Next Level Ken Burns Effects in FCP 

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Excellent.

Ripple Training is my #1 resource for learning how to use Final Cut Pro/Motion/Compressor. This episode is another gem! Thank you so much for this, Mark.

I'm seriously creating a youtube playlist just for tips from you guys...labelling it Ripple Training Gurus. So much incredible information...but my memory can't keep up to your brilliance. Thank you a million times for your hard work and for sharing it with us.

Absolutely next level for sure Mark! I really need to use this on a current batch of videos I’m doing so thank you for great timing making this upload and 17 years of helpful Final Cut and Motion tutorials!!

Most excellent Mark. I’m nowhere near the computer…but absorbed 90% of the tutorial. Your streaming thought flow is great.

This was exactly what I wanted to do in a video a while back and I just gave up. I'm a fairly light user of FC/M but at some point I have to buy something off you guys to repay your hard work that never ceases to get through to me. Excellent work. Cheers.

The undisputed Master of Motion 😊 That was Next Level, thank you Mark!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat - doing this today! I spent hours at the weekend trying a title clip version of this and this looks way better! Thanks for always sharing - you’re amazing!

Definitely a “Now, why didn’t I think of that?!” moment. I might use this when I get to work. This’ll probably come in handy.

This is a great tip! Using both FCP and Motion for years and I had no idea. Very efficient and very useful! Thank you very much!

I got it! I'm doing a video about the bees and was able to zoom in so the viewers can see the queen bee. Thank you so much for doing this.

You guys are one of my favourite things on RU-vid. Thankyou.

Just created this for a project I'm currently working on and it works great, thank you very much!

Great job clarifying the point AND giving us a simple but powerful tool! Love Motion.

This is what I've always needed in FCP. THANK YOU!

Now where would we FCP editors be without Ripple Training? Thank you so much Mark for yet another essential tip!

That was past 'Next Level Ken Burns', Mark. Again, truly excellent.

Holy Schnike! Too cool! I lol’d when published a single parameter to gain all that control! Genius!

Absolutely awesome tips tutorial!!! Thank you so much Mark 🙂 I'm starting to love Motion

words cannot express how much I love this

Thank you for this. I've been playing with the idea of trying FCPx for my next project and not being able to ease zoom + pan was something that was limiting me! Aweasome stuff.

OMG! You may have just revolutionized how I do the virtual zooms on my youth bowling series, PRODIGY BOWLERS TOUR! Preserving as much resolution as I can this way is huge because I go way past the upper limits of what the resolution allows knowing that many of the show's viewers are watching on their phones anyway, and it holds together surprisingly well there. But this will improve the quality no matter where the viewers are watching. Game changer!

Excellent, so well versed in your delivery and it’s super helpful!

Perfect. I’m loving Motion more each day!

I’m gobsmacked! Incredibly helpful. Thank you, Mark!!!

Why it’s beyond Apple to allow a choice of interpolation for any keyframed parameter, after ten years, is totally beyond me. This is a fantastic tip - so simple and useful.

This is absolute gold. Well done Mark.

Thanks Mark for this video! Finally I learned that it wasn’t me who was doing something wrong with the keyframing for scaling! Phew! I will check out your tip! Very useful!

thank you for this. amazing info. i didn't know all the capabilities of ken burns and am so excited to try some of these new moves out with it.

Thank you, Mark! That is so helpful! And you present it so well. Great!

Mind blown. I'm editing multi camera 4k concert footage in a 1080 timeline and have been using keyframes to dynamically adjust scale/position on a per shot basis. Of course, it's a lot of work when you want to change the length of the shot or add a transition that will go beyond the key framing. This is about to save me loads of time! THANK YOU!!

So neat. I only recently created the title version in Motion and have just started using it. I'm now swapping to this, much more elegant solution.

This a great tip, one that I'm on my way to implement right now! Thanks Mark.

This is a simple and fantastic solution and it's unfortunate we just don't have this level of control built into FCP at this point. Thanks Mark!

Thank you sooo much for this! Exactly what I needed. You're a peach of a human, Mark!

Wow! The best Final Cut and Motion educators! Period!

Wow! That's incredible. Thank you so much for your tips

That is great! I’ll be creating that first thing tomorrow morning. Thanks Mark, that’s cool.

Wow, that is pretty sweet. Love the fresh and unique approach!

Blade the clip, then make the start and the end of the Ken Burns the same to zoom in and keep playing video at that Zoomed point - that's the help I needed! Good channel, thanks.

Super, you are a great teacher and this really helps to make some moves on my video edits. Much appreciated.

Another brilliant clear explanation thank you and more please

Very clear and useful information about kern burns.👍🏻 You ve got a new subscriber! I wish you the best

Wow! So easy and extremely useful! Bravo!

Oh my gosh this keyframe/easing issue always drove me NUTS in Final Cut. Thank you!!

Sooo freaking pumped to try this out omg you’re awesome!! 👏🏼

As always, very helpful!

"Pretty cool, right?" Yeah, man, pretty cool! Thanks! Took me a while to figure out the smooth vs linear thing. Makes all the difference.

Thanks a lot Mark! Informative and easy to follow. Thanks for posting.

Always super informative! Thanks!

Finally this tutorial is happened ❤️🙏

This channel doesn't get enough love. It should be well over 100K subscribers

Easy and SUPER useful. Fantastic video. Thank you!!!!!!!!!

I just had this problem the other day! Thank you so much. I had know idea that scaling didn't have smooth easing like that. Seems odd that final cut wouldn't just expose that Z axis, if it's that easy to drop in that property from motion 🤔

Very cool...and timely for me and my current project! 😎

Always good stuff. Thanks, Mark.

Very helpful and solved a problem with Final cut!Thanks!👍🏻

I've never used Motion and honestly I'm a bit terrified to start, but introducing it in brief glimpses while showing its perks is gonna be what gets me started. Great video as always

Thanks Mark great tool, Love it...keep on crushing it.

Excellent tips. Just subscribed and will be trying this now. Thanks!

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

Amazing Mark, thank you. Just what I needed.

Thank you for all the Ripple Training courses! Also, thank you for this very useful video!

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you Mark. I’m just finishing up a 50 min documentary that is 90% archive photos. Made good use of the Ken Burns effect, and transform as well. But this would have made it so much simpler and less frustrating. BTW, though the effect is aptly named after Ken Burns, it was actually invented by a Canadian filmmaker named Colin Low who created docs for the NFB back in the 50s and 60s. Here’s a quote from his obituary from 2016 “Low received his second Palme d’Or for best short film at Cannes, along with another BAFTA award and Oscar nomination, for his 1957 documentary, City of Gold, on the Klondike Gold Rush. Co-directed with Wolf Koenig, it made innovative use of slow pans and zooms across archival photos, and was cited by Ken Burns as an inspiration for his own widespread use of this technique.” With regards to your effect, I published rotation as well to make it a little more versatile and named it the Colin Low Effect.

So useful! Thanks, Mark!

This is awesome, thank you!

Love this! Crazy to me they don’t just add it in by default, but this is a great workaround.

Breathing some new life into FCPX, dude. Thanks!

So freaken helpful! Thanks!

Another great tip. Thanks again!

Next level thumbnail! Love it!

I use the snot out of this effect. It's muscle memory now. Thanks a bunch!!!

Ooo! Im giddy to try this. 🤯

Outstanding! Thank you.

That's awesome. Thank you!

Thank you Mark.

Marvellous...Very much helpful

FANtastic. Thanks!

Amazing! This makes me miss the old "Send to Motion" function a bit less now :)

Mark Spencer The Godfather of Motion

All I can say is 🤯🤯🤯. I love FCP but I don't find it to be... easy to use. I don't know why/how your channel ended up in my feed... but I am so glad! This is a fantastic tip & I can't wait to try it out. New subscriber alert! 😃

This was extremely helpful, thank you!!!

You are the man my friend! I’ve literally been dying to figure a way to zoom in smoothly in FCPX… one thing that would make a huge difference would be able to control the amount it smoothly zooms at beginning or end of a scale keyframe just like the setting we have on slow motion when we slow a clip….

How awesome. Thank you Love the bat behind the door by-the-way 😂

love your tips keep posting videos ♥

simple and sweet, thanks!

That is great. Excellent tip!

wow you packed a ton of great tips into that video! thanks a lot!

Awesome tip Mark!! Thanks!!!

Thanks for this, awesome tutorial!

Oh wow! Love it! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thanks Mark this is super useful!

This is fantastic! Thank you so much.

Wow. I was just working on a large pan cel for an animatic using X, Y, Scale and Anchor to get a relatively smooth pan and zoom with keyframes. I grumbled all the way about how FCP needs a 2D camera like After Effects. This simple effect (which I named XYZ Transform because Ken Burns isn't really that great a name) is game changer for FCPX camera moves on 2D artwork. THANKS Mark!

Awesome tip!! You guys are da bomb!!! I'm still intimidated by Motion and Compressor though. Just don't have enough time to really dive into them.

Yes excellent video. Most helpful. Thanks.

Amazing insights! Well done!

Nice tutorial! Will try this next time

Excellent tip! Thanks!👍

Thank you, this is brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻! And that little tip about how scaling clips using titles causes resolution loss is great to know. I've been working on a Title that will take a still frame with a color chart in it, scale and rotate so that the chart is full-screen, and then drop color references over top to make color correction easier to do. I'm now thinking I might want to do the scale/rotate part using an effect instead.