Lack of Keyframing Support in FC Express HD

For over 6years I have been a long time user of FCP2.0 on a G4,…
And in the last few weeks, a newcomer to FC Express HD on my new iMacG5/iSight. (I couldn’t afford the upgrade price to move to the FC Studio package.)
Am I missing something, or is FCE seriously lacking Keyframing support?
The manual supplied with the software package and imbedded Help Section is sparse on this topic. These onling forums seem to be the best place for getting "How To" advice.
I really loved the flexibility and control of the keyframe timeline that was alongside all the Motion parameters available in the Viewer pane of FCP2.0
Tell me I’m stupid and that what I want to see is available, but I haven’t found the right view or mouse click or menu or what!…..
I simply want to provide dynamic changes WITHIN a clip to such Motion parameters as Opacity. It seems as though this parameter can only be set for the total duration of the clip.
I have figured out how to do keyframing in controlling audio tracks, and dynamically moving “Scale” and “Position” within the duration of the clip. But some of the other Motion effects (Opacity, Blur,...) seem locked and do not allow multiple keyframes within the clip.
Help,
BoBo
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   2.1 GHz with i Sight & 20" Display

Tom,……..Thanks again for responding and recommending the Timeline be the pane to control the Motion function, Opacity.
With a lot of “playing around” and help from a friend in a local Apple Users Group, here are the details that we have come up with to dynamically control Opacity within a video clip:
Once the video clip is in the Timeline, you turn on Clip Overlays by clicking the squiggly line button in the lower left hand corner of the Timeline window.
When the 'Clip Overlays' mode is turned on, you will see a black horizontal line appear at the top of all video clips (and red lines in audio clips for that matter). That is the opacity control line at its default 100% setting.
Then on the Tool palette, you select the Pen tool; it looks like a
calligraphy pen and is the left option in that tool palette. When you position the tool on the video clip, specifically on the Opacity line, it converts to a pen point. Click on the opacity line with the pen tool and it applies an Opacity control point. Clicking on the Opacity line at multiple points creates finer control of the Opacity function. The cursor turns into crosshairs when over the point. Dragging the cross hair down or up, changes the opacity, much the same way one controls amplitude within the audio tracks.
Tom, this is the detail that I have not been able to find in the User’s Manual that came in the FCE box, nor in the Help Section of the software. I did learn from the Help Section (page 228 of my version of FCE HD) that the Motion Parameters, “Drop Shadow” and “Motion Blur”, are the only ones that cannot be controlled by keyframes. That’s too bad, because Blurring within a clip can have a neat effect; I don’t need to try to figure that one out quite yet.
Because of forums like this one, and people like yourself willing to help each other, the rest of us can achieve some satisfaction and performance improvements with this software.
Thanks again,
BoBo
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   2.1 GHz with i Sight & 20" Display

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