Apple Final Cut Pro X (10.0.9) - Manual (Page 224)

Chapter 10 Add transitions, titles, effects, and generators 224
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 define.
The Ken Burns effect is actually a Crop effect with two crop settings, one at the clip start and
another at its end.
Adjust the Ken Burns effect
1 Select a clip in the Timeline.
2 To access the Ken Burns controls, do one of the following:
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Choose Crop from the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the Viewer (or press Shift-C).
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Control-click in the Viewer and choose Crop from the shortcut menu.
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. An arrow is
superimposed to show the direction the image travels when the clip is played.
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 loop.
The default start and end settings result in a small zoom to the center of the image.
4 To choose the part of the image that appears at the start of the effect, drag the green handles to
change the crop size of the image and drag the window to set its position.
5 To choose the part of the image that appears at the end of the effect, drag the red handles to
change the crop size of the image and drag the window to set its position.
6 To have the clip with the effect play in a loop, click the Play Loop button.
7 To exchange the start and end positions, click the Swap button.
8 Click Done.