Free Final Cut Pro plugin: Alex 4D Grow-Shrink effect
This Final Cut Pro X effect animates a change in scale for a clip. It defaults to increasing the size of a clip by 5% over the lifetime of the clip. This kind of ‘creep in’ is useful for adding a little subliminal interest to stills and titles.
You can also choose a centre point for the scaling to happen around. This helps to zoom in on an interviewee, or zoom out from a specific part of the frame.
Here are the controls:
Start Scale and End Scale: The effect defaults to starting at 100% (Start Scale: 0%) and scaling up to 105% (End Scale: 5%). To scale from 110% to 75%, use Start Scale: 10% and End Scale: -25%.
Curvature: the shape of the animation curve. 0% will use the same speed to change scale throughout the clip. 100% will start to scale gradually, then scale at full speed and slow down towards the end of the clip. This simulates the way a camera operator would zoom in or zoom out of a clip.
Start Scaling Late and Start Scaling Early control for how much of the lifespan of the clip the scaling happens.
Centre Point: You can set this using an on-screen control
Using these controls:
The clip will scale from 150% of its normal size down to 50% of its normal size, the 100% curvature means it will start scaling slowly scale quickly and finish scaling slowly. The scaling will start after 10% of the duration of the clip on the timeline and finish at half the duration of the clip. The clip will scale around a point to the left and above the centre point of the clip:
Download the installer
If you find this free plugin useful, you might like my Alex4D Animation Transitions plugin pack:
Find out more about Alex4D Animation Transitions.
There are many more free plugins on my Final Cut Pro X page
Oh my, this is a really neat, subtle and useful one :-)) THANKS alex. Brilliant !
Alex. Great job. Using this on finishing up a student feature. Used it hundreds of times. Incredible time saver.
This sounds great! Do you know a similar plugin for Fcp 7?
Sadly no.
It’s been so long that I’ve created any Final Cut Pro 7 effects it would take me too long to learn how to do make one for you.
Sorry!
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how to download?
Click ‘the installer’ in the text ‘Download the installer’ above or Click the ‘Alex4D Grow-Shrink Installer.app’ installer icon.
Woohoo, Alex, I’m here in Aug 2018! Gonna download this from being inspired by Ryan Welborn’s recent tweet that he uses this plug-in. 🙂
Hmmm not seeing it in FCPX after it says it was successfully installed. Probably not compatible with High Sierra 10.13.5, FCPX 10.4.3?
Works fine on macOS 10.14.5 & FCPX 10.4.6. Shows up under Effects, and once dragged on an image, controls appear in Video Inspector.