no, Final Cut Pro doesn't have the "Ken Burns Effect", which is simply a template of a simple animation. Instead, you would have to spend about 3 minutes creating the animation yourself. But, once you created the first one, you can save it and then apply it again and again, and have the "KathyMac Effect" sb On 1/23/03 11:18 AM, "KathyMac!" <Mac4Music at MusiCareOnline.org> wrote: > I really like what I have seen from the new iMovie 3 presentation Steve > made, particularly the Ken Burns effect. > > However, since I have not done a video project yet in either iMove or FCP I > would like to bypass getting my feet wet in iMovie and start directly in > FCP. I know it would be easier and perhaps even more fun in iMovie (and > certainly hardly a learning curve) but I don't want to be spending hours of > creative time making a project that cannot be utilized in FCP later or > relogged etc... > > My question is this: The one thing that would hold me back and keep me in > iMovie would be the Ken Burns effect because I would definitely use that. > Does FCP have that type of feature? > > Kathy