Ease in/out of effect in Motion TAB ?

From the Motion tab inside FCP-
Is there a way to create an ease IN/OUT of a size or rotation change?
example:
I have a rotating postcard graphic that snaps into it's final position and I would like it to ease into that resting spot with more grace.

This is covered in the Final Cut Pro user manual.
Chapter 67, "Adjusting Parameters for Keyframed Effects", in the section "Controlling Speed Along a Motion Path" on page 1123 of the pdf file found in the application's Help menu bar item.

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Ease-in ease-out weirdness in motion tab FCP

I've been doing a lot of animating stills in FCP by keyframing SCALE and CENTRE in the MOTION TAB of the VIEWER. I discovered the EASE-IN and EASE-OUT options by control-clicking the end key frames, but when I play back the animated clip, it does these weird lateral curve motions despite my only animating the still in a straight line. How do you ease-in a still and ease-out without this weird motion action occurring? Anyone sorted that? Do I have to use *After Effects* or Motion, or can it be done well in FCP ?

Try moving the image with Anchor Point instead. Some time ago, Tom Wolsky posted the following reply to a thread that is long-gone:
+Let's say you're zooming into a picture. You're starting say a scale of 20% centered on the screen and you going to scale up to 100%, and as you zoom in (scale) you want to move to the upper right corner of the image. Scaling takes place around the anchor point. The anchor point is normally the center of the image. As you move toward the upper right you're actually scaling around a point that's moving farther and farther away from where you're going. This causes overshoot, especially if the scale and center values are eased. (Scaling is not exponential anyway so this exacerbates the problem.) If you animate the anchor point to move opposite the center point, the scaling will continue to happen around the anchor point, which is now moving with you toward where you're going. It'll give you a bit better motion, but you still have to give yourself a little wiggle room.+
+Let me give you some numbers. I'm starting with an image that's 3600x2670. At it's start the image is centered and scaled to 24%. I can't go all the way to 20% because I'll get overshoot on the start when I put on easing because scale is logarithmic, while center is arithmetic. At the end of the motion the image is scaled to 100. It's center is now -1335, 932. (Again because of overshoot I can't go much closer to the edge.) Easing is set for center and scale, and as I'm sure you've seen you get the image sliding off the screen even with leaving the slack that I did. Now add the anchor point animation. Set the start keyframe at 0,0 the same as the center point. Set the end keyframe to 1335, -932, the opposite of the center keyframe and you'll get a motion that stays in the screen. If you could set easing for the anchor point it would be even smoother, but that's not practical in the FCP interface. You get a little snaking effect at the end. All in all pretty inadequate for good motion control.+
+I tried it Motion as well. The first problem is the application can't handle the image at full resolution. It could do the movement with scale animation and a motion path behavior. It was kind of adequate, but easing on the scaling was pretty poor and didn't achieve good results.+
+A major issue in both applications is the the scaling starts quickly and gets slower and slower. This is because of the lack of exponential scaling, and until this is addressed neither application will be more than barely adequate at best when it comes to large scale motion control. Basically neither of them are acceptable for professional work on large format, large scale images. I won't even go into how totally inadequate FCP is for easing stop and go motion.+

Problems easing in/out for ken burns effect

I love FCP, but this has been driving me crazy for the past year or so!
I have to edit a lot of presentations with maps and still pictures, and I often need to zoom in or out to a specific part of a still. Easing in and out of keyframes looks much better than sudden movements, but because "Scale" beziers are time-based and "Center" beziers are space-based, it's practically impossible to coordinate the scale and the movement.
Does anybody know of a viable way to ease in or out while ken burnsing in FCP?
BTW I LOVE Motion and I know it can do this, but for one of the simplest and most commonly needed editing tasks, creating every shot in Motion would be unnecessarily tedious and seems like overkill.

Here are my two workarounds to smooth out the "slide" that happens due to the fact that you can only "ease" scale and not motion keyframes.
1. simple - keyframe the anchor point, or just move it where the center of the zoom is supposed to be. This is easily done with the disort tool, but dragging the anchor point can be tricky if the image is very high-res, as it will keep showing you a different part of the image as you drag it around.
2. tricky - keyframe the motion as you normally would, and bring up the motion path in the canvas (wireframe). Notice that there are bezier handles on either end of the motion path. Swing out one of the handles away from the straight motion path, which will temporarily curve your motion path. Notice that in addition to the point you can grab on the end of the handle, there is also a round point in the middle of the handle. Grab the point in the middle of the handle and slide it along the handle - you'll see the points on the mition path compress towards one end or the other. This has the same effect as easing the motion in or out. When you are done adjusting, you can drag the handle back to straighten out the motion path.
Since it is possible to adjust the speed of a motion path in this way, I have no idea why they have never tried to allow this to simply be eased in the motion tab. But if I could do that kind of math in my head I would be a computer instead a lowly user. It's too bad that this is one of those things that looks great when you see it in the interface - "oh, smooth, that sounds nice" but then if you try to smooth the zoom and keyframe the x:y position, you'll get the "slide" every time. Very distracting and really never what you want.
Hope your plugin is easier to use than my workaround.
Max Average

Motion-ease in/out

I'm working in FCE4 and using a number of still pictures. I'm doing pans and zooms using the motion control. No problem. The acceleration from start to stop is constant. I want it to start out slow, speed up, then slow down to end. So I control click to get "ease in/out" and apply. Sometimes it works, but mostly it doesn't. Sometimes nothing happens. Sometimes it changes the motion path from a straight line to a curve causing the picture to veer off from the straight line I want. Why does it sometimes not work or change the motion path?

Using FCE 3.5.1 / OSX 10.6.2 / Intuos 2
Well, not really sure why FCE’s Motion control only works on some clips for you...?
If you like, here is my workflow...
Create a motion-pass of your image, let’s say from left to right...
You should see a blue linear motion-pass with two green endpoints...
(the small dots in between are automatically generated keyframes)
Right click the first green (round) point (start-frame) /
From the drop-down choose Ease In / Ease Out /
Move the tip of the Bezier-handle in any direction and make it longer...
(keep it straight for a straight line, but it can be adjusted at any time))
You should see a second blue dot fairly in the middle of the bezier-handle...
Move that little dot up or down and see how the key-frames are moving...
Moving it to the green dot concentrates the keyframes (slower movement)...
Moving it to the other side opens the key-frames (faster movement)...
Do the same with the other green (square) point (end-frame)...
Adjust those handles until you like what you see...
Regards
Nolan

Ease in/out not intuitive

Hello,
I've been using animation applications for about 20 years now and, for whatever reason, Flash CS5's ease in/out feature has got me stumped.
I have a simple text Movieclip that comes from the left, off stage, and moves to the right onto the stage and stops. I want to ease it so it slows down to a stop.
I'm using Flash CS5 with the new tween.
When I click on the tween in the timeline, the ease property in the Properties Inspector doesn't give me what I want. If I put 100, it comes in and stops hard. If I give it a -100, it slowly accelerates to full speed and then stops suddenly.
I've read the tutorial for the new Motion Editor in Flash and it doesn't work like any other motion editor I've used, including Adobe's own After Effects. Normally, you would just click on the graph's line and then curve it with a pen tool or right-click on select bezier...
Thank you for your time.

Hey there,
The property inspector applies ease across the entire tween span, so you're correct that it's not going to give you what you're after. One of the things about the new tweens is it's applying the animation to an entire object, which gives us complexities about trying to do things like ease between property keyframes. We know we need to make this workflow better, and have many ideas around this, hopefully it'll be a reality in a future release soon.
So for now, when easing non-spatial properties (anything other than X, Y, Z), you can use the bezier to adjust the curve. For spatial properties (X, Y, Z) you can switch between smooth and linear curve but not use bezier handles. The reason for this is Flash has stage editing - in order to have both stage editing and control in the graphs, you can either have one or the other. Because Flash users are so accostomed to Stage editing, we went with that and turned of spatial control in the ME (otherwise, Math takes over the handles and you can't really adjust them as you expect). And also because adjusting those curves in the ME rarely gets a user what they're typically after (which is the correct result, technically/mathematically speaking).
Anyway, long story short - if you're doing ease in/out, you may just want to use one of the "Stop and Start" eases, which is an S curve and is ease in and ease out. Just add it to your tween, set the value, and then apply it to the properties you need it on.
Or, you can add a Custom ease and use the bezier controls (keyframes will snap to keyframes in the properties of the tween), and then apply it to your properties.
If you aren't trying to ease a spatial property, you can adjust the curves using beziers, which is a good way of applying ease between keyframes as you note.

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ok, heres what i want to do, i have a clip that i have 'frozen' and at the point where it freezes or pauses, i , using the motion tab, adjusted the scale of the image so that over time (3-4 seconds) there is a zoom in effect (its like what they do in the beck video 'devils haircut' ). The problem that i have is that i want to zoom in towards the top right hand corner of the image but it zooms in towards the center. Now i thought it might be sorted by using the 'anchor point ' or 'center' options under the motion tab but as yet have had no success, i'm hoping one of you out there can help me.
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Tweak to taste.
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This is what I am doing:
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jeffreys42057005 wrote:
I've created a layer in Elements 12 that contains some text. I'd like to add an outer glow effect.
This is what I am doing:
1. Select layer with text
2. Click FX button at bottom of screen
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5. I can see 11 preset option. The only one that works is called 'Fire' and it is not the style I'm looking for. I want a simple outline, but none of the other presets have any effect.
Any help would be appreciated!! Thanks!
Jeff
Jeff,.
You're almost there!
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that's great.
Someone please tell me how can i create this effect on motion 3?
http://www.ayatoweb.com/aetips_e/ae17_mov05e.html
thanks

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I'm encountering a persistent problem with FCP unexpectedly quitting on both version 4.5HD and version 5. The problem occurs when I open a clip from the timeline in the viewer and access the motion tab to adjust the scale of a clip or the position of a clip with the pen tool. I can enter four nodes successfully with no problems, but if I then go back to the clip or open a new one, I can enter maybe three nodes maximum before they cease to register, then the beachball appears for half a second and FCP quits with the "unexpected" message.
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Thanks for reading.
L.
Either: iBook G4, eMac, G4 Tower, Mac-Mini, 20" Intel iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hi John,
Thanks. I figured it out so there’s no need.
Aloha,
Rick Doyle
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How to Unhide "Motion" tab.

Okay, I did something to the "Motion" tab in my viewer. I cannot find it anymore. I think I did a "Close Tab", but now don't know how to get it back. I searched the manual, and the forums here, but cannot find the answer. Anyone know how to restore that tab? I would much appreciate it.
Thx

Trying to replicate your problem I first dragged the Motion tab out of the Viewer window: this makes a stand-alone window for Motion and removes Motion from the Viewer.
Then I applied ctrl-U and the new Motion window disappeared... in fact I found it was well hidden behind the Canvas window.
Then, when closing the stand-alone Motion window or when opening a different clip in the viewer, the Motion tab appeared again in the Viewer window.
I'm not sure what happened in your case, but in my experience closing any tab in the viewer behaves as you were closing the whole viewer (that is replaced by the standard slug viewer), and closing the stand-alone Motion window moves the Motion tab back to the open viewer.
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