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keyframing in fcp all advice welcome
In After Effects you can make a special keyframe that holds until you make another keyframe to change something. You can also copy and paste keyframes.
In FCP I don’t see any way to do either of these things and I’ve looked.
So if I want a particular layer to change position at let’s say, 45 seconds, then hold until one minute, then change, I can’t grab the little keyframes of my 45 second setting and copy and paste them to the last frame before my one minute setting. My little animation will start moving toward the one minute position right after the 45 second mark unless I go to that last frame before the minute and copy those 45 second settings–which I failed to write down–into the transformation. Also ‘reset parameters’ doesn’t work very well. I’d hope it would delete all keyframes but it doesn’t. I have to go back and delete them one by one.
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“In After Effects you can make a special keyframe that holds until you make another keyframe to change something. You can also copy and paste keyframes.”
You create a keyframe in AE or anything else, nothing changes until you make another keyframe down that timeline, very simple, all apps do this. Copy/Paste keyframes is in all apps, so go do a tutorial or read the manual and learn how to do it.
If you compare an NLE to a compositing and FX app, apples to onion, buddy, stop.
“Reset Parameters” does just that, 100% of the time, no bugs.
Seriously, go do a tutorial, it all works just fine, I do it every day, no issues.
Addressing your specific problem, you’re a tad confusing, can you be more clear about what you’re trying to do? Copy/Paste keyframes? FCPX’s copy and Paste Attributes does that really well. So where the issue?
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I did a search for “MODIFYING” keyframes in fcpx and found a lovely tutorial on youtube. So glad I can control keyframes and copy and paste them. When I did a search for USING keyframes I got a lot of tutorials that were too basic. So I assumed, wrongly, that there was no way. I guess reset parameters works in transform but you have to hit every option. But now that I can select keyframes easily in the timeline by opening the animation thingy I can delete a bunch (and also see which keyframes refer to which functions!) Ben, I really hate the magnetic timeline. It drives me nuts. I did study some tutorials, but it didn’t help. So my method is to AVOID the main timeline. There’s nothing in it. I use the tilde and the position thing to move things that get stuck there out. I’m sure there’s something good about it, but I’m old and too accustomed to AE and FCP7 to deal with it.
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I’m in my 60s and learn new stuff all the time, that’s not an excuse. If you hate magnetic timeline, stop using FCPX. The more you try to force it to be like tracks, the more frustrated and limited you’ll be. Learn it, use it, it’ll cut your editing time in half. If you are unwilling to do that, please, for your own sanity, stop using FCPX.
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Ben, I’m 82 and I notice there are crowds of people like me who just put a slug in the damned magnetic timeline. I keep trying to use it and giving up. Just checked this out. https://youtu.be/wxOoAClvgeU
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