• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  How to match the zoom across multiple still images of different sizes/durations

  Posted by Nico Scott on June 23, 2011 at 1:09 am

  Hi all,

  I’ve done a bit of searching around and can’t find a clear answer to a something I think is probably fairly straight forward.

  I’m cutting together an animatic/storyboard made up of stills images and want to put a very slow zoom on each image that is exactly the same speed on each. I’m aware of how do this using the scale function and setting key frames, but as each image runs for a different duration and also has different dimensions it seems very tedious to get them to look similar. Plus I keep needing to change the anchor/center point as to make sure it always zooms into the center of the image.

  I know i could nest all the images and zoom across the entire sequence but then you obviously start clipping significant parts of the clips later in the sequence.

  If not in fcp, is this something that would be easy to do in AE or Motion?

  Any help would be much appreciated.

  Cheers,
  Nico

  Nico Scott replied 15 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tony Silanskas

  June 23, 2011 at 2:35 am

  A couple ideas:

  – Make each photo the exact starting size you want then make each individual photo its own nest. Then you can set the zoom for one nest and Copy with Scaling turned to all the others

  – Convert all photos to same width or height. You could then Copy with Scaling turned on

  – Use iPhoto to make a slideshow. You’d have to know the exact duration and order of each photo but would work as I’ve done this a bunch

  Since all your photos are a different dimension, Final Cut doesn’t have any easy options.

  tony

  http://www.HungryCliff.com
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  Nico Scott

  June 23, 2011 at 2:46 am

  Thanks for your response Tony, I’ll give the nesting idea a go.

  If i can get by without resizing all the images it would save me a heap of time!

  Cheers,
  Nico

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