Baking clip transform offsets to clip

Is there an easy way to "bake" clip transform offset to their clip?

By "bake" I mean, zero the transform offsets and apply the values to the clip so that the clip visually remains the same.

I'm trying to find a way to do this for a while now but I'm not having any luck. It feels like basic functionality that should be there, but maybe it isn't?

 

Will doing it with the Unity Recorder result in the same amount of keyframes, or will it generate a keyframe for every frame (which I assume it's going to do, which is no good for what I want).

Imagine a camera animation clip where it has 20 keyframes in the span of 5 seconds. -> Recorder will result in a ton of keyframes, making the clip hard to further edit (unless I'm wrong about the recorder) and 20 keyframes is more than I'm willing to do completely manually (especially considering there are multiple clips I want to do this for).

The solution is actually to write a tool that edits the playable/clips and applies an obliterates the offsets, but I was hoping there was an easier solution.

 

Actually...

I am missing something probably again.

A. These are the recorded clip values:


B: This is the clip offset: (track has no offset)


C: This is the final actual position in the scene:


I assumed A+B = C or something like that, but I utterly fail to see what kind of process I would have to do to A and B to result to C.

 

So, I *got it*. It's like Clip Transform Offsets is the parent, and then the actual clip is the "child" and the values are in local space. Which...

I...

I want a simple tool to create cutscenes. I want to able to say, "you know, at this frame, I want the camera to be at a 45 degree angle". But I can't.

This tool isn't it. It also wasn't it two years ago, and it probably won't be in 2 extra years.

The only thing I pity is the amount work I put into creating actual cutscenes with Timeline, that I will now have to re-create from scratch, because I once again bought into the Unity dream.

I cannot work with this. Maybe other people can, I can't.

 

It is recommended, but it's also useless.

As far as I can tell there is no way to keep the offsets to 0 past the first clip, so I don't understand what the warning would warn me against (I haven't seen such a warning like ever by the way).

See, if I reset the transform first and then record a clip, everything is fine:



NOW, I want to record another clip... What do I do? I click record, move the camera a bit. The resulting clip looks like this:


What would be the intended workflow to keep the offsets to 0? As far as I can tell there isn't one. It's simply impossible.

Or am I missing something?

 

I spent the weekend trying to find a way to keep everything with zero offsets. I don't think it's possible.

I would love to be corrected.