Ease in ease out in FCP, is there an easy way?

[Rich Rubasch]

I do wish Apple would rework that whole keyframe thing and timeline adjustments. It’s a wacky keyframe world in FCP when you come from an After Effects background.

I think even Avid wins the keyframe battle…barely.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media

[Ron James]

I’ve found the ease-in/out for motion has always been faulty in FCP. Not sure if that’s the case in recent versions, but it used to be that x and y values would compete at the final frame, creating a bump. Someone smarter than me could explain it better, but I’ve found much better results with other 3rd party plugins.

Not sure if this is what you’re referring to exactly?

[Shane Ross]

I have to agree with that. Ease in and Out I have only gotten to work right once. And I don’t know how I did it, and I can’t replicate it.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s much easier to do this in the viewer and zoom WAY in (apple +) so you can see the little purple dots and adjust those (and no you are not hallucinating you are, in fact, seeing purple dots). Of course this is only for moves that are a combination up/down/left/right. Still, it kinda sucks and is not quite right if you need finely tuned moves. If you are trying to mimic AE, it’s hard and take your time. If you are adjusting scale and trying to ease, then you are stuck with whatever FCP calculates as smooth, if you try and adjust smooth you will get one f’ed up curve.

[Chris Babbitt]

Amen to that! What’s the big deal about just coasting to a stop?

[Chi-ho Lee]

It is certainly a bear to work with. I almost never use it to ease in on a full stop. I try to throw in a dissolve at the end to hide the sharp stop or a bumpy stop.

Anyone tried using Motion to pan and scan on stills? Should integrate better than using AE. And Motion has all the ease in/put preset like AE.

-CHL

Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com

[Chris Poisson]

Well,

Since my original post I screwed around with it and got it to work, I had to very carefully drag the dang bezier handles IN AN ABLOLUTELY STRAIGHT LINE toward the center where the keyframe is, and got the pic to move straight and stop smoothly. But it is a total pain in the ass.

I wonder which 3rd party plugins mentioned above do this better? I too, have been spoiled by ease in and out in AE.

Thanks all…

[Jeremy Garchow]

Pan Zoom PRo by Lyric is okay, but a little clunky.

https://www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/panzoompro/pzp.htm

They have a demo you can try. Motion might be your best bet. Or do like Chi-Ho (and it’s the same technique I use) and never bring your footage to a stop.

There’s moving picture that I’ve never tried:

https://www.stagetools.com/

[Joe Paolo]

Motion works great. You can tweak the scale and transform curves for very precise control. It does take longer to make a move. I usually do the simple drifts with the FCP motion tab and leave only the complex smooth-landing moves for Motion.

joe

[Chris Poisson]

Jeremy,

Funny, I have PZP but I just didn’t think to try it for the more complicated moves I’m doing in this 1 minute piece, which is a super rush job. Maybe I’ll try it on the last :15 seconds, which we’re doing this morning.

Thanks!