How do I Ken Burns Video in FCP/FCE?

I've looked around the internet for days. Someone please help!
Is there anyway to Ken Burns VIDEO (not photos--I've seen a million tutorials on that)so there is a pan or zoom type effect.
If anyone could help, THANKS!

Hmm.... I remember the Apple II CS where internally they were calling the CS for Carl Sagan. He got mad and was going to sue so internally they changed the name to Apple II BA for Butthead Astronomer. We better watch out cause Ken's gonna get mad and then we will all have to quit calling it the Ken Burns effect and change it to something like BP (already has a bad connotation) for Boring Producer Effect.

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Although I'm not certain, I don't think the Ken Burns effect has the ability to adjust the ease in/ease out settings. I usually prefer to use those, however....here's the solution.
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/smooth-move-fpx-effect/
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KB only works on the entire duration of a clip. SM gives you the options to hold at the beginning and/or end of the clip or photo and just move in between. And, I don't know the terms for this, but it does the scaling and positioning in a smooth professional way without the strange glitches if you scale and position at the same time using keyframes. And, best of all for you, it gives the option to make the moves constant or eased. In fact, you have separate ease/constant settings for position, scale, and rotation.
It's that good, and it's free - get it.

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Hello awp,
Moving pictures in FCP *** as anyone who has FCP knows
New to me - just created a squence with multiple pictures and clips, all moving, keyframing, time-remapping, etc. Great results ... customer satisfied.
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I want to start or end with the full pic in view - just as the FIT command does.
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The courts are broadly interperting the law, and as this link shows, even Yoko Ono couldn't stop a film maker from using IMAGINE, by John Lennon.
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Any Suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

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Was it you who referred me to a link for a plug-in for about a hundred bucks (cheap price to pay, IMHO) that brought drag-and-drop simplicity for this feature to FCP?
I have a lot of this to do, but I failed to bookmark your post (if it was you), and I would SORELY love to buy the program now. It was called Photo* something.
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They've banned Halloween at my kids' local school in Newton, MA. I'm sorry if I sound crabby.
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How do I Ken Burns Video in FCP/FCE?

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