Ronny Courtens
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JJ has done amazing things but he has also been amazingly arrogant and in some ways total blind to how the industry works.
Agreed. OTOH if you only go with how the industry has always worked you never will be able to do anything as revolutionary as RED has done. We all know how “established” people can react when they feel they are drawn out of their comfort zones, so sometimes a little arrogance can help to stir things up. This is not a bad thing as long as your new product really turns out to be a valid option for your target customers in the end.
– Ronny
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Hi John,
Are you sure this is what you want to do?
The KB effect is intended to always fill your image in the Viewer while panning/zooming in or out on the image. That’s why the FCPX “Ken Burns” animation will always take the aspect ratio from your Project. If your Project is 4:3 the aspect ratio of both the Start and End selection frames will be 4:3, ensuring that the boundaries of your start and end selections will always fill the Project frame.
If you want to change the aspect of your image (i.e. crop it) while doing a KB-style animation you can do this manually by keyframing the Crop parameters in the Crop tool, but your image will gradually be cropped during the animation, which will look pretty awkward.
So I think what you really want to do is to zoom out from a 16:9 still and fit it completely in your 4:3 frame at the end of your animation, leaving black borders top and bottom of your image. Is that correct?
If this is the case that’s not a Ken Burns effect, that’s a simple zoom out effect and you can easily achieve this by keyframing the Scale and Position parameters in the Transform tool:
1. Select your still on the timeline and press SHIFT+T to activate the Transform tool.
2. Put your playhead where you want your animation to start on the Timeline and adjust the Transform overlay in the Viewer to set the start position and framing of your animation.
You can either drag and position the Transform overlay in the Viewer, or you can modify the Position and Scale parameters in the Inspector > Video > Transform section.
3. When you have set your start position and framing press the little diamond top left of your Viewer (between the two little arrows) to add a start keyframe for your animation.
4. Put your playhead where you want your animation to end on the Timeline and adjust the Transform overlay in the Viewer to set the end position and framing of your animation.
You can either drag and position the Transform overlay in the Viewer, or you can modify the Position and Scale parameters in the Inspector > Video > Transform section.
5. When you have set your end position and framing press the Done button top left of your Viewer and play your animation.
If you want to make any changes to your start and/or end position and scale: just select the clip in your Timeline and press SHIFT+T to activate the Transform tool again. Now you can use the little arrows top left of your Viewer to take you to the start or end frames and modify the position and scale of your start or end frames in the Viewer and/or the Inspector. When you are done with your changes press the Done button again.
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Adding to what Andreas said:
If you want to use such a title and you don’t have Motion to modify it you can still resize the title in the Text tab of the Inspector or change its vertical position using the Baseline slider.
– Ronny
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I remember there have been title templates that made the underlying clip move when you made adjustments to the position of the title in its Video tab. What version of FCPX are you running?
– Ronny
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On a serious note, how great would it be if FCPX ditched effect stacking and switched to a nodal pipeline for effects and transformations.
That’s what Smoke 2013 does. It’s phenomenal and it works perfectly together with FCPX. We love it. No emptiness in our house (-:
– Ronny
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LOL!!
– Ronny
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I have heard of this issue. When you move the video cuts by one or more frames do the clicks go away?
– Ronny
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Pegasus speed test seems okay to me. Are you experiencing any other slowdowns besides when exporting? How full is your system drive?
– Ronny
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[Mark Dobson] “It’s the debate part of it that makes it interesting… it has become a real contender to provide broadcast and other top end solutions.”
Good point. And now that I think of it: opinions about FCPX have indeed changed a lot since this debate started. So yes, I agree.
– Ronny
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What Mark says. Plus if you find pressing three keys a bit too much for a common operation you can always create an easier keyboard shortcut for this.
– Ronny