Hi, this is Steve from RippleTraining.com.
I'm starting a regular series called
Steve's Production Tips
where I show you some of my favorite tips and techniques
in Final Cut Pro X in under 5 minutes.
Today, I'll show you how to use the Ken Burns Effect
to reveal different parts of a photo
without using key frames.
I know a lot of you out there shoot photos.
Here's a photo of basically Team Ripple.
We're sitting out in the field, we're relaxing
it's kind of a production shot.
I really want to animate from one subject to the other.
In fact, let's take a look at the finished product
so you can see what it's going to
look like when we're done.
So you can see the camera pans
from one subject to the other
then it holds, then it animates over again,
holds,
then pulls out and we have our
large scale picture of everyone in the frame.
Very easy to do inside Final Cut Pro and you
don't have to use a single key frame.
I'm going to go ahead and open up this project,
called Team Ripple and I'm going to add the photo
to the timeline by selecting the photo and
pressing E to add the clip to the timeline.
Because there are no other video clips in
the timeline, it wants to know the resolution,
I'm just going to click OK, press Shift-Z
to fit the photo to the timeline window
and now we are going to apply the Ken Burns Effect.
I'm going to select it, go over to the
lower left of the viewer and using this drop
down menu, I'm going to choose Crop
and I'm going to click the Ken Burns button.
For those of you who have used the Ken Burns,
you will know you have a start and ending frame.
So what I want to do is set up my start frame first.
I will want to start over here on Travis.
So I am going to go ahead and move the frame
over here, set it up right there, looks
like good framing
and my ending frame,
I want to set right over Jill and I.
We are sitting in the middle of the field. 
So I have my start and ending frame.
If I want to see what this
looks like, I can press this little button
click this button and it does a preview of the animation.
Perfect!
Now, we are not done. We really need to hold
on this shot of Jill and I at the end of the animation.
The Ken Burns doesn't automatically
allow you to do that, you have to kind of
trick it by creating a freeze frame at the
end of the clip so that's what I'm going to
do now. I'm going to press the Down Arrow
and then Left Arrow to go to the last frame
and press Option-F and that will add a freeze
frame that matches the ending frame of the
Ken Burns Effect so you can see it just completely
will match if I play this through
you'll see that it goes to a nice freeze frame.
You can also adjust the duration of the freeze
frame if you want and you can even adjust
the speed of the animation for Ken Burns by
trimming it here. That's the thing about
Ken Burns, you can control the speed simply by
trimming the length you need.
So there we go.
Now, what we want to do is I want to pan from
us over to the two individuals you can't see
off to the right side of the frame, Mark and
Zion. To do that, I am going to select this clip
and I'm going to copy it, Command-C,
I'm going to go to the end of the timeline
press Command-V to paste.
What I need to do is swap the start and ending frame.
The reason is this previous frame here,
this still is the ending frame
and we need it to be the start frame
of the next Ken Burns sequence
or the next Ken Burns animation.
So I'm going to click the swap button and
you'll notice now the start frame matches
the previous frame, the still frame.
Now all I need to do is grab this end frame
and move it over to where I want it and in this case,
right over Mark and Zion
and I'll go ahead and preview it to see how it looks.
Perfect!
Maybe it's a little fast or a little slow,
I can go ahead and adjust it if I want
and then also what I want to do is a freeze frame
at the end. So make sure I'm at the end of
the sequence and press Option-F
and now I have a freeze, let's click Done
and I'm going to set that
and now it freezes right there on
Zion and Mark.
So, one last thing I want to do. I want to
widen out to see everyone in the shot.
I'm going to go ahead and copy this clip.
Go to the end of the sequence, Command-V to paste,
select the clip, make sure Ken Burns is turned on
and I'm going to set the swap
end and start frames-swap them
and I'm going to go ahead
and set the ending frame for the entire group.
I'm going to preview that and see how that works.
A little fast, so what I need to do is to trim it,
make it longer, trim it out and pull out some of the frames there. What that will do is
make the animation happen a little bit longer
and maybe that's taking a little bit too long
so I will just move my playhead over here
and press Option-]
and I'll do a freeze frame there because the playhead is already parked there. So I will press Option-F.
I'll press Shift-Z to zoom out, go back to
the beginning of the timeline
and we'll play it back.
And there you have it.
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