Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 - Manual (Page 415)

409 USING ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS4
Animation
Last updated 11/6/2011
Copy and paste keyframes in the Effect Controls panel
When you paste keyframes into another clip, they appear in the corresponding property in the target clip’s effect in the
Effect Controls panel. The earliest keyframe appears at the current time, and the other keyframes follow in relative
order. If the target clip is shorter than the source clip, keyframes that occur after the target clip’s Out point are pasted
to the clip but don’t appear unless you disable the Pin To Clip option. The keyframes remain selected after pasting, so
you can immediately move them in the target clip.
1 In the Effect Controls panel, click the triangle to expand the effect to reveal its controls and keyframes.
2 Select one or more keyframes.
3 Choose Edit > Copy.
4 Do one of the following:
• Move the current-time indicator to where you want the first keyframe to appear and choose Edit > Paste.
• Select another clip, expand the appropriate property in the Effect Controls panel, move the current-time indicator
to where you want the first keyframe to appear, and choose Edit > Paste.
You can also copy a keyframe by dragging. In the Timeline of the Effect Controls panel, hold down the Alt key
(Windows) or Option key (Mac OS) and drag a keyframe to a new location.
Copy and paste keyframes in a Timeline panel
When you paste keyframes into a Timeline panel, the earliest keyframe appears at the current time and the other
keyframes follow in relative order. The keyframes remain selected after pasting, so you can fine-tune their location.
You can paste keyframes only to a clip or track that displays the same property as the copied keyframes. Also, Premiere
Pro can paste keyframes at the current-time indicator on only one clip or track at a time. Because the current-time
indicator can span multiple video and audio tracks, Premiere Pro uses criteria in the following order to determine
where to paste the keyframes:
• If the current-time indicator is positioned within a selected clip, keyframes are pasted in that clip.
• If audio keyframes are cut or copied, Premiere Pro pastes in the first track where it finds a corresponding effect
property, looking first at a sequence’s audio tracks, then its submix tracks, and then the master track.
• If none of the above conditions produces a target video or audio track that matches both the effects property and
the scope (clip or track) of the cut or copied keyframes, the Paste command is unavailable. For example, if you copy
audio track keyframes but the targeted audio track displays clip keyframes, the keyframes can’t be pasted.
1 In a Timeline panel, choose from a clip or track’s effect menu to display the property containing the keyframes you
want to copy.
2 Select one or more keyframes.
3 Choose Edit > Copy.
4 In the timeline for the sequence containing the destination clip or track, do one of the following:
• Select the clip where you want to paste the keyframes.
• Target the video or audio track where you want the copied keyframes to appear.
5 Make sure that the clip or track displays the same property as the keyframes you copied; otherwise, the Paste
command is unavailable. If the property is not available on the clip or track’s effect properties menu, you must apply
the same effect that was applied to the clip or track from which the keyframes were copied.
6 Move the current-time indicator to the point in time where you want the keyframes to appear.
7 Choose Edit > Paste.