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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro
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Edit without Tears with Final Cut Pro

by Bruce G. Macbryde
March 2024
Beginner to intermediate
708 pages
17h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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13

Using Keyframes to Animate Objects in Final Cut Pro

In Chapter 11 and Chapter 12, you learned about built-in and third-party plug-ins and how they add powerhouse effects to Final Cut Pro. In this chapter, you will learn how to manipulate the settings in these plug-ins to change the view of the clip as the video plays. As a simple example, think of a clip that starts with a red color as it opens in the project, but by the time it has finished playing, the color has changed to green. Equally, an object can be moved across the screen to give the impression of animation.

You will learn that you can define the start and end points of any change with the use of markers called keyframes to anchor the start and end action points.

The term keyframe ...

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