Position Keyframes- How to change Bezier to Linear?

[James Woodman]

Mark — I’m a year late, but wanted to say thanks for this workaround.

I’ve never experienced the strange “wandering” behaviour as badly as I did yesterday — something seems to have changed. But fortunately your fix worked perfectly.

I’m amazed that this is still a problem in FCPX 10.0.8.

James

[Dan Brearley]

And I’m a year later still. That all sounds very interesting, I think I have a more elementary question. I simply want to draw a straight keyframe sloping straight down from the start to the end of a clip and I can only get it to curve down. How can I straighten the curve!?

Many thanks,

Dan

[Nayeli Garci-crespo]

I’m having this same problem with v 10.1.4. I am trying to get video to move from position A to position B, stay at position B for a few seconds, and then go back to position A. I have two identical keyframes at either end of the part I want the video to be completely still, but I have the weird drift others have noticed. The adding and deleting keyframes has reduced it, but I I can still see the numbers creeping up and back down. Anyone else experiencing this with this workaround? If I was trying to do precise effects work this would be entirely unacceptable.

It seems pretty ridiculous that the software does this between two identical keyframes! (Yes, both set to linear as well.)

Nayeli

[Don Smith]

Your keyframes default to Smooth and that’s why the position drifts.

In the latest version of FCPX the easiest way to fix that is to change the keyframes to Linear but do it in the timeline.

Select the clip. Control-V to make settings pop up over the clip. In the Transform section click the drop-down triangle next to the word ‘Transform’ and select Position.

The keyframe dots you’re looking at are now only Position keyframes.

Right-click on each keyframe and change it to Linear.

For me, I wish the default was Linear. I’ve never used Smooth. Ever. It’s always always a set and then fix process. For an NLE to otherwise be the fastest among NLE’s this is one characteristic that flows in the opposite direction.

Don Smith – NewsVideo.com

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