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Activate keyframing

To animate an effect property, you must activate keyframing for that property in the Effect Controls panel. Once keyframes are activated, you can add and adjust as many keyframes as you need for animating the effect’s property.

Clicking the Toggle Animation button activates keyframing for an effect property at the current time.

  1. Make sure you have a sequence with clips in the Timeline panel. By default, the Fixed effects (Motion, Opacity, and Volume) are applied to clips in the video and audio tracks.
  2. (Optional) Add Standard effects to clips.
  3. Do any of the following:

    • In the Effect Controls panel, first select the clip in the Timeline panel that contains the effect you want to animate, and then in the Effect Controls panel, click the triangle to expand the controls of the effect you want to animate.

    • In the Timeline panel, click the Show Keyframes icon  and choose any option from the menu except Hide Keyframes. The Add/Delete Keyframes button is activated for keyframing. You can immediately start adding and adjusting keyframes only for Fixed Effects in the Timeline panel. Keyframing for Standard effects must be first activated in the Effect Controls panel.

  4. In the Effect Controls panel, click the triangle next to the effect property you want to animate.
  5. Click the Toggle Animation button  next to the property name. A keyframe appears at the current time. Keyframing is now activated for an effect’s property.