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Q: Ken burns effect on many photos

On my old Final cut Express I used a plugin called pan and zoom (or something similar) which allowed me to mount 200/300 photos on the timeline and to put it on the photos at last, in one step, so to get a good and smooth ken burns effect. I could set some parameters so that the effect speed was independent from the photo duration. I'm searching a similar plugin for FCPX. I tried the Ken Burns FCPX own effect, but it's speed is dependent from the photo duration, and I can't modify it, or, to be more exact, I could do it working on the squares of the effect, but it is too laborious making it for each photo. I'd like working on numerical parameters, concerning, say, the speed movement, so that I could modify them much more quickly.

Any hint?

Posted on Aug 9, 2016 2:21 AM

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  • by Luis Sequeira1,

    Luis Sequeira1 Luis Sequeira1 Aug 9, 2016 4:07 AM in response to mnstudio
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    Aug 9, 2016 4:07 AM in response to mnstudio

    Take a look at this free plugin: https://fxfactory.com/info/panandzoom/

     

    In any case, to achieve your creative vision you'll have to invest time.

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 9, 2016 6:35 AM in response to mnstudio
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    Aug 9, 2016 6:35 AM in response to mnstudio

    Just to say that key framing is a skill worth knowing and is a lot easier in FCP X than in FCE.

     

    When an clip is animated (pan, zoom, position, etc.) with key frames, the attributes can be copied to other clips with the option of maintain timing or stretch to fit; it's a check box choice.

     

    Good luck.

     

    Russ

  • by mnstudio,

    mnstudio mnstudio Aug 9, 2016 6:48 AM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 9, 2016 6:48 AM in response to Russ H

    But this way all photos would have the same movement (i.e. in-out zoom)

  • by Russ H,

    Russ H Russ H Aug 9, 2016 6:59 AM in response to mnstudio
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    Aug 9, 2016 6:59 AM in response to mnstudio

    Of course it will…if you apply the same move to every clip. So create different moves and apply them to multiple clips as appropriate – say, a tilt up move for a portrait orientation. Whatever.

     

    Russ

  • by mnstudio,

    mnstudio mnstudio Aug 9, 2016 7:11 AM in response to Russ H
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    Aug 9, 2016 7:11 AM in response to Russ H

    Yes, I tried it. It works, but on 300 or 400 photos it is laborious, because you have to alternate some with one movement e some with other....

    Basically the FCPX KB effect is perfect, because it is random. The only problem, for me, is that it hasn't a speed control parameter. For example, if I have a 2 seconds still image the KB effect becomes ridicolous.... and I can't modify it quickly: I have to go to the editor effect, resize the squares, try.......