IMovie 10.0.3 Ken burns not smooth

I am using iMovie 10.0.3 on my MacPro, I created a movie with 140 clips, each of them connected with transitions and all of them with ken burns effect and audio. After working fine for days, I noticed suddently that the zoom in and out of the Ken burns is not smooth but jerked. I would appreciate any help on this.
S.

Maybe if its too large to all be in RAM and has to load in sections from disk. But this won't affect the final shared movie.
You can join two movies together using Quicktime Player. I use QT Player 7 but QT Player 10 can do it too. Its very fast and doesn't affect quality. I find it advantageous to split big projects into subprojects each not longer than 15 minutes, then join them together this way after sharing. You don't have 'all your eggs in one basket' and its quicker when doing final corrections to only have to re-share the part of a movie needing updating.
Geoff.

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Is the photo you're trying to apply the Ken Burns effect to in a Project? It won't work if it's just in an Event.
More details here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#movc6e02f503
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov26d3f6a6c
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Imovie 10.0.1 - ken burns error..

Hi!
I`ve got a big problem with the iMovie 10.0.1.
Its working on iMovie 9.0.4
After I installed it it is not possible for me to use the "Ken Burns" effect anymore
It is greyed out, and I can not move the "Start" and "Stop" to a new position. It is locked somehow.
Can u help me? :/
I`m using OSX Maveric.

Is the photo you're trying to apply the Ken Burns effect to in a Project? It won't work if it's just in an Event.
More details here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#movc6e02f503
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov26d3f6a6c
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Resist wrote:
... iMovie for iPhone 4
to quote our forum's host Eric W.:
The forum for iMovie for iOS 4 devices can be found here
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1379

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Is the photo you're trying to apply the Ken Burns effect to in a Project? It won't work if it's just in an Event.
More details here:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#movc6e02f503
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov26d3f6a6c
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http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4176921#4176921
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Idvd not capturing the ken burns or full picture view.

I am making a memorial video and have ken burns that are acutallly cutting out the focused object rather than zooming. I tried to burn standard and widescreen and nothing is correcting. Please advise

Q: ken burns that are acutallly cutting out the focused object rather than zooming.
A: Did you manually set / adjust the Zoom while using Ken Burns effect? (see links below to see how to perform this). Also apple's tutorials are worth watching for iPhoto, iMovie, and iDvd if you haven't yet done so.
IMovie '09 & IDVD: The Missing Manual
By David Pogue
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/movies-video/36798-idvd-ken-burns-effect-automa ted-slideshows.html
http://maccreate.com/imovie/imovie-803-imovie-09-adds-crop-ken-burns-for-video
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/?cmp#iphoto
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV554Z/A
Hope this helps but if not just come on back.
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Ken Burns on photos greater than 60 seconds?

I want to have one photo showing for the full 4:45 duration of a song with a slow, smooth, Ken Burns pan from beginning to end. Is there a way to do this? I tried on iMovie HD and iMovie '08 but can not find out how. It looks like to get greater than 60 seconds you have to import the photo 5 times (4 with a 60 sec duration and 1 with a 45 sec duration). How can you then apply a single Ken Burns effect across all 5 photos as if they were one photo? I tried to make a Podcast in GarageBand and there I could make the photo as long as I wanted with the music but there is no Ken Burns effect available there. I saved the podcast and then imported it into iMovie to apply the Ken Burns effect but it is not available to videos in iMovie, which it what the photo turns into after GarageBand saves it. Any help would be appreciated.

Is there a way to group the photos and apply a KBE across the grouping?
No. The KBE tool can currently only be applied to a single image.
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Karsten,
Those are beautiful effects. My complements! Will have to try doing more work with stills using pre-edits in Photoshop.

That darn Ken Burns effect

I started a thread in the iPhoto forum, and got my answer. However, it opened up a new question which led me here. This was my original question: "I am losing it here trying to simply drag a photo from iPhoto into iMovie without it coming in with that #$@**Ken Burns effect. I cannot find any way to turn it off, except in a slide show. I don't have or want a slideshow. I just want to use still photos in iMovie. (Both are version 6, running OS 10.4)" As I said, I did get my answer, but someone also said this: "iPhoto just gives you the Picture. It's iMovie that supplies the ken Burns effect."
So now my question is, what can I do on the iMovie side to NOT apply the effect when dragging photos in from iPhoto?
Right now I am having to select each photo in iPhoto, in the media bin, uncheck Ken Burns, save it, then import it.
Any help? Thanks.
Regards

Ben
That was brilliant! Shout it to the world. Not only did each subsequently dragged photo hold the effect of the first, but I had the ability to move the content of the photo within itself (as though the pan and zoom effect was there but fixed as I want it to be).
Great. Thanks.
noodlehead - hapPY

Ken Burns effect on imported iphoto photos

Using iMovie 6 updated, when applying KB effect to iPhoto photos imported to either clip board or timeline, the photo renders to black on the timeline. I can import photos if I don't apply KB effect. What do I do? Go back to an earlier edition of iMovie like iMovie 5 which seemed to work? I hope not!

Hi Mike:
Welcome to discussions!
It may be this iMovie 6 bug:
Updating Ken Burns stills works only until you empty the trash in iMovie HD 6.0.3
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#stillupdate
Sue

How come sometimes the Ken Burns effect allows you to edit the entire picture, and other times it automatically starts at a smaller section of the photo?

How come, in imovie, when adding the Ken Burns effect to a still photo, sometimes the phoo appears as the full size, and other times, the green and red ken burns boxes appear only on a smaller portion of the picture? I want to be able to Ken Burns a bigger chunk of a picture, but often times it is as if there is a pre-set for just how much the Ken Burns will cover.

Is it possible that the ones that have small boxes are in Portrait while the ones with large boxes are in Landscape?
If so, you can get bigger boxes on the Portrait ones by clicking "Allow Black" in iMovie 11. (iMovie 09 did not have this feature.)

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I want to globally turn off the Ken Burns effect for my 722 slides in my iMove slide show. I have clicked on Project Properties, Timing, Fit in Frame, apply to all.
But still it won't go away. I really don't want to do one at a time. What else can I do?

Click on one of the thumbnail images in the project timeline, then select "Edit > Select All" from the menu. All clips in the project will now be highlighted with a yellow border.
Now click on the small gear icon on one of the images. From the drop-down menu select "Cropping & Rotation". (Alternatively, click on the Crop, Rotate & Ken Burns tool in the centre toolbar - or simply press the C key on the keyboard).
In the Viewer, select Fit (in the top left corner). All clips will now be changed to Fit.
It's best when starting a new project to choose your preference from "File > Project Properties", then make a selection for the item "Initial Photo Placement". iMovie's default is Ken Burns (as you've discovered).
John

Photo To Movie - A solution to Jaggy edges to a moving still? (Ken Burns)

Hello Hello
I know folks have talked about this before ......
I recently received a tip about 'Photo to Movie', and how it improves those Jaggy images (the outer parameter of a photo), that can be seen in both Quicktime (on your computer screen), AND from a burned DVD on your TV.
Well I have to admit that 'Photo to Movie' definitely helps remove the Jaggies.
BUT
Is is just me - or is it true that there is less quality in those panned and zoomed images as compared to iMovie? It certainly looks so to me ...... perhaps less detail .... on the TV screen
Ya know when iMovie HD came out, I immediately saw an improvement in the resolution of burned movies onto a DVD on the TV.
I've read the other posts about the Jaggy problem in Pans and Zooms including these solutions:
Workaround #1 is to turn ON the Ken Burns Effect before importing an image.
(I always do that)
Workaround #2 is to convert still images to good quality video with Photo To Movie. Photo To Movie and Still Life have more features than iMovie's built-in Ken Burns effect. Photo To Movie's High Quality setting renders still images into very good quality video that doesn't flicker when viewed on a TV.
(I just bought Photo to Movie - it works)
But again is there a trade off in perhaps less detail in the images?
Thanx

When you look at movies, or frames of movies, in iMovie, you're looking at the entire frame. So if you import photos into iMovie, and don't use any panning or zooming, you'll see the entire photo ..but - as Karsten and Matthew say - at a reduced quality than the original photo(s), because movie resolution is lower than photo resolution.
To create a zoom out or pan effect across a picture, you obviously have to start with a smaller area of the picture than the area of the full photo. You then travel across the photo, still using a smaller area than the full photo, or you zoom out until you're looking at the entire photo.
If you start with a smaller section that the full photo, then if the photo has only a little higher resolution than video (..say it's a 3 megapixel photo..) then that smaller section has to be automatically enlarged to fill the entire video frame, so the apparent resolution of that smaller area of the entire picture will probably appear to be less sharp than the overall, entire photo.
It's like examining a newspaper photo with a magnifying glass: you'll start to see the detail of the dots which comprise the photo, instead of seeing the overall photo as a whole.
The higher the resolution of the original photo - e.g; 8 or 10 megapixels - the less will seem to be the quality loss as you pan or zoom across a small region of it.
But if you start with a 2, 3 or perhaps 5 megapixel photo, then - depending on how far you zoom "into" it - you may well see a poorer quality image in the panned or zoomed sections than you would see on the overall image.
..As in the film "Blow-Up" ..the more you magnify something, the less clear it can become ..unless maybe you're using an electron microscope..

Ken Burns start and stop points

In iMovie, when using the Ken Burns effect how can I set the start and stop points to be the same? I don't want to just use "Crop" because my understanding is that using the Ken Burns effect will result in a clearer still photo.

The renderer that is used when the Ken Burns effect is on does give a clearer still photo when converted to video. On an older version of iMovie I could set the startpoint and then use a key-sequence that was a shortcut to set the endpoint to be the same as the startpoint. I was hoping there was a similar feature with the newer version of iMovie. Then I wouldn't have to adjust the start and stop rectangles for a 100 photos.

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