Curves for Final Cut brings powerful animation tools right into the Final Cut Pro timeline.
With Curves, you can easily create fluid animations, adjusting the position, rotation, and scale of a clip along one of seven parametric animation curve families.
Apply Curves from the Effects browser to any compound clip in the timeline. You can turn any clip into a compound clip by right clicking a clip and selecting "New Compound Clip". Compound clips are required to prevent clipping when animating a clip's position due to Final Cut Pro's plugin architecture. Apply Curves to an Adjustment Clip to animate several clips at once.
After applying Curves to a clip, you can adjust all of the animation properties in the inspector. Select one of seven animation curve families to control the shape of your animation. You can choose between Linear, Smooth (ease both), Accelerate (ease in), Decelerate (ease out), Overshoot, Bounce, and Custom. Use the configurable sliders or graph handles to adjust the parameters of your animation curve, and view the resulting curve in the graph viewer.
Use the on-screen controls to click and drag clips into place. Insert a keyframe by using the "Add Keyframe" button next to the Position, Rotation, or Scale parameters inside of the Curves Effect in the inspector. Move the timeline forward and click and drag the clip or adjust a parameter in the inspector to create a new keyframe. You can create as many keyframes as you'd like on a given clip.
Adjust motion blur by configuring the amount of blur and the number of blur samples. Note that increasing blur samples may impact performance.
Use different animation curves at different times by adding keyframes to the curve editor. Use the "Add Keyframe" button in the upper left of the graph editor to insert a curve shape keyframe. You can use curve editor keyframes to change what curve the animations in your timeline will use at a given point in time.
To get started, open the Curves app and follow the instructions to install or upgrade the effect template. This is required after installing or updating Curves. Next, restart Final Cut Pro. You should now see the Curves effect in the Effects Browser.
Note that Curves requires Final Cut Pro installed in order to function.
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Excellent—I never write reviews.
Carter Juncal
This product is fantastic. I use FCPX, Motion, + AE to make concert tour visuals, often in crazy resolutions and aspect ratios. this product is a game changer and will keep me in FCPX for much longer. What would usually take me three or four instances of EasyEase, can now be done in one single FX unit. Plus, the on-screen snapping is incredibly useful—it intelligently snaps to your other keyframes’ X and Y coordinates!! I legitimately assumed OSC snapping for FCPX was impossible, since no other plugin company had bothered to do it. Bravo to the Curves developer, and I thank you for your service to the community. Do you know how to fix the issue where you need to pre comp first to go beyond the source’s aspect ratio? I assume this is unfixable.
Impressive and Polished
Stevemd24
The ease of use and presentation are very polished. To the point it could be confused for a native FCP effect. The developer is also quick to respond to issues and makes it a priority to fix them. As someone who has enjoyed EasyEase from FX Factory, I was disappointed by the lack of on screen controls and no updates for a long time. These are things that the developer of Curves seems keen to tackle. I look forward to the further development of this app. One suggestion that could be an added (if possible) is circular easing curves. This is the only reason now I still keep EasyEase as it has Circular Ease out.
100% Recommended
Exodus222
If you do motion in FCP you should get it 100%, even the creator is very friendly if you have any suggestions you can tell him that and he will look into it ;). If you’re still hesitating don’t just take it and take the W.
It’s pretty nice. But sure to read the documentation when you first use it.
Strangerzero
This little add-on does as promised and adds curves to clips and objects in your timeline. I was puzzled at first why the curves were not using the full frame, but I went to the developer website and read that the first thing you must do is make the clip or object on the timeline a compound clip. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. Once I did that Curves is a joy to use. The motion blur effect is quite nice. It would be cool to have some presets such as spiral on a circular path, spiral on a square path etc. because motion like this would need a lot of keyframes. All in all this is a very useful add-on to FCP.
- Add anchor point parameter: Hold the option key and drag the control point to offset the anchor point
- Improve motion blur for large slow-moving objects
- Fix scaling bug when scaling with Final Cut's built-in transform
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