Reader small image

You're reading from  Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

Product typeBook
Published inMar 2024
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781804614921
Edition1st Edition
Right arrow
Author (1)
Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
author image
Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
Read more about Bruce G. Macbryde

Right arrow

What is a keyframe?

Visually, a keyframe appears as a white dot in the audio track in the timeline, yellow when selected (see Figure 13.3), and as an orange diamond in the inspector (see Figure 13.6). A keyframe can also be a white dot in the opacity setting of a video track (Figure 13.1):

Figure 13.1: White keyframe dots showing in the video opacity setting

Figure 13.1: White keyframe dots showing in the video opacity setting

A keyframe can also show as white dots or an orange diamond on a red line when displayed in the viewer, as shown in Figure 13.2:

Figure 13.2: White keyframe dot on a red line in the viewer

Figure 13.2: White keyframe dot on a red line in the viewer

Keyframes all look slightly different and react a little differently, but all represent the same concept. The common factor is that a keyframe is needed to start a change and another keyframe is needed to indicate the end of the change. If you add another keyframe in between, then the added keyframe becomes both the new end point for the original start keyframe and the new start point...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

Author (1)

author image
Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
Read more about Bruce G. Macbryde