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Gradual speed change on PHOTOS
Hi
I’m editing a documentary and I am having trouble doing a very simple effect of zooming in and out of photos!
Start from say 100%size and slowly zoom in and ramp speed down smoothly to a stop at say 200%size.
Its very common style in documentaries! Why cant I figure this out!!!?I can get that effect using apples Motion, but then I cant freeze it at the final destination.
In anycase, final cut pro should be able to do this SIMPLE job.
Anyone? I’ve been editing for 8 years, so I’m super surprised I cant do this….
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I have never been able to get FCP to animate anything as smoothly as I would like. I have a client that has me edit a LOT of videos that are animated photos. I do all of my photo animation in After Effects, render the QT movies, and then import them into FCP.
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You were on the right track with Motion it sounds like… You can scale with keyframes, or grow/shrink behavior. You just need to apply the Hold Frame behavior (being mindful of your in and out points for that, set your IN exactly where you want it to freeze) or if using keyframes, just add a bezier (in the keyframes tab) to ease out.
In FCP, it’s all in your Motion tab. Set keyframe for 100%, further down the timeline set a 2nd keyframe for 200% (it should now scale). Right-click on the 2nd keyframe and designate “smooth”. Now you have a bezier-handle that will ease out your motion move (feel free to adjust).
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[julian stewart] “I can get that effect using apples Motion, but then I cant freeze it at the final destination.”
Why can’t you freeze? I do this often…Motion is fine for this sort of thing. As is After Effects.
Here is a quick tutorial for Motion:
https://www.rippletraining.com/movies/Free%20Downloads/motion_kburns_redux_960.mov
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You can do this just fine if FCP. Just right click on the Canvas keyframe and choose > Ease In/Out. By the way, scaling to 200%, you will lose image quality. Better to clean your image at a higher frame size and scale from, say, 50% – 100%.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
THATS THE ANSWER I WAS LOOKING FOR KEVIN!!!
Thank you.
Additionally buy changing the keyframes in the viewer to ‘smooth’ makes it even better.Kevin, the 100% to 200% was just an example. Relax.
Thanks
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You’ll find doing this in FCP is fine as long as you want to simply scale – but anything more complex, like a move, won’t work as FCP can’t smooth all parameters.
I recently cut a doc with around 200 archive stills, and motion did a wonderful job. You just need to get your head around what you need to keyframe…
Jason
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