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easing keyframes
how do you ease in and ease out of keyframes in final cut?
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Not well…if at all. This is very difficult to do, but you can try. OPTION-CLICK on your keyframe and choose EASE. But dollars to donughts it won’t work. It sucks.
If you want to ease things, you need to use Motion or After Effects.
IMHO.
Shane
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to be more specific, i’m looking for a way to ease keyframes that are put on the “center point” in the motion tab for my footage. i can do it on the “scale” keyframes (it’s called ‘smooth’ i guess) but i can’t do it for the center point.
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You have to manipulate the handles of the motion path in the viewer. It’s a bear, and produces less than stellar results, which is why I second the notion of using Motion of AEfx.
If you have two or more keyframes with different ‘center’ values, you’ll see a motion path in the canvas. Its a line linking the centers of the keyframes. Each keyframe with have handles that can be manipulated. With only 2 kyfrms, it can be tough to find them because they will lie along the path itself.
Anyway, once you’ve found the handles, you can adjust the ease-in/ease-out-iness of the move by moving the handle closer or further from the keyframe center point.
Good luck!
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Are you guys on crack? Everyone says, “Oh yeah, FCP sucks for that” and then gives horrible information about how to actually pull it off. Guess what? I ease keyframes and create motion paths all the time in FCP and they are just fine. The time it takes to “just go to After Effects”, just isn’t worth it if you can do the same job in FCP.
How to? You ease Center (position) keyframes in the Canvas. Right click on the keyframes there and choose Ease In/Out.
It works just fine if you know how to tweak the easing, which you can do by dragging the purple dot (called acceleration handles) on the bezier handle.
Read my book on this one!
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
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Kevin, you have the magic touch. Because I have your book and I have tried doing this (the book is how I discovered this is possible) but I have NEVER gotten smooth results. And yes, I am grabbing the right thing. No, the amount of time it takes me to try getting this right is better spent doing this in another application that does it better, like Motion.
Glad it works for you though. I really wish it worked for me.
Shane
GETTING ORGANIZED WITH FINAL CUT PRO DVD…don’t miss it.
Read my blog, Little Frog in High Def -
Sorry I didn’t use the proper term for ‘acceleration handles’, but that’s exactly what I told Mark to do. I thought I was pretty clear, though perhaps I could have been clearer.
I wasn’t addressing whether it’s worth the effort in a larger sense to do something in AE or Motion vs FCP – that’s up to Mark to decide. Now at least he knows how to do it.
In my experience simple moves with just a few keyframes are fine to do in FCP. For me in these cases the overhead of switching app’s isn’t worth it. But when I need a complex move to be just right, AE makes it just so much easier to accomplish what I want. To each his own.
Although I am not a crack smoker, I appreciated the plug for your book. I’ll definitely check it out.
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Someone’s on crack. I don’t know if its me but when I go to “Basic Motion”, “Center”, there is NO keyframes line like there is for rotation and scale…the keyframes I make are floating in the same vertical grey space with nothing connecting them and when you right click on the keyframe, the only option is “Clear”.
I film big machines that wreck a lot of sh#t.
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Easing of the ‘center’ parameter isn’t accomplished in the ‘motion’ tab of the Viewer. It’s done in the ‘video’ tab of the Canvas. There must be at least two key frames. If the ‘center’ value doesn’t change between keyframes, then they will appear coincident on the screen.
A workaround is to move one (or more) keyframes to a different center value. Between keyframes with different center values, a line appears in the Canvas between the center points. Right-clicking on a keyframe brings up the context menu from which you can change the interpolation to ‘smooth’. Keyframes set to ‘smooth’ have purple ‘easing’ handles. moving the handles allows some control of the ease-in/ease-out vectors. WHen you’ve set them to your liking, you can return the center value of the keyframe you’ve changed back to its original value.
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