Final Cut Express Animating clips with Motion.

I am trying to set up the scale and positon of a clip with motion, and then getting this to change to new positon and scale over a fixed duration. I can find no way of doing this unless I am missing something very obvious.

Thanks Mark. I knew I was missing something simple.
Graham

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