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Working with Standard Keyframes
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Working with Standard Keyframes
You can manipulate standard keyframes in the following ways:
• You can add standard keyframes at any point in the effect’s position bar.
• You can delete any standard keyframe that you create, but you cannot delete the starting and
ending keyframes your Avid editing application creates.
• You can select one or more standard keyframes.
A keyframe indicator changes to pink when selected. For a quick way to jump to the next or
previous keyframe indicator, use the Fast Forward and Rewind buttons on the Effect Preview
Monitor toolbar.
• You can move a standard keyframe that you create to another position in the position bar
below the Effect Preview monitor. You cannot move the starting and ending keyframes.
• You can adjust most effect parameters to a different value for each keyframe, allowing you
to animate an attribute such as the position of the effect.
Some parameter categories, however, are not keyframeable, and you can only adjust these
parameters globally for the entire effect. The reference topics for each parameter in “Effects
Parameter Reference” on page 610 indicate when a parameter is not keyframeable.
• You can copy and paste parameters from one standard keyframe and apply them to another
standard keyframe. You can also copy keyframe parameters from one effect to another
effect.
To create a standard keyframe:
1. Click in the position bar below the Effect Preview monitor at the point in the effect where
you want to add the keyframe.
The position indicator moves to that frame.
2. Do one of the following to add a keyframe:
t In the Effect Preview Monitor toolbar, click the Add Keyframe button.
t Manually adjust a parameter in the Effect Preview monitor (segment effects only).
For example, when you click a handle on an effect outline and drag to resize or
reposition it, your Avid editing application automatically creates a new keyframe.