Q: Can't get smooth pan/zooms using keyframes
I’ve just bought FCPX (10.2) and am trying to learn it and switch over from FCP 7. In playing around with X so far, I was disappointed to find that Apple apparently still hasn’t found a way to do smooth pan/zooms using keyframes—unless there’s some control or technique I haven’t discovered yet.
The Ken Burns Crop feature is OK, but it runs the full length of a clip. What I want to do is open on a still shot (a photo), hold on it for a while, then gently zoom in on some detail of the picture and stop and hold there for a while, all done smoothly.
Trying to do this with keyframes (keying both scale and position) does not give me a smooth result—the motion path waves around near the beginning and end, in a sort of S-curve., and the starts and stops are abrupt. (The “smooth" control seems to make no improvement).
Assuming that this is the best FCPX can do, can anyone recommend any third-party plugins that can provide smooth Ken Burns-style pan/zooms in FCPX?
Tom
Posted on Nov 10, 2015 8:06 PM
Oops.
We are on the wrong page.
The reverse button I'm discussing is part of the Ken Burns window:
This button simply applies the direction of the KB effect form Start/End to End/Start.
Al
Posted on Nov 12, 2015 4:38 PM


