[FCP-L] Re: Free Pan & Zoom plug-in from Noise Industries

Jim, thanks for that. I tried out the plug-in. Many great features and good quality, but I find the workflow impossible to deal with. Does anyone here use it and like it?

My complaint about it ties in with the recent debate over on the Avid L2, in which both Avid's Pan & Zoom and FCP's ability to zoom with the Motion tab (as opposed to Motion) were bad-mouthed repeatedly. The FX Factory plug-in is a video generator, not an effect that gets dropped onto an existing still image clip in the Timeline. (The Avid Pan & Zoom effect gets dropped onto a placeholder clip in the timeline, at which point it works similarly.)

I find it inconceivable that I could work in a timeline full of placeholder video generators named "Pan and Zoom (Accelerated)" rather than the still image files themselves. Is this a failure of my imagination? ;) Is there a workaround?

I need to throw stills into the sequence, cut them against the audio, shuffle them around, swap in and out different stills, stack them up and/or checkerboard them sometimes, and THEN apply "Ken Burns" moves, not the other way around.

We all agree that the scaling in FCP could be much, much better, but 95% of the time it's "good enough for government work," as they say. I'd love to do round trips to Motion because the quality is nicer, but I don't have time for that when I'm cutting; inevitably there will be multiple copy changes and new voice overs, new music, new stills, etc., all requiring extensive recutting of the picture, and the deadline will always be "five minutes ago."

(Off on a tangent rant: My main gripe with Final Cut Studio is the whole "studio" approach. This was also touched on by a few people on the Avid L2. The Final Cut approach involves too much offline/online thinking and too many round trips to separate applications.)

Take care -- Mark

--- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com, Jim Feeley <jfeeley@...> wrote:
>
> "The Pan and Zoom plug-ins let you create the photo animation style made
> popular by Ken Burns with intuitive controls and automatic motion control
> that achieves stunning results without a single keyframe."
>
> More info, download links here:
>
> <http://www.noiseindustries.com/fxfactory/panandzoom/>
>
> Note the plug-in requires Noise Industries' free FxFactory engine (also
> downloadable at the above page.
>
>
> Jim "found it via a Studiodaily advert email" Feeley
>

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