Final Cut Express HD 3.5 Editing Workshop, 3rd Edition

In this chapter…

Setting Up the Project

Keyframing

Straight Motion

Curved Motion

Other Motion Controls

Summary

Lesson 13

Animating Images

Final Cut Express has considerable capabilities for animating images. It allows you to enhance your productions and create exciting, interesting, and artistic scenes. In this lesson we will concentrate on FCE’s motion capabilities.

Setting Up the Project

One more time, let’s begin by opening up the lesson from your hard drive.

1.    Open Lesson 13, and if necessary, go through the reconnect process.

2.    Open Sequence 1, which is empty.

3.    We’re going to deal only with video tracks for much of this lesson, so the first step, as we did in the previous lesson, is to switch off the destination tracks for ...