Skip to main content
Known Participant
June 14, 2022
Question

How can I keyframe across multiple clips/

  • June 14, 2022
  • 1 reply
  • 4205 views

This might be a super easy question, but I just can't figure it out! I'm doing a stop motion video and would like to pan the keyframe left and right during a sword fight I'm working on. I have done keyframing many times within a single clip, but I'd like to do one across 4 or 5 pictures.

 

So I'd start it on pic 1 and then slowly pan left to pic 4. And then pan back to the right from 5 to 8 as an example.

 

Can anyone please help me with this? Thank you!!

1 reply

Community Expert
June 14, 2022

I'm not sure I understand your question.  If I do, and it were me, I would create an intermediate complete clip from the four or five pictures.  Put them in a separate project, output the clip and then put that clip into the primary project fro keyframing.

Known Participant
June 14, 2022

See the thing is that I kind of messed up on it... I'm doing it in portrait and have never done it in portrait mode before.

 

So it's a bit zoomed in, and a few frames in, they step too much to the left, so I need to compensate by scrolling the camera over. Then I moved them too much to the right so I have to scroll it back.

 

I manually adjusted the camera each clip to move with the figures, but it's a sharp move each frame. I'd love it to pan with the characters... so I start a keyframe and then have it gradually move left over 4 pictures. And then the same with back to the right.

 

If I zoom out, it's super easy, but I didn't take the pics close enough, so it doesn't look that good when it's zoomed out.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 14, 2022

Place a Adjustment layer over several clips. Add the transform effect and keyframe the anchor point.