Wednesday, July 6, 2011

[Avid-L2] Re: Copying a keyframe from one effect to another?

 

It just worked fine for me. Make sure you have the object selected when you copy the keyframe, and make sure you have the object selected in the new effect when you paste.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Cook <jeff@...> wrote:
>
> I dunno about MC 5.5, but this used to work if you stayed in Effects Mode while opening the second effect. It may not have been necessary to transfer keyframe parameters from one effect to another, but somehow I recall it working differently in some cases.
>
> I'd be interested to know if that fixes it. Thanks.
>
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> On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:07 AM, johnrobmoore wrote:
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> > It works within an effect fine. I'm trying to copy the last keyframe of a blur in one paint effect to the first keyframe of a new paint effect blur. I thought I'd done this successfully in the past but it didn't want to work today.
> >
> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm not sure what you are doing, but copying and pasting among keyframes in paint effect works for me.
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That's what I thought but it didn't seem to want to cooperate today. I really think it's worked for me before. Perhaps paint effect is an odd beast but I sure thought I did it in the past.
> >>>
> >>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Dennis Degan <DennyD1@> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:59 PM, John Moore wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I seem to recall being able to copy a keyframe from one effect to
> >>>> another before but I can't seem to get it to work today. I know I can
> >>>> copy a keyframe to another keyframe within an effect but I sure
> >>>> thought in the past I could copy a keyframe from one effect to another
> >>>> when it's the same type of effect. Specifically I want to extend a
> >>>> paint effect blur but I don't want to trim it out shifting the
> >>>> existing keyframes. I add a second paint effect next to the original
> >>>> and I want to copy the shape and position of the last keyframe of the
> >>>> first effect to the first keyframe of the added effect there by making
> >>>> it a seamless extention. So far I've had to resort to copying the
> >>>> first effect to the second effect and then copying the last keyframe
> >>>> to the first and moving on from there. As I type this I recall the
> >>>> addition of elastic vs inelastic keyframes at some point. Was the
> >>>> elastic/ inelastic option on SNDX mac ver 4.0.5? I'll search the help
> >>>> files.
> >>>>
> >>>> I wonder:
> >>>>
> >>>> Doesn't Select Keyframe-"Copy/Paste" (Command C/Command V) work for
> >>>> this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> >>>> NBC Today Show, New York
> >>>>
> >>>
>

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