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Preparing the timeline for keyframing

Preparing the timeline for keyframing - Media Composer Tutorial

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Preparing the timeline for keyframing

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- [Instructor] To work with key frames in the timeline window, there are two things that you need to do. The first is you need to make sure that this button is on. This is the Audio Key Frame Mode button. With this off you can't add key frames in the timeline window, you also can't modify existing key frames. That's quite useful to know because when you're in the middle of working on a project, it's quite easy to accidentally click on an existing key frame and move it when you're not intending to. So turning this mode off, is a kind of defense mechanism against those kinds of errors. But again, you'll lead it on if you're going to add and modify key frames in the timeline window. The second thing you need to do is display key frames. And you can do this by clicking on this expanded track controls area, click on the menu right in the middle, and choose volume. Right now I've got Clip Gain and Pan displayed which…

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