FCPX Quick Tip - Animating with Keyframes

Kevin P. McAuliffe
Toronto Canada

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Another big concern with FCPX is whether or not it's easy to work with Keyframes. In this Final Cut Pro X video tutorial, you will see that working with Keyframes is easier than it has ever been!

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Re: FCPX Quick Tip - Animating with Keyframes
by Carlos Garcia

Thanks Rick that was helpful. I had one question for you? I have FCPX and I got the key framing down, but one thing that I noticed was that there were no keyframes made on the timeline? In FCP7 as you know when you make a keyframe, the keyframe also shows up on the clip in the timeline, giving me a visual time of how long the keyframe last. In this new X version i don't know where to switch that on or if it even has that option. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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