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Possible to move keyframe position while keeping level locked in?
Hi all,
I haven’t been able to find an answer to this online – most likely because it’s not possible, but thought I would give it a try. When I’m moving keyframes on clips in my timeline in Premiere (usually audio levels), it really frustrates me that it so easily moves up and down (changing the level) when I’m moving it horizontally (changing the timing). Way back when I used FCP7, I remember liking how it gave some resistance on moving up and down so that you could easily move it only horizontally when you wanted to. This is frustrating because, unless you’re really zoomed in, you can’t keep the level exact without looking at the number value before moving the keyframe and then making sure it’s at that when you’re done moving. Is there any way to change this, or some sort of workaround?
Also, while I’m here asking about Premiere’s audio workflow, I might as well ask if they’ve added any sort of function to being able to change the level of all the channels in an audio clip at once, even though they are on different tracks in the timeline. If I drag in an audio clip with 6 tracks (and I don’t want to modify audio channels to make that one track and then use channel volume, that seems to present its own difficulties), can I keyframe the levels of those clips all at once? I get that it’s useful to do them separately, of course, but it would also be so useful to do them all together in a rough cut stage when I just need to get the audio close to the levels I want and don’t need to edit all the tracks separately. I can change the gain of them all together, or move the levels directly up or down without changing keyframes altogether, but it’s not easy to add a fade up or down at some point in the clip to all the tracks in a grouped clip, and copying one of the track’s keyframes and pasting attributes to the others is a little clunky too. Thanks for all your help!
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Everything that you want Premiere to do is already available. Do a youtube search on keyboard shortcuts when working with Premiere audio keyframes.
Your second request can be solved by adding submixes to your timeline. Just submix all of the tracks that you want to group.
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Hi Greg,
I appreciate the reply. I will certainly look into submixing, I have never used it before. As far as the first part of my question, I’ve done further research as you suggested but still have not come up with a solution. You said that it’s possible, could you tell me how to do it or point to a link that explains it? Thanks again.
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You just haven’t stumbled onto the right info.
Select your pen tool, lasso the keyframes that you want to move, hold down shift while moving them and no volume will be adjusted.
Likewise if you want to adjust volume on multiple keyframes, select pen tool, lasso keyframes and then if you have “adjust volume up/down +/-1 or +/-3 ” mapped to your keyboard you can move volume up and down.
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Great, thanks Greg.
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