Apple Final Cut Pro X 10.1.2 User Guide

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Crop clips
The Crop effect makes it easy to remove unwanted areas of the image. It automatically expands 
the cropped image so that it fills the screen.
Adjust the Crop effect
 1 Select a clip in the Timeline.
 2 To access the Crop controls, do one of the following: 
 •Choose Crop from the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the Viewer (or press Shift-C).
 •Control-click in the Viewer and choose Crop from the shortcut menu.
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 6 Click Done to have the crop applied and see the image zoomed to fill the screen.
You can animate the effect, creating the illusion of a pan and zoom camera move (effectively, 
a manual Ken Burns effect). For details on working with built-in effects, see  Work with built-in 
effects
 on page 235.
Pan and zoom clips with the Ken Burns effect
The Ken Burns effect creates a pan and zoom effect using the start and end positions you...

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 3 Click the Ken Burns button at the bottom of the Viewer.
Two rectangles appear in the Viewer: a green one that defines the position and size for the start 
of the clip and a red one that defines the position and size for the end of the clip.
Select the green Start or 
red End rectangle to adjust 
the crop size and position.
Click the Swap button to exchange the Start 
and End positions.Click the Play Loop button to play the 
clip in a...

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 •Linear: Removes all easing effects.
Tip:  Use the Crop effect and intermediate keyframes to create a Ken Burns–style effect that 
follows a more complicated path.
For details on working with built-in effects, see  Work with built-in effects
 on page 235.
Skew a clip’s perspective
The Distort effect is similar to the Transform effect, except that you can drag each of the corners 
independently of the others, allowing you to create a...

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 •Anywhere inside the window: Drag anywhere inside the window to adjust its position.
Drag each corner to set its position.Drag the center handles to set a side’s position.
 4 To individually adjust each corner using the Video inspector, use the Distort controls.
 5 When you are finished adjusting the effect and no longer need the onscreen controls, click Done. 
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 •To turn off the effect in the Video Animation Editor: Open the Video Animation Editor by 
choosing Clip > Show Video Animation (or pressing Control-V ), and click the checkbox next to 
the effect you want to turn off.
Click an effect’s checkbox to turn the effect on or off.
Animate built-in effects
Use keyframes to have the effect’s settings change as the clip plays. This applies to all built-in 
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 7 Adjust the effect’s controls to set the end position.
A keyframe is automatically added. Additionally, for Transform effects, a line showing the image’s 
path appears.
Click the Left Arrow button to jump back 
to the first keyframe.Click Done when you are finished creating 
the animation.
The red line shows the 
path of the image’s center.
 8 To finish, click Done in the upper-right corner of the Viewer.
When you play the clip, the...

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Adjust the Transform effect animation path
Transform animations have additional keyframe controls you can use to fine-tune the animation 
path. To show these, you first need to create a simple three-corner effect.
The Add Keyframe button changes to a Delete Keyframe 
button when you are 
positioned on a keyframe.
The center keyframe
 1 Select a clip in the Timeline and put the playhead at its start.
 2 Choose Transform from the pop-up...

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 9 To control the curve of the path, click the starting or middle keyframe and drag the 
curve handles.
Drag these handles 
on a middle keyframe to  adjust the path’s curve.
The starting keyframe
The ending keyframe
 10 Control-click a keyframe and choose an option from the shortcut menu:
 •Linear: Use for direct, non-curved paths in and out of that keyframe.
 •Smooth: Use for curved paths in and out of that keyframe, providing a more...

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Do one of the following:
 mAdd a clip to the Timeline as a connected clip and then add the effect to that clip. 
This places the clip above the primary storyline clip, which automatically becomes the 
effect’s background.
A clip that’s composited over the primary storyline
The clip in the primary 
storyline that is the  background
 mIf the clip is already in the primary storyline, drag it above the primary storyline, positioning it...