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Slip the clip, but keep the audio keyframes in place, how?
I have a clip in my timeline with some keyframes ramping the audio up and then back down. I want to perform a slip trim, and change the first frame of the clip.
However, I want the keyframes to stay put, so that as the media in the clip slips, the keyframes don’t roll down the timeline with the footage.
In FCP7 I would select my clip and hit cmd-c for copy. I would then hit the S key once for the slip tool. I then performed the slip until I had my desired frame at the front of the clip. Then I’d select the clip and do a paste attributes on it, and just paste just the levels back onto the clip, and they would show up where they should.
Ironically, when I perform the slip trim in FCPX, the keyframes stay where they are for a second, then they suddenly slide down to follow the frame of the clip. I’d like to be able to stop them before they move with the clip.
Thx
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Didn´t know that worked in FCP7.
You probably will have to keyframe a volume-effect in the inspector and then copy – paste that. Don´t think “OPTION-COMMAND-V” pastes audiokeyframes from the timeline.
It tried it, it doesn´t work in the built in volume control of the clip. When you paste the keyframs to a copy of the clip, they are applied at the same time codes….so your slip moves them exactly where they are in the original clip.
I hope someone else can help you out.
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It seems a logical tossup if the audio keyframes should move or not when you slip a clip. They “should” move, if the level change is associated with a particular requirement within the clip (like a loud sound that has to be lowered). On the other hand, if you are, let’s say, lowering the level because of a relationship with another track, the audio levels “should” not move. Perhaps there should be a switch, like option-slip to keep keyframes put.
I agree that it is a “bug” or a design flaw that the copy/paste effect doesn’t copy/paste the keyframes (we did have that capability in FCP 7, as well as choosing which effect to paste…). Another suggestion to Apple.
Eli
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