I've been able to pan-and-zoom of still images using keyframes in FCP but the result is awkward and I still haven't figured out the "ease in" and "ease out" options (seems like either the beginning or the end of the pan is effected but not the other). Is Apple's Motion a good program for this? If not, do you have a recommendation?
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Tue, May 27, 2008 - 5:47 PM -
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Tue, May 27, 2008 - 6:33 PM
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Tue, May 27, 2008 - 9:12 PMI find that FCP works perfectly for what you describe.
Practice, practice, practice! -
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Wed, May 28, 2008 - 3:38 PMI am certainly willing to just use FCP but have not found an way to apply "ease in" and "ease out" to the movement. I know how to zoom and move around inside the photos but don't like how the movement suddenly starts and stops. Do you know where I could find an understandable description of how to do this. The manual isn't clear. -
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Wed, May 28, 2008 - 5:10 PM
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Thu, May 29, 2008 - 2:35 PMYou want to use the Pen Smooth tool to add bezier handles to your keyframes. (You can also right click on keyframes to add a smooth point.) Properly applied, they will iron out the abrupt starts and stops you describe.
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Fri, May 30, 2008 - 12:21 PMthat is valuable advice Allen, and also quite funny because it took me almost 6 years of using FCP before I discovered the bezier handles! ha! It was such a "doh!" moment that I was almost too embarrassed to admit it to my motion graphics cohort... we definitely giggled about it. heheh. But such is the way with a powerful software tool like ours. I've been using FCP for 8+ years now and I'm still learning new things all the time. Same with photoshop. So yes, as Allen said, keep on practicing! It's the only way you will move towards mastery of the tool...
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Fri, May 30, 2008 - 9:39 PMOkay, I'm firing up the program to try that. As I remember, the bezier handles would slow the beginning but not the end or vice versa. It seemed incredibly awkward to me. But...I'm not sure I used "pen smooth" -
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Sat, May 31, 2008 - 12:20 AMI'm still having trouble. Are you using the "pen smooth" tool in the canvas (with the wireframe) or the viewer? In the canvas I can apply "ease in" to the start of a pan but then it doesn't stop smoothly. -
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Sat, May 31, 2008 - 4:03 PMYou want to use them in the viewer's Motion tab where the motion keyframes are. Right-click on a motion keyframe (after adding some keyframes, of course), and choose Smooth to add a bezier handle -- or you can use the Smooth pen tool to add one. Then you can play with it until you get the setting you like.
By the way, a great trick is to grab the Motion tab and drag it to your timeline -- it will open up a much larger version of your Motion tab so that you can operate upon it more easily. -
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Re: Best method for pan-and-zoom (Ken Burns effect)
Mon, June 2, 2008 - 7:13 AMReally, thanks. I'll try it later today. I had thought that pan-and-zoom was to be done with wireframes in the canvas. There is an "ease in, out" option when you right click on a motion path in the canvas but seems to only work on the beginning or end point. I'll try the technique you suggest.
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