Adjusting speed of a motion keyframe

When I created a motion keyframe path, the clip just zips of the screen and I cannot figure out how to adjust the speed.
Thanks for any tips!
Best Regards,
Eric

Vid man wrote:
When I created a motion keyframe path, the clip just zips of the screen and I cannot figure out how to adjust the speed.
speed = distance x time +hey, that's 5th grade physics!+
example:
you have keyframe#1 on the very left of viewer
keyframe#2 on very right of viewer...
if #2 is set just 4 frames later than #1 => speedy!
if #2 is set 120 frames later than #1 => a gentle, smooth move..
check, where _in timeline_ your KFs are set..

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I'm struggling with a couple of issues with motion keyframes in FCE (there is no documentation on this feature in the FCE manual).
1) In a number of still images, I simply want one keyframe at the beginning of the clip, and one at the end. It seems that no matter what order I create keyframes in, I always seem to have to redo the first keyframe. That is, I create the first keyframe (the diagonal cross hairs turn green), then I create the second keyframe, adjust parameters, etc. When I return to the first keyframe in the clip, it's gone, and I have to recreate it. Generally it seems to "stick" after the second attempt.
Can someone enlighten me as to what I might be doing wrong here?
2) A couple of times I've wanted to razor the clip in the middle, and then dissolve it into itself at a different zoom. Unfortunately, after dividing the clip, I have a devil of a time finding the keyframes. I think what might be happening is that each clip half ends up with unreachable keyframes--I know this happens with audio level and opacity keyframes, so it makes sense that it would happen with motion--but since you can't "see" the keyframes on the timeline, it's difficult to know what's going on. Anyway, I've decided it's just a bad idea to do this--better to start with a clean clip and apply the motion keyframes from scratch. Still, if anyone has any suggestions on how to better manage (and visualize) keyframes, I would appreciate hearing them.
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I often find that the first keyframe won't stick...not always, but a fair percentage of the time. I just accepted it as a quirk of the program.
Also sometimes if I play around in the middle of a clip with zoom or motion, then move to where I'd like to actually like to insert that motion keyframe I find that FCE kinda insert one for me back where I was playing around.
So i've stopped....
..playing around, that is...
...i mean, in the middle of the clip. I am more careful now to think about where i am goind to want my keyframe, then go there, then muck about with the settings, THEN insert a keyframe there...
.....THEN after I do the second keyframe, go back and redo that first keyframe that has inexplicably gone on vacation.
I wonder if the keyboard shortcut would work better than the mouse click/button push? Like, would it be more likely to register? Then again, I DO always make sure that my crosshairs register a hit (go green) so that should be a good enough confirmation that the mouse click/buttonpush worked...

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Sorry for the lame subject title, but I'm not sure I know how to be more descriptive, or search for previously posted info about this.
I have 98 still images on a timeline to which I want to apply a "zoom in" motion effect, and add a 2 sec dissolve transition between each. Is there a way to apply the "zoom in" effect without the dissolve in between, and then, when I add the dissolve, have the motion effect stretch out to affect the new clip duration? As everyone here will know, the transition adds time on to both ends of the clip with the previously applied motion keyframes staying put. Obviously, the effect I get is a dissolve happens, the clip then zooms up, stops, and then the next dissolve occurs.
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But in your method Alex, the transitions are adding frames at the beginnings of clips which means the new clip will dissolve completely in before moving. I'm sure that's not what the OP is looking for.
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Yes, FCE4 handles keyframing the same way as FCP6. You can do it in the motion tab of the viewer or by clicking the keyframe button in the canvas to add a universal keyframe to all motion parameters. You can do the scaling, cropping, etc. in the motion tab or in the canvas if it is in Image+Wireframe mode.
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is there an easy way just to move that old keyframe from it's position to the new end point? i think it would be easy if it was an opacity keyframe and this was the timline - but i don't think motion keyframes show up in the timeline?
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