Add keyframe shortcut. (Scale, Position, Anchor Point...)

Sir_Ivan

USER: Now that Opacity no longer has keyframes enabled by default, is there any way the Opacity Stopwatch of several clips could be activated at the same time? I saw you create opacity fades on several clips at once in your demo video. It would be great if it was possible to trigger the Opacity stopwatch of selected clips when adding Opacity values to them through a User Command.

daniaparecido

It would be marvelous for my workflow a shortcut to simply set a keyframe (at actual value) or toggle the stopwatch animation, just like in After Effects when we use "Alt+S" to set a keyframe on Scale parameter.

Not sure if this is possible within Premiere API. Would be amazing to see something like that.

Sir_Ivan

daniaparecido toggle stopwatch is something I will add in a future update. At the same time ability to add keyframe at actual value is something also great to consider!

midm

daniaparecido as a workaround you can create a preconfiguration with stopwatch enabled and 0 keyframes, and apply this preconfiguration with Excalibur
any change in value will then create keyframes
if you want to set a keyframe at current value, create a user command that does +1 then -1

Sir_Ivan

midm this is a good temporal solution!

lemoscaio

midm That's great! I did something similar, but dumber haha. I created several scale keyframe placements presets (1% - 100%, 1% - 50%). If you use always the same effect, it works.

daniaparecido

midm I thought of that, but sometimes I want to toggle the stopwatch after I made changes in Motion parameters to animate from that. Making a preset like that will always make that the clip have those parameters set in the preset.

But I can't deny that's a great workaround for now.

brianlevin83

It would be great to be able to add a keyframe using just a shortcut key, just like we can do in After Effects. The way it works in AE is whatever layer(s) you have selected, at the playhead, when you push ALT/OPT + P it will create a new position keyframe.

This is a super fast way to choose your existing position as the start point of an animation without having to manually activate the stopwatch, and then your next position adjustment will automatically keyframe for you.

I'm working on something right now where I keep wishing I could do this, but it's not possible... yet!

Sir_Ivan

brianlevin83 year, this one is a long overdue. I think I will mix it with just "enable stopwatch" as it makes more sense to me!