Sometimes you have to knock a photo montage out quickly, but you want to create something a little more intensive than simple still images with cross dissolves. Enter CoreMelt ImageFlow, a set of plugins for Final Cut Pro and Motion. Roger Bolton has written a detailed tutorial over at The Cow on how to use the plugins, and includes free download links for two of the filters demonstrated. I’ve often wished for a simple “Ken Burns Effect” checkbox in FCP, and am not ashamed to say that I’ve used iPhoto to quickly generate montages on occasion. The ImageFlow “Continuous Random Pan” looks like the FCP equivalent of that, but now I can really control the parameters and apply it where I need it. This is an informative tutorial that will demonstrate a “quick and dirty” way to knock out simple montages, without hours of keyframing and tweaking. Thanks Roger!