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Alex4D Smooth Move effect: Ease in and out clip animation controls
This is for smoothing out clip animation.
Use it to animate from one point to another. Control position, rotation and scale.
It defaults to easing into the animation and easing out again, which makes some animations less jerky.
You can also choose when during the clip you want the animation to start and end.
Here are the controls:
The scale parameter can also be set to change exponentially – to make scaling down from a large size look more realistic.
Behind the scenes for Motion 5 effects authors
For those creating Motion effects, you might like to open this one. I’ve labelled layers, behaviours and effects to explain how I’ve set things up.
You can add the Link behaviour to rigs you create. That means that if you rig a behaviour (such as Ramp), you can link the value of the rig to the On Screen Controls of a filter of your choice.
In this case, I wanted the on screen controls to manipulate a couple of the Ramp parameters – the start and finish X and Y co-ordinates. You can’t directly Link a behaviour’s parameter to anything else, so I rigged the parameters I wanted to control and applied the Link behaviour to the new rig.
I used Ramp instead of Move and Grow/Shrink because I wanted to control when the position, rotation and scale parameters are modified.
It doesn’t make much sense in English, so explore the project to see how it works.
By the way, you can reduce the size of the Motion templates you create by making your own png preview images for the template folder. I usually don’t include the ‘large.png’ (the effects work fine without it), but if you create your own pngs and save them as PNG-8, the ZIP size reduces a lot. This makes sense in this case as the automatically generated preview .pngs didn’t illustrate the nature of the effect at all.
Have fun,
Alex
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Alex, thank you… this is brilliant… just what I was looking for. Nice OSC, and the ease in/out is great!
One question/request: can you build in a delay control for the start of the effect (within the clip) and a control for ending the move before the end of the clip? Can size be also an OSC (but that is not very important)?
Again, thank you very much.
Eli
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The delay control is labelled as Start % and End %
The animation in this case will start 45% in, and conclude 85% from the start.
Alex
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Alex… I was just going to write you that I discovered the “delay” sliders… (I am laughing)…
Thanks again!
Eli
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Brilliant – exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks so much. I knew you’d be able to work this one out!
Simon Ubsdell
Director/Editor/Writer
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Thankyouthankyouthankyou! Scaling, positioning and rotating with proper ease in and out has never worked for me in FCP7. I had to use Digital Heaven’s DH_BOX as a workaround. But now you made it work in X, and its free – simply excellent!
Martin Steimann
Filmmaker
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Very useful, thank you!
Could you please also make a smooth crop, for advanced Ken Burns?Have a nice weekend,
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Could you define that in a little more detail.
I could create an effect that defines two sets of crop co-ordinates and provide a smooth curve option between them. Is that what you mean?
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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, Londonalex4d on twitter, facebook, .wordpress.com & .com
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Yes, kind of, as I suppose the build-in KenBurns works this way. What was interesting is if I could add one or two keyframes in between, as if I use the crop-tool to set additional keyframes, I don’t get no smoothing. Not really satisfying. :=)
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