Answers.Body: <p>You cannot expand the Transform Line in the Timeline. You can finetune your <em>Position</em> keyframes separately in the Viewer.</p>
  <ul>
  <li><p>Create keyframes and navigate between them with the keyframe buttons in the top-left corner of the Viewer.</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/CKNe9.png" alt="keyframe buttons" /></p>
  </li>
  </ul>
  <h2>Position keyframes</h2>
  <ul>
  <li><p>Click the Transform button in the lower-left corner of the Viewer (Shift-T).</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/64mbz.png" alt="transform button" /></p>
  </li>
  <li><p>The yellow handles in the middle of your clip are your position keyframes. Control-click on one of them.</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/jHTra.png" alt="keyframe popup" /></p>
  </li>
  <li><p>Choose Smooth in the popup, you will see two smaller red dots, they are the bezier handles!</p>
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/vSotu.png" alt="bezier handles" /></p>
  </li>
  <li><p>You can change direction and speed by moving the bezier handles.</p>
  <ul>
  <li>change the length of the handle that points to the other keyframe</li>
  <li>short means fast, long means slow</li>
  <li>set your start speed in the first keyframe, and your end speed in the last keyframe.</li>
  <li>if you make them both short, you will start gradually, speed up in the middle and slow down before stopping. use it for a smooth motion</li>
  <li>if you make them both long, you will start promptly, slow down in the middle and stop abruptly. Use this effect to imitate gravity (bouncing)</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
  </ul>
  <h2>Rotation and Scale keyframes</h2>
  <ul>
  <li>These can also be set separately but they are not visible on the Position line in the viewer as yellow dots.</li>
  <li>In the middle of your clip is the blue Rotation handle.</li>
  <li>On the corners and borders are the eight blue handles for Scaling.</li>
  <li>Scale and Rotation keyframes don't have a smooth option in FCPX. It might be possible to do that in Motion.</li>
  </ul>
  
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Body: <p>I'm wondering how I can expand the transformation line like it's possible for the compositing. Can it be done? Where can I edit the connection between two keyframes from linear to ...?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/0FC8I.png" alt="Video animation dialoge: How to open the transformation pane like the compositing one at the bottom?"></p>
  
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Comments.Text: Try clicking on the little triangle next to the name.  I don't have FCPX myself, but that generally indicates that something can be expanded.
Comments.UserDisplayName: AJ Henderson
Tags: <final-cut-pro-x><animation>
Title: Precise Keyframing in Final Cut Pro X
UserDisplayName: NE555
ThreadText: # Precise Keyframing in Final Cut Pro X
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-02-18)
  
  I'm wondering how I can expand the transformation line like it's possible for the compositing. Can it be done? Where can I edit the connection between two keyframes from linear to ...?
  
  ![Video animation dialoge: How to open the transformation pane like the compositing one at the bottom?](https://i.sstatic.net/0FC8I.png)
  
  **Tags:** final-cut-pro-x, animation
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Try clicking on the little triangle next to the name.  I don't have FCPX myself, but that generally indicates that something can be expanded.  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-02-18. Score: 2
  
  You cannot expand the Transform Line in the Timeline. You can finetune your *Position* keyframes separately in the Viewer.
  
  * Create keyframes and navigate between them with the keyframe buttons in the top-left corner of the Viewer.
  
    ![keyframe buttons](https://i.sstatic.net/CKNe9.png)
  
  ## Position keyframes
  
  * Click the Transform button in the lower-left corner of the Viewer (Shift-T).
  
    ![transform button](https://i.sstatic.net/64mbz.png)
  * The yellow handles in the middle of your clip are your position keyframes. Control-click on one of them.
  
    ![keyframe popup](https://i.sstatic.net/jHTra.png)
  * Choose Smooth in the popup, you will see two smaller red dots, they are the bezier handles!
  
    ![bezier handles](https://i.sstatic.net/vSotu.png)
  * You can change direction and speed by moving the bezier handles.
  
    + change the length of the handle that points to the other keyframe
    + short means fast, long means slow
    + set your start speed in the first keyframe, and your end speed in the last keyframe.
    + if you make them both short, you will start gradually, speed up in the middle and slow down before stopping. use it for a smooth motion
    + if you make them both long, you will start promptly, slow down in the middle and stop abruptly. Use this effect to imitate gravity (bouncing)
  
  ## Rotation and Scale keyframes
  
  * These can also be set separately but they are not visible on the Position line in the viewer as yellow dots.
  * In the middle of your clip is the blue Rotation handle.
  * On the corners and borders are the eight blue handles for Scaling.
  * Scale and Rotation keyframes don't have a smooth option in FCPX. It might be possible to do that in Motion.
  
  
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