MORPHING IMAGES ON FCE

Hello,
Does anyone know a program that will be fast and easy to morph about 35 pictures and the result could go on FCE?
Thanks,
Chase

Hi there
I was looking for the same thing and found the following that might help you. I haven't qualified any though. Hope that helps.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19432
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2987
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26499
Good Luck
Hisham

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Is there anyway besides using the fade-in, fade-out transition that I can morph some pictures using FCE?
If not, how can I accomplish that.......I have about 36 pictures that need morphing into one-another......what will be a good solution?
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Chase
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7979
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Tom,
Thank you for your help. I am making progress. For the first time I was able to work in DV-NTSC Easy Setup.
My original image: 1 MB jpg, 1020 X 1419 - a client scanned I am guessing 600 dpi - since this was a 4 X 6 print.
After testing I had good results with adding the 1 pixel vertical blur you suggested to this original file, still over 1 MB and dimensions same. Swimming was next to nothing.
When I resized 720 X 540 the image was distorted (I followed your link and thought "unconstrained" was to be de-selected...perhaps not?, haven't retested yet.). When I changed the aspect ratio in Motion in FCE to 60 the image was normal AND I lost the "swimming". This file is 720 X 540, 504 KB.
Is the answer lying in perhaps the file was way too big? Doesn't make sense to me, but I don't code programs
Thank you so very much! I will be glad to be able to begin working with the tools of FCE.
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