Better Ken Burns Effect in Video - FCPX Tutorial 2018

Thanks I been looking for this men, from Kenya🇰🇪

And another one. Thanks man!

Exactly what I was looking for :-) Thanks!

THANK YOU!!! I'm making a video for my brother's wedding and good lord I could not get the wonky transitioning to smooth out. This was exactly what I needed! Thank you so much!

We love this, thank you, only issue it does the entire clip, can’t figure out what we are doing wrong? We tried doing only 10 seconds of clip and all 30 minutes of clip was done? Can you answer on here?

Thank you I will do that! Let you know! Thank you for getting back so quick!

Serge, my husband wants to know if the video is supposed to go back to original crop at the end of transformation. I say no he says yes.
I am loving this technique, thank you so much

early morning editing brought me here....it's amazing how small tricks and tools can help you make better videos...it's all in the details. kudos mate.

Your voice sounds like the apple robot voice..lol but good job..

Hey Surge. Thans for the videos. I have a question. For the adjustment you made 3 seconds into the clip, how come you didn't need to place a keyframe there? Thanks!

Thanks that worked out great!

Serge, A while back I posed a question to you in an email about creating an animated line that moves along the roads on a map from one place to another. I was worrying over that for months. I had my hunches but couldn't work it out in my head. If you answered my question, I must have missed it. Anyway, I finally worked it out after lots of trial and error...and it's far from perfect and it requires a lot of work in a draw mask.
Step one: First you need the image of the map. Google Maps was the place to go for me but the screen grab image of an airport in a rural setting was just awful because of color (green fields, trees, and grass) and unwanted labels.  I didn't know where else to look for a map image.
Step two: I imported and edited the image of the airport and it's surrounds into Affinity Photo; adjusted the color and eliminated all unnecessary titles. When it was done I titled it MAP-A. Then I duplicated the image (this became important later to have an exact duplicate) and drew a line on the second image that traced the path of traveling on roads from one end of the airport to the other using the Affinity pen tool in the line mode. It was a big, winding, twisting horseshoe shaped line that followed country roads and urban streets and I colored the line blue and called that second image Map-B.
Step Three: The two finished images were imported into Final Cut with Map-B going on the time line first followed by Map-A over top (no blue line). What was visible in the Viewer was the unlined map. A draw mask was brought onto that map. That's when the "fun" began because my draw mask contained ten control points that I adjusted dozens of times with keyframes to slowly reveal that blue line on the map below to replicate traveling from one place to another. In the animation, the pace of the moving line is a little spastic because the distance between keyframes will depend on how far the line travels before an adjustment to the mask occurs so I haven't gotten that cleaned up yet but the setting is on Linear and not Smooth, I checked.  

The duration of this animation is a little under a half minute and it took me four months to complete...Good thing I'm retired.

Nice tip. a better way to move video around.

Help :
When we place two photos on timeline and move both images left to right with keyframes. There is slight pause in animation when we jump from one photo to another.
In premier we get Smooth animation
Any fix ?

Another very useful video! Thank you!

Didn’t waste any time and went straight to the point! New sub here 🔥

Dude, you're good. I am learning so much from your channel. Thanks!

Such a clear explanation! Thank you!

haha am I the only one who uses the ken burns effect to zoom into memes?

Thank you for you sharing and teaching! very useful!

Why do you have to apply the Ken Burns tool to the entire video? I would like to zoom in and out halfway a video

Wow! This is a very helpful video! Thank You!

It is awesome what Your doing. Super helpful tutorial for a beginner like me

Nice one 😊 thanx

Brilliant! Thank you so much for this. To the point and extremely helpful.

good video Serge, when you travell to London I'm here to have a coffee together :)

This was very useful I had no idea you could do that with the transform tool will try it in my next video. keep up the good work!

Love it when I search a topic and I find the PERFECT answer to my question. Thanks, man!

Thank you so much,

Que bueno!!

thanks for the easier and better technique for Photo Presentations. Saved me, Serge M!

I wish FCP gave an option to make all keyframes default to Linear instead of Smooth. Can we petition Apple to make this change?? :) I so much hate having to right click on each control point EVERY SINGLE TIME to select Linear. :-|

Dear Serge, THANK YOU! I was going NUTS trying to figure out how to apply Ken Burns to only a portion of my video clip. I have watched COUNTLESS videos and you FINALLY gave me an answer. One CANNOT apply Ken Burns to a portion of the clip, one must use TRANSFORM. THANK YOU!!! (I am a total beginner)

Shift T didn't work for me...probably I'm broken !!!!

BUT...everything else was great and I thank you for the tutorial !!!

Nice 👍

Great information

this is awesome 👍🏽

Very cool ! Thx for sharing !

Even with this technique of setting keyframes to linear, the abrupt change at each keyframe is not realistic. I used to use Premiere Pro and was able to adjust with bezier controls to make the keyframe transitions slow down and operate smoothly. Will Final Cut Pro X ever have such effective bezier controls in the future? Thanks for this video as it was helpful.

Cool man !

Such a useful video tutorial. Thanks for that you're a life saver

Awesome tip - explained to the point and done very clear and concise.

Excellent...short and to the point and exactly what I needed. Are there any plug-in that allow you make the keyframe changes more gentle like other editors (waveform?). For example, the movement starts slow and speeds up and then slows at reaches the end. Anyway to accomplish that?

Super cool 😎 👍🏽

Nice option. Love tutorials that give a wider view of the program.

Nice, but. How do I get it to change direction smoothly instead of that jerky move at each keyframe?

Succinct as always Serge!

Very good video. I run into a lot of your tutorial one at a time. Whenever I need help I search for the answer to my question and often one of your videos comes up. I think, "Oh good, it this guy!" Thank you!

Thanx for your continuing helpful content! Even if it's 5 years old. 😊