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EASE IN/EASE OUT on PHOTO MOVES (Damn it, Tina!)
Working on a doc where we are going to do all photo moves in FCP. I told the producer no problem (because these are all basic push ins/pull outs). The EASE IN/EASE OUT keyframe control works great when you are just pushing in straight. But if you are pushing in AND changing the center point, (ie: if you have two subjects in the pic and then you zoom in to focus on one face) the photo does a weird little “sway” before coming to it’s final resting place — which we don’t want.
Has anyone else experienced this? Can it be “corrected”? I had another FCP editor try it last night in his room and he kept getting the same result.
I emailed Larry Jordan (larryjordan.biz) and he recommended I get a plug in. Can anyone recommend one? Is there something called “motion picture” plug in?Thanks for your help all… this is such a minor, traditional effect, I didn’t expect FCP to glitch it — or is it me?
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Nope…FCP stinks when it comes to EASE IN and EASE OUT. I have NEVER had luck with them. Some people may have, but it sure isn’t intuitive.
For EASE IN and OUT, I use After Effects or Motion. Motion will do this very easily and quickly. And unlike After Effects, it is FREE with FCS.
Shane
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I have had the same exact problem when trying to do a zoom/position change on a still in the Final Cut Pro timeline. I switched to making moves on stills with Motion. (The software that comes bundled with Final Cut Studio, not the Viewer window tab in Final Cut Pro). If you set a start and end keyframe for both position and scale, you can then set their interpolations to “bezier” in the Keyframe Editor. This will do a nice ease in/ease out motion for you, with no slipping and sliding. You can render a movie right out of Motion, or else drop the Motion project file into your Final Cut timeline and render there.
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Motion works fine, but if you are committed to staying in FCP for whatever reason your best bet is a generator plugin called PanZoomPro from lyric.com Wonderful ease controls and no keyframes required. Takes a bit longer to render but it’s worth it.
Also, if you are doing sections of photos only that all need to move, I HIGHLY recommend Fotomagico. It is blazingly fast, renders beautifully, all you need are timings for your stills movies and you’ll be done in no time. Real timesaver. I animated over 100 stills last weekend in less than 2 hours, including the renders.
Have a wonderful day.
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GUYS, THANK YOU ALL thus far… this is helpful.
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Hey Shane & Mike,
Thanks for the info. I tried Motion and, at first, it seemed to do the SAME THING. Finally, I got a good “ease out” by setting all keyframes to “ease out” rather than “bezier”. BUT STILL, after the last keyframe, there’s an ever so slight but ever so noticeable movement (like a small amount of movement and slight zoom out – like 5 pixels maybe.
Any advice? Using Motion would be great but we were disappointed to discover yet another motion “misbehavior”. All we want is a simple zoom in, change center point to focus on specific area of photo, ease out.HOWEVER — Chris…. we tried the demo for PAN ZOOM PRO (lyric.com) and were VERY pleased with the results — smooth, nice. Easy to use once you get the swing of it and simpler and more cost efficient than going to After Effects. This may be the way to go.
It’s a real shame the the ease in/ease out directly in FCP doesn’t work the way you’d think it would.
Thanks guys,
Steve
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