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Doing a simple zoom on a still image
Hello
I need some advice on zooming in on a still image. Basically I want to just go from framing A (wide) to framing B (close). I know how to set up scale and center keyframes in the viewer. But this makes a rather harsh start and stop – the motion starts and ends rather abruptly.
When I used to do this in After Effects, I would just use the “easy ease in/out” feature on the keyframes and it would work perfectly, especialy for doing quick and (not so) dirty still image zooms/pans. The default setting often worked just fine.
In Final Cut, I figured out that you can “smooth” the scale keyframes by control-clicking on them in the viewer. But for some reason, you can’t smooth the centering (position) keyframes. And so what happens is, the scaling is smoothed, but the position isn’t and so the picture wiggles and swoops all over the place before arriving at the destination.
Any tips on how to handle this? Or is there a better way? It seems a common thing to do, and it’d be really convenient to do it in the FCP timeline, instead of having to go back to After Effects. I do have Motion as well, but am just getting started learning that.
thanks a lot
Mike -
2 Replies
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What I do is turn on Image Plus Wire Frame in the canvas (third drop down menu on the top of the canvas window.) After you ease the in and out by right clicking on your start and end points, you get some handles for everything you want to do.
Look in the manual if you will be doing this a lot as you can get tricky with tools and such to do everything from this window, which is a pretty intuitive way to work.
I hope this helps.
Tom
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Thanks for the reply! I’ll give it a try. I will also post my question in the regular FCP forum to see if I get any alternate ideas. (I am unsure whether this is a “basics” question or not!) Thanks again
Mike
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