ABSTRACT
Final Cut Express (FCE) has considerable capabilities for animating images. It allows to enhance productions and create exciting, interesting, and artistic scenes. This chapter focuses on FCE's motion capabilities. The Motion tab holds all of the motion parameters that can be animated in FCE. Most of them, with the exception of Opacity, Drop Shadow, and Motion Blur, can be keyframed in the Canvas. The basic concept of keyframing is to mark the properties for a clip at a particular frame. The first keyframeable property in the Motion window is Scale. The Anchor Point is the pivot point around which the image swings. It’s also the point around which scaling takes place. Drop Shadow gives a multilayered image a three-dimensional appearance, and it gives titles and moving images some depth and separation. The Angle control allow to change the direction in which the shadow drops onto the underlying layers.
