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Key Framing question
Hi Guys,
I have a JPEG or still image that I’m trying to move across the screen and I’ve hit the center position on in the motion tab where I want the move to begin and moved my play head to where I want the move to end and hit center again.
When I play the clip and or slide the play head back and forth I see the move the way I’d like it to work. My problem is its jerky when it moves across and I’m trying to get the smooth function to pop up but when I right click on the key frame I only get “clear” as on option.
Any Idea what I’m doing wrong?
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6 Replies
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Hi Carlos, I feel your pain! There are no ease in/ease out controls on the x/y position, only on the scale attribute.
Unless there is something that I’m missing, there isn’t an easy way to achieve this. Maybe someone knows of a third party plug in?
Matt Lyon
Editor
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If you have wireframes viewable you can right click on the keyframe in the canvas and choose Ease In/Ease Out, which also gives you a bezier handle.
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SWEET! Thanks Dave… and boy do I feel stupid 🙂 I’d given up on the possibility of doing this years ago.
Matt Lyon
Editor
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Ok, cool thanks guys. If I can’t get it to work I’ll use motion. Its funny though that I’ve seen this in a FCP promo when I got the software and the guy in the promo was able to do it, anyway thanks for the help.
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Well, I tried that and its starts the move smoother but the rest of the key frames are herky jerky across the screen and then it eases itself to a smooth stop.
So it fixes the start and stop but not the move along the way.
I guess I’ll have to try motion then.Thanks
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Hi Carlos, I followed Dave’s tip and got smooth motion after just a bit of tweaking. Are you looking at your output on a broadcast monitor? You can’t necessarily judge motion properly in the FCP viewer. You can also turn on “motion blur” in the “motion” tab and tweak those settings to help take the edge off fast panning and zooming effects.
Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto
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