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

[Tom Wolsky]

If you’re doing a straight line motion you don’t have to pull anything. If you add easing, acceleration and deceleration is automatically added, and it’s a pretty significant ease, unless the motion in time and space is very short. If you want to increase the values pull the inner button on the handle, not the outer one. It will not move the Bezier handle from the straight line.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Tom Wolsky]

I have to disagree with you. Motion like FCP also has no exponential scaling and does not handle large scale motion control with scale and position very well either. For those kinds of motion it is just as clunky, with as poorly controlled a motion path as FCP.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Joe Paolo]

I guess I find it easier to get what I want out of Motion than the motion tab. Plus the integration with FCP makes it very handy. I’m sure ther are better programs out there for motion control but Motion works well for me.

joe

[Ron James]

[Chris Poisson] “I wonder which 3rd party plugins mentioned above do this better?”

I used to use one that came free on one of the FCP installers (v.3, I think) called “Roll-Scroll” from CGM. This was the only way I could get smooth ease fx.

Not sure if it still comes free or not. I don’t remember seeing it on the 5.1 installer.

[Chip Whiting]

The easiest way is to use FXScript DVE’s “CGM Slide” plugin. It does an ease in that works pretty good in a hurry (like I always am!)

Chip

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[Chris Poisson]

The first problem with this feature is when you set ease in/out your motion path curves. Easy enough to straighten out. But the second part of my problem is that the clip will drift along the second half of the bezier handle and back again before heading off toward the next keyframe.

Yes, you hold down the command key to split the bezier handles, but the clip will still slide up and back no matter which way you point it. So the problem is how to shorten the second handle to nothing so the clip doesn’t slide?

Answer, and if this was in the manual I sure missed it, holding down shift/command gives you independent control of the angle AND THE LENGTH of the handles, so you can get rid of the second one and hence the annoying drift. Now I have a true ease in with speed control on the incoming clip.

As far as ease out, well, that’s going to be the next dilemma I guess.