Chapter 10 Animating Images

Final Cut Pro has considerable capabilities for animating images, allowing you to move them around the screen, resize, crop, rotate, and distort them at will. All of these properties can be animated, which allows you to enhance your productions and create exciting, interesting, and artistic sequences.

Setting Up the Project

One more time, let’s begin by preparing the material that you’ll need. In this chapter, we’ll use the BB9 library. You can download it from the eResources section of the www.routledge.com/products/9781138735842 web page. This is the smallest library, as it contains only still images.

  • 1. Once the ZIP file is downloaded, double-click it to open the contents.
  • 2. Copy or move the BB9 library to the ...

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