create handheld camera movement in post

[Joe Paolo]

Drop your clips into motion and right click on the postion attribute in the inspector and select randomize. You’ll have to size the clip up slightly to keep it all in frame.

joe

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, you can use keyframes on the center parameter in the motion tab.

Your mileage may vary and you might need some serious tweaking, of which in FCP is tough to do. It’s hard to get smooth keyframes in FCP.

After Effects would be great for this.

Jeremy

[Joe Paolo]

I’m Sorry, I ment “Motion” the program.

joe

[David Bogie]

In any case, AE, Motion or FCP, you will need to scale your clip up to about 110-120% to cover the fact that, as you move it around the frame, you will see the edge of the clip.

This is generally not a good practice unless you add some other effects such as blurs, motion blur, some scan line, video schmutz like snow or tracking errors to help hid the magnification.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Matt Callac]

[bogiesan] “In any case, AE, Motion or FCP, you will need to scale your clip up to about 110-120% to cover the fact that, as you move it around the frame, you will see the edge of the clip”
Not when using photos and such as I believe the OP is using, as he mentioned using FCP to pan the images. It’s very likely these stills are much larger than video frame to allow for pans and scales in post. Also I’d use “Motion” with a randomize behavior as alread suggested. you can tweak the filter ever so much each time so they don’t all look the same.
-mattyc

[Bjørn Holmgren]

And here comes the obligatory “Shake is perfect for this” post:-)
Anyway, Shake is perfect for this. You can use the Camerashake node, or track a real handheld shot to animate your image.

[Katie Cooper]

Hi Joe,
Thanks for the tip. Is there a way to do this similarly in AE?
thanks

[David Bogie]

> b-roll stills of movie posters and such, and we would like to have the feeling of someone shooting the movie poster hand held, kinda shakey, instead of using boring pans and tilts in final cut pro.< > [bogiesan] “In any case, AE, Motion or FCP, you will need to scale your clip up to about 110-120% to cover the fact that, as you move it around the frame, you will see the edge of the clip”
Not when using photos and such as I believe the OP is using, as he mentioned using FCP to pan the images. It’s very likely these stills are much larger than video frame to allow for pans and scales in post. < I guess that depends on how we read the OP's use of the industry standard term "b-roll" which are not stills but must, by definition, be movies of stills. Wht he realy means, as you say, is that he will be using these still images as b-roll, not that he has b-roll of the images. bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”