Key frames and motion -- I give up. I'm just stupid.

I've edited "real" film and tons of video but for some reason I just can't seem to wrap my brain around this motion and keyframe issue. It's completely counter intuitive and I've tried everything I can from common sense to just plain WAG and I cannot seem to understand the process of how to make motion happen in a piece of video. Am I alone in this? All I want to do is to slowly zoom out and tilt from a still image -- not that complicated except for FCP makes it so. How do I do this? Why doesn't it make sense? What's the process? Where's the logic?
Here's what I want to do: I have a picture of something. I want to draw away from a zoomed in portion and tilt as I move back and away -- sort of like flying I guess. Where do I set my key frame(s)? I need a step by step hand-holding here because I just don't get it and I'm frustrated and have already pounded my keyboard once and I know it won't take much more before I have to go buy another one.
Sheesh!
Much appreciated.

Go to the first frame of the clip in question. Double click it to open in the viewer. Go to the motion tab. Position it as you want it to be.
Add a keyframe for position, one for scale and one for center. Open the triangle for the distort pane and add keyframes for each of the 4 coordinates and one for aspect ratio. Now play down the clip to the point where you want your move to end.
Adjust each of the parameters to taste. FCP will automatically add keyframes where a change has taken place. Render if necessary and take a look. Tweak to taste.
If you want it to hold at the head, do the above, move down the timeline to where you want it to move, add keyframes again to that point then go to the end and do as outlined above.

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I only was getting confused by you saying:
...you click on clip/control-c/select 'paste attributes'....
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Rienk
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