Motion Settings in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to show you the motion settings tab. First you need to double click and open up your image in the viewer for us. Just go ahead and double click it. Now it is opened up in my viewer. Now go over to the motion tab; let me enlarge this for you. Now we've covered some portions of the motion tab and right now let me show you the rest of what we haven't covered yet. Well scale here; scale is the size. Now you notice when you bring in an image into Final Cut Pro and drop it in your time line it instantly resizes it to fit the borders of your canvas. Now if you notice my scale right now is 90 percent, at 90 this is a percentage by the way. At 90 they chunk it a little bit to make it fit. Below that is your rotation dial and that is what you will be turning to rotate it. You then have center and this is where the center of your image will be. Your anchor point; your anchor point is the point where you will rotate around. So if I change my anchor point to the corner, instead of rotating from the middle, it will rotate the image from the corner. You then have a couple of things we haven't looked at yet. This is crop; these allow you to crop the top left right or bottom of your image and also put an edge feather on it. You also have distort. Distort allows you to warp the size of the image and change the aspect ratio. And capacity we've changed that just by directly on the clip itself using the little bar but now you also have a slide dial here for your capacity. Then drop shadow is for applying drop shadows to both text and images and then motion blur which we talked about earlier for blurring the motion. "