Final Cut Pro tip: Moving multiple keyframes
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case a multi-megabyte video is worth a couple of hundred words:
You can use the motion bar and the filter bar in Clip Keyframes to move all the keyframes in a clip at the same time. You can also move all the audio level keyframes in a clip at the same time using the slip tool on the graph in the viewer.
That doesn’t quite make sense, so take a look at the video in HD mode, which means following the link to the HD video on the Vimeo site. Click the Vimeo logo in the controller bar to go to the page on the site with the HD version. Click the four-arrow icon on the right of the controller bar to scale the video up to 720p.
As a shortcut, you can choose which elements appear in Clip Keyframes mode by control- (or right-) clicking the Toggle Clip Keyframes button in the bottom-left of the Timeline window.
10 October, 2008 at 7:38 am
Hey Alex,
great little tutorial — I just found your blog — I love this kind of tip because it’s never in the manual. Did you stumble across it just by using?
Best regards,
LMN
10 October, 2008 at 9:12 am
I guessed that it was possible to do these things. I know that the selection tool only moves one keyframe at a time when used in keyframe graphs, so I tried using the selection tool in different places to see what happened. I also tried different tools on keyframe graphs. This is what I came up with.
22 October, 2008 at 11:33 am
héllo, thanks for your tips! But when i am in the selection tool, i do everything you do on the keyframes (placing cursor between two keyframes…) but when i drag along the bar, nothings append !!!!! Do you use a key while dragging???? ctrl, cmd or esle????
please help, this tip is the more interresting i’ve ever find for FCP !!!
22 October, 2008 at 3:54 pm
You don’t need to use a modifier key. If you right-click the Vimeo movie and play the movie in Vimeo, you’ll see me drag the keyframes in the filters bar, the motion bar and the audio tab. I didn’t use any modifier keys.
27 October, 2008 at 6:51 pm
I can’t seem to get this to work with volume keyframes, any suggestions?
24 December, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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14 April, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I had the same issue. The keyframes did not move.
I had the correct curser but nothing happened. I do not have Studio 2.