Possible to move keyframes from clip to track?

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June 29, 2020
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Hello,
I've added a bunch of keyframes to some music clips in my timeline. I now want to change the music track, and the new track is longer than the old one, so it's not a simple case of alt-drag to replace the music. Ideally, I'd be able to move all the clips' keyframes from the clip to the track, so whatever I put on the track would abide by those keyframes (they're to duck the music because of dialogue on another track).

I've tried copying/pasting the keyframes, but that doesn't seem to do anything. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

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Richard M Knight

Community Expert

You could add your keyframes to a submix track and send the various music tracks to that submix.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

I think this would satisfy your wishes...

you could also nest the original music track with the keyframes in the containing sequence, double-click on the nest to load it in the timeline, select the clip and copy and then paste attributes to the nest in the containing sequence. then delete the keyframes in the music clip inside the nest. Then all you have to do is replace the clip in the nest with the new music... But, be aware that this will effect all the uses of the nest in other sequences, I think. There are ways around this, I think but

always a good idea to test your workflow before digging yourself too deep a hole.

hellopaul4Author

Inspiring

I did indeed eventually nest the audio track for another reason: In Premiere Pro, it's impossible to duplicate an audio track, which is utterly ludicrous. I wanted to try out different music tracks, so I could go into the nested sequence, add a new track, drop new music onto that track, solo it, and then my main sequence would still have all the audio fades. It wasn't ideal because the sequence was 9 minutes long so I had to loop the music tracks, and wanted to ensure the loop points were during a ducked-down portion (i.e. during some dialogue). I had to keep jumping back and forth between my main sequence and my music sequence to ensure those points were correctly timed - each music track was a different duration so I couldn't just think "at 03:29 there's some dialogue and that'd be a good place to do the loop". If I could:
Copy & paste keyframes from clip to track
and
Duplicate audio tracks
...all my problems would have been solved much faster. I will feature request both those right now!

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

try this. mark an in and out on the new piece of music so it's the same duration as the old track, and then with the patch panel set appropriately, drag from the source to the program monitor and choose replace. I think the keyframes will remain. You can then extend the clip without altering your keyframes.

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Michael Grenadier

Legend

I think you can also copy keyframes by copying the original clip and
past attributes into the replacement

hellopaul4Author

Inspiring

I really wanted to paste the keyframes into the track (not onto the clip), but as far as I can tell that's not possible. So I manually/tediously just added new keyframes to the new track, and matched them by eye. At least now I can change the music track as often as I want and maintain all the track keyframes.

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