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Published inMar 2024
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Bruce G. Macbryde
Bruce G. Macbryde
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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
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Ken Burns on steroids

The Ken Burns effect is a simple way of animating a zoom-in effect when you want to smoothly move from a wide view of a scene to a close-up or vice versa.

You will be familiar with the use of the Ken Burns effect and how the green outline represents the starting point of the change in size and the red outline shows the ending size:

Figure 13.24: Ken Burns green to red

Figure 13.24: Ken Burns green to red

The Ken Burns effect is certainly a quick alternative to keyframing a change of angle. However, you need to be careful that the original image has a high enough resolution, avoiding the zoomed-in portion pixelating. If you have filmed in 4k and have the clip in a 1080p timeline, you will be able to zoom in 2x (or 100%) of the screen size.

You can achieve this by starting the project at 1080p and dragging in the 4k clip. Final Cut Pro will fit the 4k clip into the 1080p timeline. Figure 13.25 shows a 1080p project on the left and a 4k clip added to the 1080p timeline...

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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614921

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Bruce G. Macbryde

Bruce G. Macbryde, a Final Cut Pro trainer with 20+ years of experience, spanning from the original release in 1999 to the latest version. He served as a sales manager for Australian Authorized Apple distributors (1998-2004) and later as a training manager for Apple-developed software through 2009. He established Wedding Media Productions in 2004, a wedding video business in Sydney, Australia. Bruce is a YouTube creator for the VideoTutors channel, with 500+ video tutorials. He began teaching marketing at NSW TAFE in the early 1980s, specializing in technology and business software such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Pagemaker, and Photoshop during a 7-year stint in New Zealand.
Read more about Bruce G. Macbryde