Smooth, eased keyframes in Premiere Pro: plugins and the native way

What does a Premiere Pro easing plugin actually do?

An easing plugin takes the two states of a move and writes the keyframes between them, so the change starts gently and lands gently. You choose the start and end values. The plugin handles the spacing.

Without easing, a move runs at one rate from its first frame to its last. Take a scale from 100 to 115 over one second at 25 frames per second. It climbs 0.6 every frame and then stops dead. That sudden start and stop is what makes keyframed motion look mechanical. An eased move begins with small steps, takes bigger ones in the middle, and shrinks them again before the end value. A spring runs past the end value and settles back onto it. A bounce reaches the end value and rebounds before it rests.

We make mouzeclick, and mouzestate is ours, so read its section below with that in mind. We haven't named any other easing plugins on this page because we couldn't verify their makers' pages when we checked on 3 November 2026. What follows is the by-hand method, our tool, and how to judge any easing tool you try.

How do keyframes work in Premiere Pro?

A keyframe stores one value of one property at one moment, and a move needs at least two of them. The editor works out every frame in between. That in-between step is called interpolation, and easing is a choice about how those in-between values are spaced.

Two ideas cover most of it:

• Timing is how far apart the keyframes sit. Ten frames is quick and fifty is slow.
• Spacing is how the change is shared out across those frames. It can be even (linear) or bunched at the ends (eased).

The table shows the same move from 0 to 100 over 10 frames, once linear and once with a standard ease-in-out curve. The curve is a textbook example to show the shape, not Premiere's own maths.

The linear move adds 10 every frame. The eased one adds 0.4 at the start, peaks at 24.4 in the middle, and lands with 0.4. Both arrive at 100 on frame 10. Only the feel changes.

The properties editors animate most are position, scale, rotation and opacity. Each one has its own keyframes, so a clip that scales and moves at the same time carries two sets.

How do I add keyframes in Premiere Pro by hand?

Set a keyframe with the start value at the start of the move, move the playhead, then set a keyframe with the end value. That is the whole free method, and it works on any clip.

1. Decide the two states first: where the clip starts, where it ends, and how many frames the move takes.
2. Select the clip and the property you want to animate.
3. Put the playhead on the first frame of the move and set a keyframe with the start value.
4. Move the playhead to the last frame of the move and set a keyframe with the end value.
5. Step through the move frame by frame, then play it at full speed. Judge it at speed, because a move can look fine stepped and still feel stiff when it plays.
6. Repeat for every property and every clip that needs the move.

Step 6 is where the work piles up. Two keyframes on one property across 20 clips is 40 keyframes. Add a position move and it's 80. Then the client wants the move slower, and you set them all again.

For the exact panel names and clicks in your version, use Adobe's Premiere help, which has pages titled Edit keyframes graphs and Customize keyboard shortcuts. We don't copy menu paths we couldn't check. To animate titles rather than clips, our guide to text animation in Premiere Pro walks through the extra steps.

How do I make keyframes smooth instead of robotic?

Ease the ends of every move that starts or stops on screen, and use as few keyframes as the move needs. Most stiff motion comes from a linear move, or from extra keyframes that each start and stop the motion again.

• Two keyframes per move. A third keyframe in the middle adds a second start and stop unless its spacing is matched on both sides.
• Slow into the end value for things that arrive. A title flying in should decelerate and settle. Something leaving can speed up as it exits, because the viewer stops watching it.
• One curve per set. If six lower thirds all enter, give them the same ease and the same duration. Matching curves read as one design. Mixed curves read as mistakes.
• Short moves for small changes. A 15% punch-in doesn't need a second of travel. For reference, mouzeclick's AutoZoom (Windows only) defaults to a 0.18 s transition for its 115% punch-in.
• Spring and bounce once per shot. Overshoot pulls the eye, so give it to the one element you want noticed.

Where mouzestate fits (we make it)

mouzestate is our answer to step 6. You set a start look and an end look, and it writes the move between them as Premiere's own keyframes, with ease, spring or bounce, on up to 40 clips at once.

• 15 ready looks to start from, or your own start and end.
• Ease, spring or bounce for the move between them.
• Up to 40 clips in one go, so a set of lower thirds or product shots moves the same way.
• Premiere's own keyframes as the result, on the clips.
• Windows and Mac. It is one of mouzeclick's 8 Premiere Pro extensions, and the extensions run on both.

The mouzestate feature page lists all 39 of its items, read from its code. It isn't sold on its own. It comes with the one mouzeclick plan, alongside the other 21 extensions and the 4 core panels.

Where it isn't the right pick: for one clip and one move, setting two keyframes by hand is quicker than opening any panel. mouzestate also gives you ease, spring or bounce, not a curve you shape yourself. If you want a specific curve, see the Easing lab below, which is Windows only.

How do I ease many clips at once with mouzestate?

Install mouzeclick, add the Premiere bridge, restart Premiere, then open mouzestate from Window › Extensions. Select your clips, set the looks, and pick the motion.

1. Start the 3-day trial. No card is needed. The key and the Windows and Mac download links arrive by email.
2. Install the app and paste the key. There's no driver. On a Mac, follow the four Mac install steps. Apple has not notarized the app yet, so macOS asks you to allow it the first time. Then turn on mouzeclick under Accessibility and Input Monitoring.
3. In the app, open the Tool wheel page and press Install Premiere bridge. Restart Premiere.
4. Open mouzestate from Window › Extensions.
5. Select the clips to animate, up to 40.
6. Pick one of the 15 ready looks, or set your own start look and end look.
7. Choose ease, spring or bounce and apply it. mouzestate writes Premiere's own keyframes on each clip.
8. Keep mouzeclick running while you work. Updates refresh the panels by themselves.

If the panel won't show up, our guide to installing Premiere Pro extensions walks through installing extension panels.

Can I use a custom easing curve in Premiere Pro?

Yes. For the native route, Adobe's Premiere help has a page titled Edit keyframes graphs. With mouzeclick on Windows, the Premiere Pro workspace has an Easing lab with Graph Editor 2.0, six curve types and the same 44 ready curves as the After Effects Easing lab. The curve is baked into the keyframes of the properties you tick.

The workspace's Toolbox also has Transform rows with keyframe buttons, which saves a trip through the property list when you set keyframes by hand. You open the workspace from Window › Extensions › mouzeclick workspace. It holds 300+ tools, presets and templates on Windows.

Be clear about platform. The workspaces are part of mouzeclick on Windows. The Mac app does not include them. On a Mac, mouzestate's ease, spring and bounce are what you get for easing. The workspace atlas shows every section of both workspaces. If you also animate in After Effects, the After Effects Easing lab's 44 curves are the same set, with Read, Apply and Auto, and export as .mzgraph. That workspace is Windows only too.

Which tools write zoom and punch-in keyframes?

Zooms and punch-ins are a staple keyframed move in talking-head and screen-recording edits. Here are the ways to write them, next to the by-hand way, checked on 3 November 2026.

AutoZoom's defaults are a 115% punch-in every 4 s, a 1.5 s hold and a 0.18 s transition. Clear Zoom takes them off again. Nothing is triggered by speech: it works on a timing. The AutoZoom guide goes through each setting. Studio's Timeline tab adds Zoom every other clip, with "Keep faces in frame", on Windows and Mac. For screen recordings, mouzezoom's 45 items are listed in the feature library. For a zoom used as a transition between clips, see the Premiere Pro zoom transition guide.

What should I check when eased keyframes don't work?

First check the move itself, then the panel. Most problems are a missing second keyframe, or a panel that isn't connected to Premiere.

The move looks wrong

• Nothing moves. One keyframe holds a value. It takes two different values to make a move.
• It jerks halfway. There's probably a third keyframe in the middle. Delete it, or match the spacing on both sides of it.
• It's too fast to read. Push the end keyframe later. Easing spends frames at both ends, so the middle of a short eased move travels faster than a linear one of the same length.
• Two moves fight. Look at what is already on the property. Another tool or an earlier pass may have written keyframes there.

The mouzeclick panel isn't there

• Not under Window › Extensions. Press Install Premiere bridge on the app's Tool wheel page, then restart Premiere.
• Panel open but not responding. mouzeclick must be running. It also needs an internet connection while it runs, because the licence and profiles live in your account.
• On a Mac, nothing reacts. Turn on mouzeclick under Accessibility and Input Monitoring, then quit it and open it again.

If extension panels show up but stay unclickable, our page on Premiere Pro extensions greyed out lists the usual causes.

How do I put keyframe shortcuts on my mouse buttons?

Any action that has a keyboard shortcut in Premiere can go on a mouse button. Record the shortcut in mouzeclick's mouse app, which runs on Windows and Mac.

To give an action a shortcut first, Adobe's help has a page titled Customize keyboard shortcuts. Our guide to changing Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts covers that side, and the Premiere Pro shortcut list is the place to look up what's already assigned.

In mouzeclick:

1. Open the Premiere Pro profile. Buttons work per app, so Mouse 4 can cut a clip in Premiere, switch tabs in Chrome and paste everywhere else.
2. Pick a button. Each one has eleven slots: tap, hold and move in four directions, a chord with another button, or hold and scroll.
3. Record the shortcut, or choose one from the built-in library. It has 309 shortcuts on Windows, 153 of them for Premiere Pro.
4. For actions you use less often, add them to the Options wheel (F8), which holds 48 favourites per app. Premiere Pro comes with a ready-made wheel.

It works with any mouse your computer sees, using up to five standard buttons plus scroll and tilt, with no driver. The Premiere Tool wheel opens with F10 or a held right button and adds the zoom and anchor tools from the table above. More setups are in our guide to Premiere Pro mouse shortcuts.

What does it cost, and what runs on a Mac?

mouzeclick is one plan with everything in it: $25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys. The 3-day trial needs no card. See mouzeclick pricing for the payment options.

• Windows and Mac: mouzestate and the other extensions, Studio's Silence, Timeline and Guides tabs, the Toolbar, Search effects, both Tool wheels, and the mouse app with its wheels and gestures.
• Windows only: the two workspaces (so the Easing lab and AutoZoom), Studio captions (auto, styled and Hinglish), Retakes, cloud sync and in-app updates.
• One key runs on one computer at a time, Windows or Mac, at the same price.

Premiere itself is separate. Adobe now calls it Adobe Premiere, and it is sold only as a membership. When we checked on 3 November 2026, the single app plan started at US$22.99/mo, annual, billed monthly, for the first year and new subscribers only. Creative Cloud Pro, which includes Premiere and 20+ more apps, showed US$34.99/mo for the first 3 months, then US$69.99/mo, for new subscribers only. Adobe's free trial works on macOS and Windows. There's no charge until it ends, and you can cancel up to 14 days after for a full refund.

Questions people ask

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Adobe Premiere product page: name change, single app price, membership only, Creative Cloud Pro offer (checked 3 Nov 2026)
2. Adobe Creative Cloud plans: Adobe Premiere US$22.99/mo, annual, billed monthly (checked 3 Nov 2026)
3. Adobe Premiere free trial: macOS and Windows, cancel up to 14 days after for a full refund
4. Adobe Premiere help: Default keyboard shortcuts (its help menu lists the Edit keyframes graphs and Customize keyboard shortcuts pages)

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