[Allen Huffman]

I have never looked for Final Cut Pro X, so I don’t know if the $400 package I found still applies, or if there are newer ones.

[Allen Huffman]

Melissa (and anyone else who finds this via Google),

I have worked out a simple way to simulate a storybook style page flip just using Final Cut Express and the stock Page Peel transition. It is not perfect — the curl of the page changes in the middle (which a physical book wouldn’t do) and it doesn’t line up over the center, but it gives the appearance of a book page flip.

To do this, I created two sequences, then put them together in one sequence with a background image, and then use that in my final sequence. If text is to be on the pages, you’d want a sequence for each page with text.

Items needed:

page.png (front side of a page graphic)
page_back.png (back side of a page, in my case, the page flipped horizontally)

Sequence 1: “FCE Page Turn right” (the right page)

Page.png (front) graphic, stretched out to fill the ENTIRE screen (important!!!), with Page Peel applied to it. I expanded the time of Page Turn to 2 seconds over a 3 second total image clip. In the Page Peel effect, I set it as follows:

Start – 0%
End – 100%
Direction – (-90)
Radius – 160 (to make it flat as possible)
Highlight – 20 (your preference)
Peel – checked (what does this do, anyway?)
Back – the page_back.png image

Sequence 2: “FCE Page Turn left” (the left page)

Page_back.png graphic, tretched out to fill the ENTIRE screen (important!!!), with Page Peel applied to it. For timing purposes, I made the graphics clip 2 seconds with the Page Peel effect on top of it also 2 seconds (so just the flip). I will be looping mine (page after page) and didn’t want more than a 5 second time between them, but this can be set to whatever you need.

Start – 0%
End – 100%
Direction – 90 (positive here, to reverse the flip direction)
Radius – 160 (to make it flat as possible)
Highlight – 20 (your preference)
Peel – checked (what does this do, anyway?)
Back – the page.png image (front)

Now I have two full screen sequences, one shows a full page that is anchored on the left of the screen (book center, right page) and peels from right to left. The other is anchored on the right of the screen (book center, left page) and peels right to left, as well.

Page Turn composite sequence:

This one is just both clips back to back (right, then left), and I go in to each one and “Open in Editor” then squish it so right is just the right half of the screen, and left is just the left half. That turns my full screen page flips to half page flips.

The completed sequence is a page turn. Here is a YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBkVAeixLn8

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[Allen Huffman]

I realize this is an old question, but I am posting this here since Google led me to this topic and maybe others will do the same thing.

From a few hours of research last night, I found one “off the shelf” Final Cut plug-in (which also works in Final Cut Express) that does the book page turn, folding from the center. It is in the FxStudio from Noise Industries. It is exactly what I am after (for a projection effect, animating a physical storybook prop in a Haunted House attraction).

But, it only comes as part of a $400 package, so I am back to the drawing board. I have seen this effect many times in photo slide show progarms, so my next quest is to find one of those, render all my pages ahead of time as graphics files, then export the slideshow to a movie and go from there.

We shall see.

(If I could just make the Apple page turn effect work on half a page, I would be set. I am hoping to fake it by rendering two different animated flips, then merging them together split screen.)