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How to animate with keyframes

Click a clip on the track, open its Motion tab, move the playhead and press Add keyframe; move the playhead again, change the pose, add another. The picture moves between them. Titles, layers, effects and masks keyframe the same way.

1. Pick what moves. Click a cut on the track (its inspector opens), a title or a layer on the picture, an effect block or a mask.
2. Set the first key. Put the playhead where the move starts and press Add keyframe (on a clip, in the Motion tab).
3. Set the next key. Move the playhead, change the position, size, turn or opacity — on a title or a layer with keyframes on, the change writes a key by itself. Diamonds on the strip show each key.
4. Choose the easing. Select a key and pick how the move leaves it: linear, ease in, ease out, ease in and out, back (a small overshoot) or hold (a jump).
5. Shape the curve. Press Shift+G for the graph editor: drag a key in time and value, double-click a stretch to make it a curve and drag its two handles.
6. Shape the path. A title or layer that moves shows its path on the picture; drag a point on it to move that key.

Ken Burns in one click

The Motion tab has six ready moves — Push in, Pull out, Pan left, Pan right, Tilt up, Tilt down — each two keys from the cut’s start to its end, eased.

Motion blur on moves

Export → Renderer → Frame-accurate → Motion blur on moves blends sub-frames across each frame while something keyed is moving, the way a camera shutter would.

Undo is Ctrl+Z, and one history covers the whole project.

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Last reviewed 22 October 2026.