[Olivier Prudhomme]

I haven’t a chance yet to apply Simon’s advice but so far I’ve never been able to ad a keyframe easily.
Example:
I put a glow effect on a shot
No glow for the first 2 sec
then Glow comes in and I set the value let’s say “100”
then after 4 sec i want the Glow value to jump to 200.

And I am not able to do it…
The value doesn’t stay at 100 to jump to 200
It increases from 100 to 200 over the period of time that is between the 2 keyframes.

I like Motion so I am hoping I could easily ad a keyframe, set a value for the effect, then move on to another point, etc… Then I could adjust the values by going back to the keyframe…

[Olivier Prudhomme]

Hey Mark, I started a thread about keyframing and then saw this reply where you mention keyframing.
You wrote “Keyframes are good if you want the spinning to start and/or stop” which is exactly what I am trying to do.
How would you do that?
Wanna look at my thread and the answers (Simon offered a solution.)
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/170/871289#871292

[Olivier Prudhomme]

I can’t try today but i”ll do on Monday.
If it works it is definitelly helpful but then it means Motion isn’t good at managing keyframing.
But Motion is about “behaviors” anyway.
Thanks Simon

[Olivier Prudhomme]

I agree.
This is what we do in FCP for example. But Motion doesn’t let you do that since you have to “record” the animation path. You can’t stop a frame before and ad a keyframe….