I have a title which consists of a rectangle and some text on it.
I created an animation for it using some inbuilt effects like Transform and Transparency, with keyframes. Basically, it slides in from left to right and opacity changes from 0 to 100. Then after few seconds it goes back from right to left and opacity 100 to 0.
I have a lot of titles like that, and I want same for them. Manually creating for each clip would be very tedious.
And copying pasting has one issue (see image): Those clips have different lengths, so keyframes at the end of clip won’t align to all of them, unlike beginning which is always going to align. So I’d have to manually adjust them for all clips. I want the keyframes at beginning to snap to beginning of a clip (which already works), and the keyframes at the end to snap to end of clip.
Is there any other better way? For example, can I save all this animation as an effect (or maybe save as two effects, one for beginning and one for end of clip so it takes care of alignment regardless of length of clips) and later use it on other clips?
The problem with keyframes is that they are always counted from the beginning of the clip.
The only workaround is that if your animation always kicks in at, say, 5 seconds before the end of the clip, create a new custom effect for that (or even better: a new preset for the Transform effect). Then cut the clip 5s before its end, and apply the Transform preset to just that clip.
Effect presets are available through the slider icon in the effect header. Once a preset is created is shows up in a list from which you can select it:
You can always copy and paste keyframes, or select subsets of them to move - but there’s no magic “fix them for a new clip length” button because there is no “one way to fix them” to fill the extra space.
I didn’t know about custom effects. I just tried and it will definitely make things easier.
Because all my clips are different length, a similar solution I found is, make all my clips 5 seconds and then apply that custom effect. Then split all of them from middle and resize from in between, that way front and end keyframes stay at their respective position.
I don’t know about effect preset. How is it different from custom effects (which I save using save as stack)?
After trying Presets, I think I understand what they are. But they can’t be applied at all clips at once. So I think custom effects is a better solution.
