Help to adjust Ken Burns settings

Hi Guys,

When I apply a Ken Burns effect on Final Cut Pro x, it puts in a slight acceleration where the effect builds up speed.

Is there a setting where I can just apply a uniform speed Ken Burns effect? How do I access that?

Thanks

Don't use Ken Burns its useless. Use transform with key frames.

Well, in fairness it's "useless" in about the same way a blender might be seen to be inferior to a whisk for a skilled chef. It's a tool to make a commonly wanted effect easy and fast to accomplish and it's presets (including ease in and ease out) are set to provide what most editors want most of the time.

A chef might prefer a whisk to a blender for many delicate tasks, but they're still happy to have a blender around when what it does - matches what they need done.

I don't think there is a way to turn off easing/smoothing in Ken Burns.

Keyframes are very powerful. They default to linear rather than smooth points. You can make them smooth, but if you're moving and scaling simultaneously you'll get curved animation paths that are often not what's desired. You can adjust them from the Bezier handles, but it's an extra detail. So, for me, using keyframes means I usually have to go in, change the keyframes to Smooth, then adjust the handles. But sometimes it's the only way to do what's needed.

Where you don't need a complicated move and DO want easing, I do find Ken Burns highly effective.

Scroll back a week or so for a tutorial from the MacBreak Studio guys on a powerful trick that allows multiple moves on the same image or clip using Ken Burns.

I also frequently use Alex4D's Smooth Move - a free Effect that allows simultaneous moving and scaling without tweaking, the option to add a hold at the start and/or end of the move, and the option to use Easing/Smoothing at the start or end (or both) of the move. It's perhaps my most used FCPX add-on.

I wish they would update the old Lyric Zoom Pro plugin for FCPX - it offered multiple moves on the same image or clip better than anything else I've seen.

www.lyric.com/fcp-plugins/panzoompro/pzp.htm

I know I could keyframe stuff, but I use and like the Ken Burns effect from FCPeffects. Works well and has a lot of published parameters to tweak.

Thanks to all for taking the time to help me out. Very useful information.

"Don't use Ken Burns its useless. Use transform with key frames."

There are instances where Ken Burns isn't very useful, but its far from "useless". As ddixon pointed out, when you've got a situation where you don't need a complicated move and do want easing, the Ken Burns tool is fast and useful.

Another alternative to using transform with keyframes is building the move in Motion, saving it as a generator and then bringing it into FCP X. Not quite as fast as Ken Burns, but it greatly enhances what you're able to do with your image and affords some flexibility if you need to make changes.

Here's the link to the MacBreak Studio tutorial on Ken Burns.

www.pixelcorps.tv/node/1539

Very helpful and makes this feature much more useable. Now if they'd just add a rotation adjustment ...

Oh by the way I was wrong. Use the CROP tool not the transform tool. It does much better zooms.