ABSTRACT
Final Cut Express has considerable capabilities for animating images. It allows viewer to enhance their productions and create exciting, interesting, and artistic scenes. In this chapter, the author concentrates on FCE's motion capabilities. In the Canvas, the center point turns green when the playhead is on the key frame. In the sequence in viewer Browser called Curved Motion Path, the author have created a simple motion path that shows this feature. The default drop shadow settings work well for stills and other large images, but not so well for text. Drop Shadow gives a multi-layered image a three-dimensional appearance. It gives titles and moving images some depth and separation. In addition to the little triangles next to the key frame buttons in the Motion tab, reader can also use keyboard shortcuts to move between key-frames. Shift-K will take reader to the next key frame, and Option-K will take reader to the previous key frame.
