[Erin Magnet]

I am also having trouble figuring out how to apply the transition I like, for the duration I want, across multiple edits. I was assuming I could drag it from the Effect Editor whereever I wanted it, as you can in Final Cut

[Erin Magnet]

So can I make my own preset for that?

[Erin Magnet]

You might not need to use a camera; you can go into your graph editor, highlight the keyframes, go to your keyframe assistant (the little diamond icon) and set them for exponential scale. That way you will get a natural looking zooom in, as if it were camera movement.

That being said, this would be the difficulty with copying your keyframes and converting them to camera movements. I sometimes combine scaling up or down of footage items with camera movements to the right or left to achieve the result I am looking for, although I learned about a little button called “collapse transformation” which would allow me to do all this work with just the camera.

If that doesn’t solve your problem, try moving the keyframes to a null object, and using it as an intermediary for parenting the camera properties to your null object.

[Erin Magnet]

Hi I have a similar question, so just to be clear:

1) The best way to do your compositing/tracking/replacing of edited clips is to get the cut of the scene you need to compoz in separate clips, exported out of Final Cut or Premiere, probably with timecode? Track each shot separately, compoz, and render in ProRes or format of choice, then send back to the editor and replace, replace, replace?

2) My current workflow takes a cut sequence out of Final Cut, then the Red footage gets rendered out of Premiere to After Effects as one sequence, I do my compositing over an entire scene making new layers and trackers for each shot, then export as ProRes HQ for Final Cut. I find this to be doable when Mocha comes into the mix, but requires extra steps and it is easy to make a mistake. What is easier, then? Keeping track of different elements being compoz’d across multiple compositions, or moving my masks from shot to shot, changing my key/spill settings, and checking my tracks?