Copying keyframes in motion parameters

Sometimes it might be necessary that you need the same values from one keyframe for a new one. Is it possible to copy keyframes (eg scale, rotation, center, opacity etc) to new keyframes?
For example: Made a keyframe in the timeline for CENTER (-45,73 -36,69). Then 5 keyframes further I need a CENTER-keyframe with the same value. How can I copy it?
I hope you'll understand. My English is not too good. Thanks in advance.
Peter
Message was edited by: peter.roek

Control-K sets keyframes in every category of Scale, Crop, Distort. It's much faster than having to click the mouse button when you have more than just one parameter. But if you are just adjusting the Center value then there's not much time savings.
I can't tell you what workflow will work best for you, but if I had to set multiple keyframes, and a number of them had the same parameters then I would quickly set all of them with the same parameters. After which I would go back and adjust the ones that varied, but that's just me.
If you wanted to copy keyframes from one clip to another clip you could do so by copying the clip and then pasting attributes [basic motion]. I do not know of a way to copy a keyframe from one portion of a clip and pasting it into the same clip

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