I am as fresh as can be to Blender, using it to make storyboards and despite my recent kerfuffle (details below) I am generally pleased with the inexpensive opportunity to previsualize my movie in the software. I am - however - as much in a learning curve as everyone else and to me as a beginner some inner workings of Blender don't come naturally. I may add here that I work with AFter Effects day in and out on motion design and compositing-heavy VFX-projects. I am more at home in the 2D and Layer based world for now.
NOW ON TO MY PROBLEM: Having animated two armature-rigged characters to a specific pose, I now want to get to the next pose by reseting both characters to the rest position, then applying the rest posisition to the pose position via the 'Apply Visual Transformation to Pose' (for this specific pose it's wise to go back to the Rest Pose as it is way closer to the new pose I want). The change does happen but there is no keysframe created and as soon as I move backwards in the timeline the reset is gone. Same happens when I switch to Object mode and move the playerhead or when I insert a keyframe manually. I reckon there is some logic of Blender that I don't get at the moment, so thanks for your patience in advance.
Greets, Matt