Keyframes
Select a zoom, a move or a crop and press K to add a keyframe at the playhead. Drag a keyframe to retime it, and click it to choose how it arrives.
Mac appChrome
Where to find it
- Video editor
- Pro
- Timeline
- A zoom, then K
- 1Select a block on the timeline, such as a zoom.
- 2Move the playhead and press K.A diamond appears on the block. Change the zoom or framing, and that pose is held at this keyframe.
- 3Add more keyframes for each pose you want.
- Drag a diamond to retime it. With it selected, ← and → nudge it a frame.
- Click a diamond to choose how the move arrives at it.
- Press ⌫ to delete the selected keyframe.
Arrive by
- Linear
- One constant speed the whole way.
- Settle
- Moves off briskly and settles in. The default.
- Ease in
- Creeps away from the last pose and is still gaining speed as it lands.
- Ease out
- Leaves at speed and slows into place.
- In-out
- Slow at both ends, quickest in the middle.
- Hold
- No movement. The last pose holds, then cuts to this one.
- K
- Add a keyframe at the playhead
Read next
Edit a zoomClick a zoom on the timeline to open it. Set its level, aim it at the pointer or a fixed point, change its curve, and drag its ends to retime it.Add a camera moveMoves are ready-made camera motions, like Focus in, Depth rise or Whip pan, that you drop on the timeline. Each has a strength, a speed and finer settings.
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