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Scale and position animation problems

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March 6, 2016
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When attempting to animate scale/position in premiere pro using keyframes the animation takes place in the first few seconds of the clip, rather than throughout the entire clip, anyone know a fix?

HELP! PREMIERE PRO CC 2015 KEYFRAME SCALE/POSITION ERROR - YouTube

See video of error here.

pay attention to the effects panel and the video preview.

Thanks!

Edited by Kevin Monahan

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Correct answer te_huiam143143

Hey Guys,

Ive found a solution. Before you start key framing, go to "Effects" and layer "Transform" on top of the image/video you want to keyframe. Keyframe everything under the "Tranform" drop down in "Effects Controls"

Hope this has helped.

Kamran-Khan1

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Aaron Ncz

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SOLUTION: Select the keyframes in the "effect control" panel, right click, find "spatial interpretation" from the drop down menu, and select "linear" instead of "auto bezier". This helped me to fix the jumping back and forth effect when I just wanted to scroll an image in the video.

OneSkyWalker

Inspiring

Thanks Aaron.

Like you, I am trying to animate a still image in a video. I am using Premiere Pro V15.4.1 on a workstation running Windows 10 V21H1.

I found the Start Animating In Premiere Pro tutorial and the Advanced Keyframing In Premiere Pro tutorial to be helpful in understanding how to select a keyframe and change its default settings.

As you have noted, Auto Bezier (not Linear) is the default Spatial Interpolation setting for a keyframe. (By the way, a Bézier curve is a parametric curve defined by a set of control points, two of which are the ends of the curve, and the others determine its shape.) It is odd that a spatial interpolation setting is associated with a keyframe, since the interpolation setting would seem to define the shape of the curve between two keyframes, and not apply to a keyframe itself (which, except for the first and last keyframe in a sequence, defines the endpoint of two curves, one being the curve which precedes the keyframe in time and the other being the curve which follows the keyframe in time).

Like you, I found that Premiere Pro's interpolation of some curves between two keyframes is not linear. In particular, when I ask that the horizontal position change over time from one keyframe to another (keeping the vertical postion constant), the vertical position varies in the animation. I found that if I change the Spatial Interpolation of the keyframe following the curve from Auto Bezier to Linear, the vertical position of the curve no longer varies in the animation.

Thanks for your help!

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codyturk

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I stumpled upon this while searching Google to resolve a very similar issue that I am having. I figured I'd still reply since I found a method that worked for me.

My issue

Transform effect seems to not scale or position on a clip that I applied the effect to. WTF... pulling hair out.

What I believe was happening to cause the issue.

Before applying the "Transform" effect to the clip. I had done a speed ramp to the same clip. I believe that the stacking of the two effects were conflicting with each other. Speed ramping with it's sudden slow and fast motion and the "Transform" effect with its fast zoom in with the 180 degree shutter angle active.

The solution that worked for me.

I seperated out the two motion effects (Transform, and Speed Ramping). I left the Speed Ramp on the original clip and I created an adjustment layer and applied the "Transform" effect to that.

I really hope this helpls some of you out, I normally don't leave replies but this fraustrated me enough that I felt obligated to leave a reply with the solution that worked for me.

Cheers and happy editing.

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dalew8981781

Participant

None of this is helping me! Very frustrating that the keyframes that have worked for years is now acting up. I am on "linear." I tried "transform" but doing the same thing. I tried resetting. Didn't help. I'm thinking now of going back to FCP. Ughh...

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StrikaSA

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Thanks but this method yields exactly the same result for me.

te_huiam143143Correct answer

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Hey Guys,

Ive found a solution. Before you start key framing, go to "Effects" and layer "Transform" on top of the image/video you want to keyframe. Keyframe everything under the "Tranform" drop down in "Effects Controls"

Hope this has helped.

M

Mokaab

Participant

Thanks bro.Very good

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codywet

Participant

I was having a similar issue. I was trying to keyframe the position of my clip, after adding keyframes I went to watch playback and the clip was not moving to the keyframes although they were still showing in the effects controls. But you cannot nest a clip if you are trying to change the position of the clip as it will crop the video to whatever the scale is at when you nest it. I also had speed remapping in the same clip I needed to keyframe, so that was likely causing trouble from the get go just as many people have pointed out.

What I found to work was to delete the clip I needed to keyframe out of the sequence and re-drop it into the sequence. Set keyframes and do speed remapping after keyframes are set. It seemed to work for me and I had tried nearly every other solution I found on different forum posts but none worked until I simply deleted the clip and started fresh.

seang24312718

Participant

I have the same issue. I will position a key frame to adjust scale or position at say 40 seconds w/ the keyframe set to linear. Even though the key frame displays at 40sec in the effects control timeline, the effect change happens at 39 seconds. Roughly one second before its supposed to. When I hunt around a "hidden" key frame will appear at 39s but will then disappear. Resetting the clip has not helped. Same buggy shifting of / adding a hidden keyframe problem persists.

Please help!

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Tapley Creative

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Has anyone discovered a resolution to this issue?

I had the same problem with a clip yesterday, deleted all keyframes and reset, then it worked normally. This morning I have a new clip with the same issues, although neither deleting keyframes nor linear interpolation settings have resolved the issue.

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Nest between scale and position.

jesse63

Participating Frequently

Same problem here. Simple motion keyframes producing the most odd results, with no chance of finding the cause.

Bugs, bugs, bugs.

I am a usually happy user of Adobe CC's many cutting edge apps, but I must say that Premiere really sucks. Even reports of several year old bugs aren't addressed, rendering issues being one of the really monumental ones.