Effect Controls incredibly frustrating

Hi folks. I'm trying to do some very simple Ken Burns type things in Premiere. I want to add simple beziers on the Velocity and such but I find myself wanting to throw a brick at my computer. For one, the handles are incredibly tiny and very difficult to use. you move them slightly and the whole curve screws up. Then I zoom out and my keyframes dissappear under the menu its self and I can't get them back. I can't move the timeline over to see the keyframe. Am I missing something? fully zoomed and they're hidden.
See attached image? Where's my keyframe? It's there. It was there a second ago. Now it's under scroller and I can't reach it. ARG.

Click on the panel menu (top right corner) and uncheck Pin to Clip.
That will let you zoom in and out.
If you want a realy big view.
Hover the mouse over the Effect Controls and hit the tilde (grave) key.

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Hi, Merry Christmas;
I have a problem using keys with the opacity effect in the effects control panel; the following pictures should I think make my problem clearer to understand:
The image above shows that the opacity control of the correction gopro clip is at 100% which unless I've drunk too much champagne, is in full view on the screen!
I want to make a transition effect showing the raft appearing in the window of the following picture which is an Indian Granary above the Colorado river.
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I just learned about keyframes and gradual transistion of effects and i like that a lot.
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Generate text from the effect controls

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Twirl down the Scale property to expose the graph editor. Change the
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Hi i am currently editing clips in premiere pro cc but everytime i go to change the speed not the duration of a clip it will not let me select it - also when i go to effect controls it will not let me select time mapping? please help

Hi i am currently editing clips in premiere pro cc but everytime i go to change the speed not the duration of a clip it will not let me select it - also when i go to effect controls it will not let me select time mapping? please help

savannahp
What version of Premiere Elements and on what computer operating system?
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Red Noir. Does any of the following apply to any of what is happening to you.
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too bad, hope the fix this on next version
where you want to have detail control is exactly the values that you cant do micro adjustments.
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I follow those instructions to the best of my ability, and nothing appears in the Effect Controls Panel. The previous three paragraphs are labelled as CS5.5 and earlier. I'm wondering if this paragraph should also have been labelled as CS5.5 and earlier.
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