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Smooth keyframing in FCP
As a girl throws up her hands into the air, want to have a graphic or full frame of video “swoop” up and
out to a full screen mode. Do I incorporate a “basic 3d” filter for the Z axis? Have been working with
the “ease in/out keyframe settings under the basic “motion” tab in FCP BUT I still get that “ping-pong
effect where the move I want changes direction (Z-space) abruptly. Can anyone point out a good
step-by-step tutorial on this? I’m not sure on which parameters I should place the “smooth” keyframe
command. Now the effect just looks like the old “Pong” video game. Sorry, I’m “dating” mysellf with
that reference.
Thanks,D’s Video
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6 Replies
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Motion or After Effects are much better suited for this.
Have a wonderful day.
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I agree with Chris. I mostly use Motion for this, but if you want to understand why you get the ping pong effect Shane Ross has a good video tutorial on it, the secret is adjusting the nodes in the Canvas for your X & Y axis, the Scale is adjusted in the Motion Tab (the tutorial is on Photo Stills, but its hopefully the answer needed for with your moving video)
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/movement_on_stills.php
hope that helps
Victor
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This tutorial is nice for another take on the effect. But agreed, it’s good to understand the ease in/out nodes in FCP.
https://www.rippletraining.com/movies/Free Downloads/motion_kburns_redux_960.mov
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Motion is better for this….and you already have that. Smooth keyframing in FCP is…tricky. Not impossible, but tricky.
Shane
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I think the word shane is looking for is annoying… ease keyframes in FCP are annoying especially if you want scale movement to ease out and stop together.
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Thanks to you Victor, Chris, Tom and Shane! I will check out the
tutorials, AND even though I’ve been editing with FCP over 1 year,
our staff is so busy just “making the sausage” as we call it with
commercials, we have only “grazed” the surface of Motion 3.
Have purchased the Apple training series dvd and book and have
just installed it, so this is my “summer project”.
Thanks,
AgainD’s Video
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