Pan/Crop Key Frame Question

smurphco wrote on 3/10/2005, 12:54 PM
Hi,

Three related questions:

1. Does anyone know of a way to keep a key frame that is on the last frame of a clip locked to the last frame, even if the clip is elongated?

This is how it works with the first keyfame (on the first frame of the clilp) -- if you lengthen or shorten the clip, the first keyframe stays with the first frame, but not so with the last key frame.
This has become problematic for me while finessing a high-count sills project with lots of pan/crop moves. To go through each shot resetting the last key frame becomes extremely click intensive on such a large project.

2. If there is no way to keep the last key frame relative to the last frame of the clip (again, like the behavior of the first key frame), is it possible to script (or is there a script available) to move he last-most keyframe to the last frame of the clip?

3. If there is no way to accomplish either of the above, is there a way to at least have the pan/crop window automatically switch to the currently selected clip? That way I can click through the clips reasonably quckly to confirm and/or adjust the last key frame

Thanks so much for any help offered!

Cheers,

Steve


Comments

jaegersing wrote on 3/10/2005, 9:36 PM
Hi Steve.

1. If you are working with stills, try ctrl-dragging the clip edge to change the duration. The last keyframe should stay at the end of the clip.

2. Can't offer any help on scripts, but I'm sure some kind soul will step in and offer to sell you something that will do the job. :)

3. If you keep the pan/crop window open, then clicking on the pan/crop icon on any clip should bring that clip into the pan/crop window. Provided your zoom level in the project allows you to see the pan/crop icon at the edge of each clip event, it should be very fast to look at each clip, one click per clip will do it.

Richard Hunter
smurphco wrote on 3/11/2005, 11:01 AM
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the info! Ctl-drag works well!
Cheers,
Steve