Creative tools
Keyframes
Animate transform, crop, text, effect, and audio values with keyframes and ready-made animations.
Where keyframes live
Keyframes are set in the Inspector, beside the value they animate. For ready-made motion, open Animation under Creative tools: zoom, entrance, exit, emphasis and loop presets, text motion, and the list of everything applied to the clip.
Add a keyframe
- Move the playhead to the frame you want to key.
- Click the diamond on the parameter row to key its current value.
- Move to another frame and change the value; a second key creates motion between them.
What you can animate
| Clip type | Animatable values |
|---|---|
| All visual clips | X / Y position, width, height, rotation, opacity, corner radius |
| Video | Adds anchor point, the four crop edges, crop softness, and volume |
| Text | Adds preset scale, font size, line height, padding, background radius, shadow, and stroke |
| Audio | Volume in decibels |
Review and clean up motion
Live behaviors such as drift, breath, shake, and spin evaluate during playback without creating property keys.
- Applied in the Animation panel lists manual keys, presets and live behaviors on the clip; select one to jump to it, or remove it.
- Choose Bake to keyframes to convert live layer behaviors into editable keys.
- Use Trim animation when a clip trim leaves stored keys outside its visible duration.
- Clear every keyframe on the selected clips with ⇧A.