Thank you for this. I've been playing with the idea of trying FCPx for my next project and not being able to ease zoom + pan was something that was limiting me! Aweasome stuff.
I'm seriously creating a youtube playlist just for tips from you guys...labelling it Ripple Training Gurus. So much incredible information...but my memory can't keep up to your brilliance. Thank you a million times for your hard work and for sharing it with us.
Ripple Training is my #1 resource for learning how to use Final Cut Pro/Motion/Compressor. This episode is another gem! Thank you so much for this, Mark.
Blade the clip, then make the start and the end of the Ken Burns the same to zoom in and keep playing video at that Zoomed point - that's the help I needed! Good channel, thanks.
OMG! You may have just revolutionized how I do the virtual zooms on my youth bowling series, PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR! Preserving as much resolution as I can this way is huge because I go way past the upper limits of what the resolution allows knowing that many of the show's viewers are watching on their phones anyway, and it holds together surprisingly well there. But this will improve the quality no matter where the viewers are watching. Game changer!
Tried it. Doesn't work for my purposes. The herky-jerky motion of "Smooth" still makes these virtual camera moves fly all over the place when combined with scaling up (which is what my virtual zooms are). The third party plug-in "Add Motion" seems to solve this limitation in FCP. But I was really hoping to achieve something similar while staying "in the (Apple) box." Oh well, I'm sure this enhanced Ken Burns will come in handy for something else. Still, I was already sold on having Motion in my toolbox. I couldn't do what I do without it. And having the help of pros like you and Steve Martin makes it all the more enjoyable and accessible.
Why it’s beyond Apple to allow a choice of interpolation for any keyframed parameter, after ten years, is totally beyond me. This is a fantastic tip - so simple and useful.
This was exactly what I wanted to do in a video a while back and I just gave up. I'm a fairly light user of FC/M but at some point I have to buy something off you guys to repay your hard work that never ceases to get through to me. Excellent work. Cheers.
Mind blown. I'm editing multi camera 4k concert footage in a 1080 timeline and have been using keyframes to dynamically adjust scale/position on a per shot basis. Of course, it's a lot of work when you want to change the length of the shot or add a transition that will go beyond the key framing. This is about to save me loads of time! THANK YOU!!
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you Mark. I’m just finishing up a 50 min documentary that is 90% archive photos. Made good use of the Ken Burns effect, and transform as well. But this would have made it so much simpler and less frustrating. BTW, though the effect is aptly named after Ken Burns, it was actually invented by a Canadian filmmaker named Colin Low who created docs for the NFB back in the 50s and 60s. Here’s a quote from his obituary from 2016 “Low received his second Palme d’Or for best short film at Cannes, along with another BAFTA award and Oscar nomination, for his 1957 documentary, City of Gold, on the Klondike Gold Rush. Co-directed with Wolf Koenig, it made innovative use of slow pans and zooms across archival photos, and was cited by Ken Burns as an inspiration for his own widespread use of this technique.” With regards to your effect, I published rotation as well to make it a little more versatile and named it the Colin Low Effect.
Absolutely next level for sure Mark! I really need to use this on a current batch of videos I’m doing so thank you for great timing making this upload and 17 years of helpful Final Cut and Motion tutorials!!
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat - doing this today! I spent hours at the weekend trying a title clip version of this and this looks way better! Thanks for always sharing - you’re amazing!
Thanks Mark for this video! Finally I learned that it wasn’t me who was doing something wrong with the keyframing for scaling! Phew! I will check out your tip! Very useful!
I just had this problem the other day! Thank you so much. I had know idea that scaling didn't have smooth easing like that. Seems odd that final cut wouldn't just expose that Z axis, if it's that easy to drop in that property from motion 🤔
Wow. I was just working on a large pan cel for an animatic using X, Y, Scale and Anchor to get a relatively smooth pan and zoom with keyframes. I grumbled all the way about how FCP needs a 2D camera like After Effects. This simple effect (which I named XYZ Transform because Ken Burns isn't really that great a name) is game changer for FCPX camera moves on 2D artwork. THANKS Mark!
I love Mark’s clear and very useful explanations. The only thing that is always a little odd when I watch them is that my name is ALSO Mark Spencer... 😁 Great work, as always!
So easy to add that effect - and now a new tool in the arsenal! All we need now is the duplicate keyframe function to create the holds. But it's simple enough to just advance ten frames and create a new keyframe.
Great. It looks amazing. With video, it just looks like a real camera movement to the object. Now we all could give our 4k drone shots a look like they were done with a camera in a helicopter 😂
All I can say is 🤯🤯🤯. I love FCP but I don't find it to be... easy to use. I don't know why/how your channel ended up in my feed... but I am so glad! This is a fantastic tip & I can't wait to try it out. New subscriber alert! 😃
*thud* (slowly comes to) I've been trying to find a way to do this for longer than I care to admit... and you solved it with a single publish. >respect
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Excellent.
It was fun doing that livestream with you today - I loved the starfish
@@rippleguys likewise! That Multicam trick was aces. I will definitely be using that.
Thank you for this. I've been playing with the idea of trying FCPx for my next project and not being able to ease zoom + pan was something that was limiting me! Aweasome stuff.
Thank you sooo much for this! Exactly what I needed. You're a peach of a human, Mark!
Thank you Rob!
Thanks!
Thank you Martin.
I'm seriously creating a youtube playlist just for tips from you guys...labelling it Ripple Training Gurus. So much incredible information...but my memory can't keep up to your brilliance.
Thank you a million times for your hard work and for sharing it with us.
Thank you for all the Ripple Training courses! Also, thank you for this very useful video!
Easy and SUPER useful. Fantastic video. Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Smooth like butter…
This was extremely helpful, thank you!!!
I use the snot out of this effect. It's muscle memory now. Thanks a bunch!!!
FANtastic. Thanks!
Ripple Training is my #1 resource for learning how to use Final Cut Pro/Motion/Compressor. This episode is another gem! Thank you so much for this, Mark.
words cannot express how much I love this
That was past 'Next Level Ken Burns', Mark. Again, truly excellent.
Holy Schnike! Too cool! I lol’d when published a single parameter to gain all that control! Genius!
"Pretty cool, right?" Yeah, man, pretty cool! Thanks! Took me a while to figure out the smooth vs linear thing. Makes all the difference.
Thanks for this, awesome tutorial!
Definitely a “Now, why didn’t I think of that?!” moment. I might use this when I get to work. This’ll probably come in handy.
I got it! I'm doing a video about the bees and was able to zoom in so the viewers can see the queen bee. Thank you so much for doing this.
Blade the clip, then make the start and the end of the Ken Burns the same to zoom in and keep playing video at that Zoomed point - that's the help I needed! Good channel, thanks.
OMG! You may have just revolutionized how I do the virtual zooms on my youth bowling series, PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR! Preserving as much resolution as I can this way is huge because I go way past the upper limits of what the resolution allows knowing that many of the show's viewers are watching on their phones anyway, and it holds together surprisingly well there. But this will improve the quality no matter where the viewers are watching. Game changer!
Tried it. Doesn't work for my purposes. The herky-jerky motion of "Smooth" still makes these virtual camera moves fly all over the place when combined with scaling up (which is what my virtual zooms are). The third party plug-in "Add Motion" seems to solve this limitation in FCP. But I was really hoping to achieve something similar while staying "in the (Apple) box." Oh well, I'm sure this enhanced Ken Burns will come in handy for something else. Still, I was already sold on having Motion in my toolbox. I couldn't do what I do without it. And having the help of pros like you and Steve Martin makes it all the more enjoyable and accessible.
Why it’s beyond Apple to allow a choice of interpolation for any keyframed parameter, after ten years, is totally beyond me. This is a fantastic tip - so simple and useful.
You guys are one of my favourite things on TH-cam. Thankyou.
Wow! The best Final Cut and Motion educators! Period!
Just created this for a project I'm currently working on and it works great, thank you very much!
This channel doesn't get enough love. It should be well over 100K subscribers
Ha we agree :-)
This was exactly what I wanted to do in a video a while back and I just gave up. I'm a fairly light user of FC/M but at some point I have to buy something off you guys to repay your hard work that never ceases to get through to me. Excellent work. Cheers.
Excellent tips. Just subscribed and will be trying this now. Thanks!
Most excellent Mark. I’m nowhere near the computer…but absorbed 90% of the tutorial. Your streaming thought flow is great.
Yes excellent video. Most helpful. Thanks.
Now where would we FCP editors be without Ripple Training? Thank you so much Mark for yet another essential tip!
So neat. I only recently created the title version in Motion and have just started using it. I'm now swapping to this, much more elegant solution.
This is a great tip! Using both FCP and Motion for years and I had no idea. Very efficient and very useful! Thank you very much!
Mind blown. I'm editing multi camera 4k concert footage in a 1080 timeline and have been using keyframes to dynamically adjust scale/position on a per shot basis. Of course, it's a lot of work when you want to change the length of the shot or add a transition that will go beyond the key framing. This is about to save me loads of time! THANK YOU!!
How awesome. Thank you
Love the bat behind the door by-the-way 😂
Actually a shower rod :-)
Absolutely brilliant! Thank you Mark. I’m just finishing up a 50 min documentary that is 90% archive photos. Made good use of the Ken Burns effect, and transform as well. But this would have made it so much simpler and less frustrating. BTW, though the effect is aptly named after Ken Burns, it was actually invented by a Canadian filmmaker named Colin Low who created docs for the NFB back in the 50s and 60s. Here’s a quote from his obituary from 2016 “Low received his second Palme d’Or for best short film at Cannes, along with another BAFTA award and Oscar nomination, for his 1957 documentary, City of Gold, on the Klondike Gold Rush. Co-directed with Wolf Koenig, it made innovative use of slow pans and zooms across archival photos, and was cited by Ken Burns as an inspiration for his own widespread use of this technique.” With regards to your effect, I published rotation as well to make it a little more versatile and named it the Colin Low Effect.
Wow how many days did this take? a year?
Perfect. I’m loving Motion more each day!
Nice tutorial! Will try this next time
The undisputed Master of Motion 😊 That was Next Level, thank you Mark!
This is a simple and fantastic solution and it's unfortunate we just don't have this level of control built into FCP at this point. Thanks Mark!
Oh my gosh this keyframe/easing issue always drove me NUTS in Final Cut. Thank you!!
Absolutely next level for sure Mark! I really need to use this on a current batch of videos I’m doing so thank you for great timing making this upload and 17 years of helpful Final Cut and Motion tutorials!!
Excellent, so well versed in your delivery and it’s super helpful!
Very Nice 👍🏼
Mark Spencer The Godfather of Motion
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat - doing this today! I spent hours at the weekend trying a title clip version of this and this looks way better! Thanks for always sharing - you’re amazing!
This is what I've always needed in FCP. THANK YOU!
Wow, that is pretty sweet. Love the fresh and unique approach!
Love this! Crazy to me they don’t just add it in by default, but this is a great workaround.
Next level thumbnail! Love it!
Another brilliant clear explanation thank you and more please
Finally this tutorial is happened ❤️🙏
Wow! So easy and extremely useful! Bravo!
I’m gobsmacked! Incredibly helpful. Thank you, Mark!!!
This is absolute gold. Well done Mark.
Thanks Mark for this video! Finally I learned that it wasn’t me who was doing something wrong with the keyframing for scaling! Phew! I will check out your tip! Very useful!
Very cool...and timely for me and my current project! 😎
thank you for this. amazing info. i didn't know all the capabilities of ken burns and am so excited to try some of these new moves out with it.
I just had this problem the other day! Thank you so much. I had know idea that scaling didn't have smooth easing like that.
Seems odd that final cut wouldn't just expose that Z axis, if it's that easy to drop in that property from motion 🤔
Very helpful and solved a problem with Final cut!Thanks!👍🏻
Wow. I was just working on a large pan cel for an animatic using X, Y, Scale and Anchor to get a relatively smooth pan and zoom with keyframes. I grumbled all the way about how FCP needs a 2D camera like After Effects. This simple effect (which I named XYZ Transform because Ken Burns isn't really that great a name) is game changer for FCPX camera moves on 2D artwork. THANKS Mark!
That is great! I’ll be creating that first thing tomorrow morning. Thanks Mark, that’s cool.
Cool. Thanks
I love Mark’s clear and very useful explanations. The only thing that is always a little odd when I watch them is that my name is ALSO Mark Spencer... 😁 Great work, as always!
Are you English?
@@markspencer1203 I am indeed. From London originally.
wow you packed a ton of great tips into that video! thanks a lot!
Absolutely awesome tips tutorial!!! Thank you so much Mark 🙂 I'm starting to love Motion
Amazing! This makes me miss the old "Send to Motion" function a bit less now :)
Great job clarifying the point AND giving us a simple but powerful tool!
Love Motion.
So easy to add that effect - and now a new tool in the arsenal! All we need now is the duplicate keyframe function to create the holds. But it's simple enough to just advance ten frames and create a new keyframe.
god you guys are good at this
Another great tip. Thanks again!
Breathing some new life into FCPX, dude. Thanks!
Amazing insights! Well done!
As always, very helpful!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Very clear and useful information about kern burns.👍🏻 You ve got a new subscriber! I wish you the best
This a great tip, one that I'm on my way to implement right now! Thanks Mark.
Wow! That's incredible. Thank you so much for your tips
Thanks Mark great tool, Love it...keep on crushing it.
how cool is that! You can still add an empty adjustment layer and apply the effect in the layer. from what I saw so far it holds the quality .
No it does not.
Clever workaround !
Awesome tip!! You guys are da bomb!!! I'm still intimidated by Motion and Compressor though. Just don't have enough time to really dive into them.
Great. It looks amazing. With video, it just looks like a real camera movement to the object. Now we all could give our 4k drone shots a look like they were done with a camera in a helicopter 😂
Oh wow! Love it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you, Mark! That is so helpful! And you present it so well. Great!
Super, you are a great teacher and this really helps to make some moves on my video edits. Much appreciated.
Thank you Mark.
Sooo freaking pumped to try this out omg you’re awesome!! 👏🏼
That is great. Excellent tip!
It’s the thumbnail for me 😱 😱 🔥
Outstanding! Thank you.
love your tips keep posting videos ♥
Ooo! Im giddy to try this. 🤯
genius. thank you
Always super informative! Thanks!
simple and sweet, thanks!
All I can say is 🤯🤯🤯. I love FCP but I don't find it to be... easy to use. I don't know why/how your channel ended up in my feed... but I am so glad! This is a fantastic tip & I can't wait to try it out. New subscriber alert! 😃
Always good stuff. Thanks, Mark.
*thud* (slowly comes to) I've been trying to find a way to do this for longer than I care to admit... and you solved it with a single publish. >respect
Very nice trick!