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375Final Cut Pro User Guide
Animate built-in effects
When you animate a built-in effect, you modify the effect’s settings at two or more points
in time and set keyframes at these points. When the clip plays, the video changes smoothly
between the keyframes, creating an animated effect.
This applies to all built-in effects except the Ken Burns effect, which has a different
workflow. See
Pan and zoom clips in Final Cut Pro.
1. Select a clip in the Final Cut Pro timeline.
2. Click the pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the viewer and choose the effect you
want to animate.
For this example, choose Transform (or press Shift-T).
3. Position the timeline playhead at the start of the clip.
4. Adjust the effect’s onscreen controls to set the start position.
See Final Cut Pro onscreen control examples.
In the example shown below, the scale of the video frame was reduced by dragging a
corner handle.
5. Click the Add Keyframe button in the upper part of the viewer.
6. Move the playhead to the end of the clip.