In FCP how do you select multiple keyframes and then delete those keyframes? I have a lot of keyframes that need to be deleted. It is too cumbersome to select each keyframe one at a time and delete. If possible I'd prefer to use a selection rectangle to select multiple keyframes and then delete. I can't seem to figure it out even when reading this:
Modify groups of keyframes in Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6
W. Raider wrote:
It's odd, the manual says this but I've never• had it work:
"Drag a selection rectangle around the keyframes you want to select.
That is interesting. I tried to do the same thing and at first also did not succeed.
Except... I could actually do it for the Compositing:Opacity, once I clicked the disclosure triangle.
I tried it with another effect as well.
My take away from this is: you can select by dragging a selection rectangle if that area of the Video Animation pane is twirled open. In the picture below, "Comic Cool: Mix" is open and I CAN select multiple keyframes by dragging. Composing: Opacity is closed, but if I open, by clicking the disclosure triangle, then I also can select.
Other parameters do not show that disclosure triangle, and their keyframes cannot be selected by dragging.
W. Raider wrote:
It's odd, the manual says this but I've never• had it work:
"Drag a selection rectangle around the keyframes you want to select.
That is interesting. I tried to do the same thing and at first also did not succeed.
Except... I could actually do it for the Compositing:Opacity, once I clicked the disclosure triangle.
I tried it with another effect as well.
My take away from this is: you can select by dragging a selection rectangle if that area of the Video Animation pane is twirled open. In the picture below, "Comic Cool: Mix" is open and I CAN select multiple keyframes by dragging. Composing: Opacity is closed, but if I open, by clicking the disclosure triangle, then I also can select.
Other parameters do not show that disclosure triangle, and their keyframes cannot be selected by dragging.
Did you try using the Range tool R to drag across a group of keyframes?
Click on the first keyframe you want to delete, then hold the shift key down and click on the last keyframe you want to delete. The first, last and all keyframes in between should now be selected - so press the delete key.
MtD
ah yeah, that's not clear from the manual.
You can drag out a selection rectangle
You can drag that selection rectangle left and right
You can command + option drag the whole keyframe line up and down (odd how this works though, seems inconsistent)
You can selection rectangle a group of keyframes and drag them up and down
Neat, i've never had this work before. Now if we could just drag to select keyframes in an un-expanded keyframe line.
It's in the video animation - and the keyframes are in the Crop area. I can click-delete, click-delete, . . . . But, that can take a long time if there are an excessive number of keyframes. A selection rectangle would be a much nicer way to do it.
It's odd, the manual says this but I've never had it work:
Modify groups of keyframes in Final Cut Pro for Mac - Apple Support
I've always figured it was just some long standing bug or something erroneous in the manual.
Can you post a screenshot that shows the keyframes you want to modify?
Yes, I did. But, the range tool only selects the clip - not the keyframes. And, if you have the clip selected and click delete - then that portion of clip gets deleted.
FCP - Delete multiple keyframes at once.
