Keyframing - making it act like "ease both"

I've always been stumped by the following issue, and once again I'm trying to understand how to achieve specific fluid movements with keyframes. I've gotten into a project where simple sweeps or dollies aren't cutting it.
The thing I love about behaviors is how I can select "ease both" to do some very pretty movements. I can NEVER get this to work with keyframing.
So, say I want to move a camera. Maybe change it's rotation a little too.
I can get the keyframes in the timeline, no prob. Usually it's set to linear or some interpolation I don't want. I want to have the first set of keyframes ease into the movement, and I want the last set of keyframes to ease out right? Or do I want to ease OUT of the first keyframe and ease IN to the final keyframe. I think the terminology is tricky here.
"continuous" interpolation seems to achieve what I want, but as soon as I add keyframes later in the timeline it extrapolates movement that I simply dont.
Can someone help me understand how I keyframe to get the same behavior as "ease both?"

Try this. Apply continuous interpolation to your keyframes. Open the keyframe editor. Find the two sets of keyframes that have the same value (ie: your pause).
Lasso the 2nd set and right-click a keyframe choosing Linear from the interpolation menu. This will change that keyframe set to linear as well as any keyframes after. Select all keyframes after, right-click and choose: continuous.
Now you'll have continous keyframes up to the pause. It'll then change to linear for the pause, and go back to continuous after.
If you examine the 1st set going into the pause, you'll see that two interpolations are applied. Continuous going into the keyframe and linear leaving. Same with the 2nd set. It'll be linear going in and continuous going out.
I know it sounds confusing, but hopefully that helps you understand a bit how the interpolation works in Motion. Think of interpolation as not a factor of the keyframe, but rather a factor of the animation line on either side of the keyframe. The line on one side of a keyframe can be one interpolation, and the line on the other can be a different interpolation.
Andy
PS: BTW, you may find that you need to change the 1st set of keyframes heading into the pause to Bezier instead of Continuous. Then you can manually adjust the ease in speed to the pause to make it smoother.
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