Camera Animation - Camera moves too far?

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Hello community!

I have a problem and I am not sure how to solve it smoothly without loads of “camera vibrating”.
I have a animation where the camera moves to an object, shows the object for a moment and then moves back to the player.
Four positions (with rotation), so I naturally set four keyframes: start, beginning view on object, ending view on object, return.
Start and return both have the same coordinates regarding position and rotation. Begin and end have same rotation, end has a slightly different position (it’s supposed to slowly zoom towards the object before returning to the character).

But whenever I play the animation, the camera moves perfectly to begin, but then shoots way over it and THEN moves to the end and from there animates perfectly to the return.

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Is there any way to avoid that?
I tried with setting additional keyframes that all moved back to the original position, but that only makes the camera ‘shiver’ since it apparently still attempts to make that curve.

I would really appreciate help with this.
Thanks in advance!

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I’m sure you already figured this out since it’s been over a month, but just in case, in the animation window there is an option (can’t remember at the moment) I believe near the record button where you can change the key interpolation.
I believe you want to select linear interpolation.
Sorry my suggestions are vague - I’ve been in photoshop and 3D Max for nearly 2 months straight.

You can find it straight away by checking the documentation for keyframe interpolation.