How to add multiple "Ken Burns" effects sequentially?
I'm trying to animate panoramas, which means I want to be able to zoom in (to show the detail), pan across them, and eventually zoom out to show the full image.
Here's an example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/etherflyer/4024286662/
In iMovie HD I would import a still, use the Ken Burns animation to set start and stop for one segment, then copy that clip, reverse the start and end points, and change the new end point. I'd then copy the second clip, reverse the start and end points on that copy, and change the new end point, and so on until I had animated the sequence. This was tedious, but it ensured that the transitions between clips were seamless.
I tried two methods in FCE, but neither worked well.
I first tried importing a panorama (28983 x 2798 pixels) and setting multiple keyframes in the Motion tab, but the motion was very abrupt rather than easing in and out like the Ken Burns effect did in iMovie. I tried smoothing the Scale, but then the scaling and the position got out-of-sync and sometimes the panorama would be smaller than the full frame so black showed at some of the screen edges.
Next I tried a variation of what had worked in iMovie. I made a new project and added the panorama as a clip. I went to the beginning and adjusted the Scale and Center until it looked like I wanted, then went to the last frame and did the same. I wrote down the values for Scale and both Center boxes. (Scale 230, Center -10000, -769.86) Then I added the same panorama as a second clip, went to the beginning of the new clip, and set the Scale and Center to be the same. While the scale looked like it worked, the position of the new clip is very different from that of the first clip, even though the values look the same. I manually dragged it close to where it should be using the Canvas, but it wasn't quite right (the values in Center were a bit off). As soon as I typed in values into the Center boxes (in the Motion tab of the Viewer) the clip leaped back to the same (wrong) position it had before.
I next tried duplicating the clip (just as I had with iMovie) but couldn't find a way to reverse it (swap start and end points) and manually copying the settings for Scale and Center had the same effect as above: the position changed to one halfway across the picture!
So I confess I'm stumped. Can anyone explain this to a Bear of Very Little Brain (or point me to a good tutorial)?
Here's an example:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/etherflyer/4024286662/
In iMovie HD I would import a still, use the Ken Burns animation to set start and stop for one segment, then copy that clip, reverse the start and end points, and change the new end point. I'd then copy the second clip, reverse the start and end points on that copy, and change the new end point, and so on until I had animated the sequence. This was tedious, but it ensured that the transitions between clips were seamless.
I tried two methods in FCE, but neither worked well.
I first tried importing a panorama (28983 x 2798 pixels) and setting multiple keyframes in the Motion tab, but the motion was very abrupt rather than easing in and out like the Ken Burns effect did in iMovie. I tried smoothing the Scale, but then the scaling and the position got out-of-sync and sometimes the panorama would be smaller than the full frame so black showed at some of the screen edges.
Next I tried a variation of what had worked in iMovie. I made a new project and added the panorama as a clip. I went to the beginning and adjusted the Scale and Center until it looked like I wanted, then went to the last frame and did the same. I wrote down the values for Scale and both Center boxes. (Scale 230, Center -10000, -769.86) Then I added the same panorama as a second clip, went to the beginning of the new clip, and set the Scale and Center to be the same. While the scale looked like it worked, the position of the new clip is very different from that of the first clip, even though the values look the same. I manually dragged it close to where it should be using the Canvas, but it wasn't quite right (the values in Center were a bit off). As soon as I typed in values into the Center boxes (in the Motion tab of the Viewer) the clip leaped back to the same (wrong) position it had before.
I next tried duplicating the clip (just as I had with iMovie) but couldn't find a way to reverse it (swap start and end points) and manually copying the settings for Scale and Center had the same effect as above: the position changed to one halfway across the picture!
So I confess I'm stumped. Can anyone explain this to a Bear of Very Little Brain (or point me to a good tutorial)?
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
