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best program for Ken Burns effect and text panning?
What is the best program for the panning and zooming you see in the Ken Burns documentaries? I have text and pictures to pan and zoom in/out on. I know how to do it in Final Cut Pro. I was wondering if there is another program that does it much better ? Any pointers? What’s the best way to go about doing this?
Also, when I drag the image left or right I always go up or down a little. Is there a way to make sure I’m going straight across without ultra precise mouse dragging (which is close to impossible)?
Thanks so much in advance, I appreciate any kind of response.
Zeke
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I’d use After Effects. You could probably do it in Motion too, but I’ve never used it for that.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You can get a free plug in from Noise Industry.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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We bought a plug-in called Moving Picture, which can run stand-alone on another computer while you keep working on an edit with your NLE, or just work within your NLE as a plug-in.
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YOu can do it in FCP (tutorial): Movement on Stills
You can do it in Motion (tutorial): https://www.rippletraining.com/movies/Free%20Downloads/motion_kburns_redux_960.mov
Shane
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Ok but is there a reason I’d want to use After Effects or Motion over doing it in Final Cut Pro? I haven’t really seen the end result of the ones I’ve experimented with in FCP so I don’t know how they’re going to look, but I’m curious to know if I should be using another program instead and why.
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Thanks so much. I will check out the Motion tutorial. I never used Motion before..
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FCP doesn’t ease into the movement, or out of the movement smoothly at all. Jerky start and stop. Very bad. I use it when I don’t start a move, or settle on a pic. Otherwise, I use After Effects or Motion…much smoother when settling.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
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Thanks! Can’t wait to try it.
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Folks,
I am a bit biased, but use the free Pan & Zoom plugin from Noise Industries. Keeps it all within FCP and is very easy to use with a setup mode. The guys should really charge for this one as it has some cool features like quadratic in/out acceleration.
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For banging out lots of these quickly I like fotomagico.
Andrew Wilson
WestView Digital Video & Design
http://www.westviewdigital.com
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