From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

Copy and paste keyframes - Media Composer Tutorial

From the course: Media Composer 8.7 Essential Training: 110

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Copy and paste keyframes

- [Voiceover] If you find yourself in a situation where you have keyframes on one clip as I do here, and you want them to be applied to another clip, it's relatively straightforward. I'm going to zoom in a little on the timeline here, and I'm going to just mark in-and-out marks around the keyframes I want to copy. These are hand keyframes, but I'm going to show you these and I'm also going to show you the volume keyframes. Now I've marked a region in space and time, I've got my audio three track turned on, and I've got my marks specifying the time. I'm going to just hover my cursor over one of these keyframes and click to select all of them. They're all selected because they're all between the in-and-out marks. Now, I'm going to press Command C, here on my quest. This would be Control C on Windows, and I can de-select, remove my marks, turn on the track I want to apply the keyframes to, in this case it's audio four, and then line up my playhead and press Command V or control V and, right away, I have the same keyframes applied. Again, if I switch over to my volume keyframes, remember you can't view both pan and volume keyframes on the same clip, so these are the volume keyframes I added earlier, I'm going to mark an in and an out, turn on my audio three. Just for what it's worth, I have the auto-patching function enabled in Media Composer, which is why the source track selection buttons are moving, but the source track selection buttons aren't important for this workflow. I'm going to select keyframe copy. I'm using the keyboard here, I could use the Edit menu, and I'm going to de-select, remove my marks, turn on audio four, and paste. If I scroll along the timeline a little over to the stereo music clip and position my playhead here, you'll notice, if I paste, I've got my audio five turned on, my audio four turned off, enable my volume keyframes on this clip and paste. If I switch over to the pan keyframes, let's just select these, select audio three, marking in, marking out, select, and copy, and remember, if I go to the audio mixer, you can see that on my audio three track, this is mono of course and, panning left and right and so on, it's pretty random of course, just to give you some keyframes to see, but still, so I'm selecting and copying and then going over to my stereo music. If I de-select, remove my marks, which pan do I add? Well, I'm going to switch to the pan left and then paste. Nothing. You'll notice that you can only choose one pan or the other when working with stereo media just to see the line appear on the timeline. And this is often called the rubber band, but I simply cannot paste, I'm pressing Command V here on Mac OS, this would be Control V on Windows, and it won't work. One last thing to mention about keyframes here on the timeline is, if I do select a number of these, I'm just going to mark in-and-out marks again and turn on my audio four, you can't move the keyframes in time without using a modifier key. If I drag these down, you see they can change level but I can't change the timing. To do that, I need to add the Alt key, and you can really begin to see the way Media Composer makes great use of that key. I've sometimes wondered if maybe we should have an Alt foot pedal to expand the functionality even further. So that's copying and pasting and moving, for that matter, keyframes between multiple clips.

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