Crop AND Ken Burns on one image?

[Oliver Peters]

Buy Digital Heaven’s DH BoxX plug-in. Lets you control scale and cropping in one effect.

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_boxx

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Alex Gollner]

You could use a free effect to crop the picture before using the Ken Burns effect.

There’s one on my blog.

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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[Bill Davis]

Or…

if the borders are solid color, use a key to make em transparent…

or batch the photos in Graphics Converter to crop off the borers and re-import them clean.

Always many roads to get to the same place in the great world of editing!

Personally, if the borders or the photos themselves are random sizes or aspect ratios, I’d go the key route since you wouldn’t have to customize the crops for each photo – but YMMV.

Good luck.

“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor

[Michael Garber]

Hey Brad,

I just did a little test. Try this. From the timeline, select the picture and “open in timeline.” Apply the crop to the image at full resolution. Now go back to the main timeline ( cmd-[ ) and apply the Ken Burns effect.

If you have a bunch of images at the same resolution that require the same crop, you could copy the image that you’ve cropped and paste the crop effect to the other images in their timelines.

Hope it works and let us know what you decide on.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company

[Eric Santiago]

I do believe you apply the same crop across multiple selections in a timeline. I know you can with basic transforms.
No where hear FCPX at the moment to prove this.

[Andy Neil]

This is actually really simple in case you don’t want to bother with a plugin. Apply the crop to your photo first. Then select the clip and hit OPT+G to make it a compound clip. Then apply the ken burns effect to the compound.

Andy

https://www.timesavertutorials.com

[Michael Garber]

Hey Andy,

I thought about doing it this way, but there are two problems. First is your new compound clip is set to your timeline dimensions, not the original image dimensions. Second, you lose the ability to slip and extend handles. You’d have to go into the compound clip to change the duration. If you have dissolves already set, this could throw your timeline off.

I think, given this scenario, your better bet is to open the still image in it’s own timeline (from the primary timeline), first. Change the crop. Then go back and apply the Ken Burns.

I wonder how Ken Burns, the person, feels about being applied to all our movies without even being asked properly. 😉 Maybe he could make a documentary about it.

Michael Garber
5th Wall – a post production company

[Brad Baker]

[Alex Gollner] “You could use a free effect to crop the picture before using the Ken Burns effect.

There’s one on my blog.
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Alex, that seems to be the best solution for me so far.

Thank you sir!
Brad

[Alex Gollner]

In the UK, rostrum moves would be known by a different Ken: Ken Morse.

His name appeared in the end credits of almost every TV show with any kind of pan and zoom effect on a picture from the 70s to the 90s.

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Alexandre Gollner,
Editor, Zone 2-North West, London

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[Richard Vitale]

Hi there, I see no “open in timeline” upon right-clicking. Could you pls be more specific. Thx!