I click the clip, it opens in the source monitor effect controls tab, and I move the play cursor to the keyframe to the left of the clip. By doing so, I move past the dissolve, and in the program monitor I only see the previous photo, not the one that I want to alter. I can change the values, but I don’t see what I am doing, until I play past the dissolve. I can get it right in a few attempts by guessing how much to change parameters, but that’s not very efficient.
Do you see my problem? Is it solvable?
Carl.
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You could set the keyframes just infront of the dissolve, see how that looks. then move them into the dissolve or
move the clip a track higher and extend it to the length with the handles, set keyframes, see how that looks, drop it back inline and add the cross dissolve.———————————————–
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[Ann Bens] “You could set the keyframes just infront of the dissolve, see how that looks. then move them into the dissolve”
This seems indeed the best way for me to do what I wanted.
Thanks Ann!
Carl.
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