How to Smooth Out a Motion?

My video is scaled down to 50%. It moves in from outside the edge of the right frame to a little past the half way point, and then fills the screen. But at the point where it starts to enlarge, the video always jerks. I tried ease in, ease out, linear, bezier, auto bezier, continuous bezier, I tried applying those settings to motion, scale, motion and scale, temporal, spacial. I just can't get it to change smoothly from moving to the left to coming at the camera.

After you have done your Keyframing (do try Ann's suggestion, as it's pretty easy to accidentally add a "phantom" Keyframe), have you been Rendering (hitting Enter) your animation Clip? If not, move the WAB (Work Area Bar) to that area, and hit Enter. Test.
Good luck,
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http://vimeo.com/18967093
I like anything that is simplicity with ease. Always like things simple with specific message come across at all once.
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I didn't say I have Motion 4, I have Motion 5. I don't really think anything that made in Motion 4 into Motion 5 are doable, attainable and workable nor editable. I prefer to focus on Motion 5. I get this impression that any legacy files edited in Final Cut Pro Studio, for example, won't work in Final Cut Pro X. Therefore, I assume that it applies the same issue with any legacy Motion 4 files into Motion 5. Or am I misaken just about Motion 4 vs Motion 5. Of course GUI interface between Motion 4 and 5, it is totally different engine. Totally different between Final Cut Pro X vs legacy Final Cut Pro Studio.
As for Google, I did some research, and wasn't sure where to start with. Because there isn't much of anything related to Motion 5. All I see mostly related to Adobe Effects and some with Apple Motion 4, so forth. I also own Adobe Creative Suite CS5.5 Master Collection (upgraded to Master Collection from CS5 Design Premium as I own Design Premium for years). I used to do some creative stuff with Adobe Flash (at the time, it was formerly Macromedia long before Adobe acquired formerly Macromedia).
-http://www.applemotion.net/
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As for Mark Spencer and Apple Motion website, I see that was included in Apple resource, I believe. The problem is that all of his educational trainings and materials are not closed captioned. I don't see much of Motion 5-related topics. I suspect that he would develop some new educational trianing related to Motion 5 and Final Cut Pro X, and some cases with Adobe Premiere CS5.5 and After Effects CS5.5.
As for term of expermiments, I love to do lot of experiments with my photography stuff. This also includes experiments with all kinds of fine arts paper outputs and all. So, I am not afarid to experiement new stuff with Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5.
In closing, you mentioned understanding the fundamentals is especially very true. Thank you for your help and assistance. I would love to have others' perspective and insights.
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Brian
Typo error fixed... ge => get

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