Issues with still photos (size/cropping) in IMovie

Hi,
I been searching and despite trying to solve this issue myself and through taking the advice given in similar posts, I still have not been able to resolve this issue.
When making a video/movie, my still pictures get cut up. The tops are noticeably cut and I didn't crop anything. I played with the widescreen vs. normal options, and still, tops are definitely cut off. There are several portrait or people pictures that are taken vertically instead of the "normal" horizontally for size or angle reasons. Another thing to note is that I do have a WIDE ANGLE camera. Some pictures it is absolutely essential that I have the FULL photo in, so what do I do?????? I been here for HOURS trying "trial and error" and I am getting soooo frustrated. ANd who is this Ken Burns guy?
I am learning here but need some assistance. Thanks!

You can disable Ken Burns by going to the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns Tab in the Inspector and choosing FIT or CROP. FIT will force your photo to fit the aspect ratio of the movie by adding black space.
CROP will chop off the top or bottom to make it fit. You will want to FIT.
Unless you would like to use the Ken Burns effect.....read on.
As you have observed, neither of these are ideal for portrait-oriented photos.
In iPhoto, the Ken Burns effect will automatically add black space so that portrait photos will work. However, in iMovie, there is no way to automatically add black space for Ken burns.
You can go into a photo editor like photoshop and add black bars to the side so that Ken Burns will work properly.
There is a way to do this automatically, and without using Photoshop, if you take the time to learn how to use Automator, which is a workflow tool that comes with your Mac.
(You can find Automator by clicking the spotlight magnifying lass at the top right of your screen. Then type in Automator.)
Set up an Automator Workflow to
1. Ask for Photos (You must select one or more photos and hit Select - you can make this easier by putting them in an album beforehand)
2. Copy Finder Items (give it a folder to copy to- so you can find them easily)
3. Pad Images. (put a check mark in "scale image before padding" and set for dimensions of your project.
Hit Run and a dialog box will come up asking you to select photos. When you are finished, press SELECT and the Automator script will keep running.
Then at the end you should have padded images in the folder you created in step 2.
Before you try Automator, take a look at [this website for some tutorials and videos.|http://automator.us/leopard>
There is a [Good Website here that includes Automator and Services for Snow Leopard|http://www.macosxautomation.com/index.html]
Here is the [Apple Discussions group for Automator|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1261]
If you create an Automator Workflow that you like, and you have Snow Leopard, you can create a SERVICE so that when you select a Photo in iPhoto or the Finder and right-click, your Workflow will be available on the contextual menu.

Similar Messages

  • Problem exporting Premiere Pro CS5.5 projects with still photos and h264 video

    I'm a longtime Final Cut Pro user and evaluating Premiere Pro for my workplace before making the switch. I have been running into several problems when I try to export raw h264 video from a Canon 5D combined with still images on a Macbook Pro. Either I receive an error in Premiere Pro saying, "Error compiling movie. Unknown error." or Adobe Media Encoder appears to continue exporting (the time elapsed bar continues to move) even though the time remaining stays frozen once it hits a photo it doesn't like. It's not always the same photo.
    I've spent several days trying to troubleshoot the issue, including batch resizing all photos to 1920 wide (to match the video settings), and it hasn't work. The sequence is currently set to render in ProRes 422. I've also tried HDV 1080p30 and MPEG-4. I cannot find any consistency with the errors. Occasionally an export will work, but every couple still photos will look like green static. I've also tried batch converting the photos in Photoshop to PNG and GIF without any luck. I'd include my default export settings but I've pretty much tried it all. I'm just trying to figure out what's causing the error since the message is very vague.
    Couple other notes:
    There's plenty hard drive space available for export
    I can export the DSLR video (h264, 1080p30) without still photos no problem
    I can edit the same still photos and video in Final Cut with no problem
    I have the same problem with auto-save on and off
    I tried re-installing production premium, deleting the preference files and cleaning the media cache - no luck. I also tried exporting under a different user account and it wouldn't work.
    This is driving absolutely crazy. I'm affraid to use PP on deadline because I don't see any issues until it's time to export. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
    - McKenna

    Thanks Todd. Your questions were actually very helpful. I'm using a Macbook Pro with an Intel Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics card. I'm running OS 10.6.8 and have the latest updates installed.
    When I disabled the GPU acceleration, I was able to render and export without a problem. The problem only occured when using the GPU acceleration and mixing h264 with still photos. It also affected both rendered previews and the final export. I'm assuming its a support issue with the graphics cards, but it would be great if you had any other ideas. I appreciate your help.

  • Issues with still images

    Hi there,
    I am having issues with still images in Adobe CS5.
    The thumbnail preview in the Project window, the thumbnail preview in the timeline, the source monitor view and the project monitor do not always show the same picture. It seems like Premiere mistakes a picture with another one. I have tried to remove and re-import the files, but still having the same issue.
    Let me explain it clearly: I use 2 pictures, say picture A and picture B.
    The preview (project window), the source (source monitor) and the project monitor all show picture A when I select either Picture A or B. The thumbnail in the timeline shows picture B for both files...
    Am I the only one with this issue ? I've tried to look for people with a similar experience, but I have not found anything...
    Thanks for your help.
    Nicolas.

    Re: Showing The Wrong Footage
    Re: Imports Wrong File
    Re: Wrong images appearing in project window / timeline
    Candidate for FAQ?

  • Photo Book - issue with generating full size picture in PDF file

    Need some assistance here.
    I have created a photo book that I would like to order. In the middle of the book I have 2 pages that contain a full size picture on each of the pages. When I generate the PDF file one of these two pictures do not generate correctly leaving an incorrectly rendered rectangle in the bottom left hand corner. 80% of the time it is on of the 2 large 8x10 pictures, the other 20% it is the other 8x10 picture. Aperture does indicate the dpi is large enough to support a quality 8x10 photo.
    I have exported jpeg files for each of these pictures and there were no problems. I am not sure by I have this problem in creating the PDF. Does any one see a potential issue with the book? When I order the photo book is it done through he PDF file or are the pictures sent in?
    Because of the issue I am cautious to order the Photo Book, but would like to do so.
    Any thought or feedback? Is this something that will come through as problem with the photo book as well?
    Thanks

    Hi ejg999,
    I have a similar problem running 10.5.2/ Aperture 2.0 trial.
    My 15800*4700 pixel (19.8mb) panorama was completely screwed up when printing the book to PDF. I did not span the pict over 2 pages as the center part would not be visible in the book's fold. I created 2 full size pages, resized the frames and adjusted their position.
    The print just shows hundreds of small squares, some seem ok, some are blue, some are rendered partially. Totally unusable.
    The physical memory was not the problem as I had at least 500mb free during the printing operation.
    I printed the book twice: same problem. I thought shutting down Aperture would resolve the error. but all my pics were gone. And the Time Machine did not backup while Aperture was running (still a bug). Aaaaaarghhhh.
    I managed to restore my work. I will try to create a smaller copy of the panorama and try to print.
    BTW, what is the size of your photo creating the problems?
    regards
    FranzMacN

  • Problem With Still Photos in iMovie 06

    I am creating a movie that includes still photos. The stills are all imported from iPhoto. The problem is, when i import some of them, the little red bar runs across the bottom of the photo and then it goes black. Photo appears to be gone, just a black frame left. It doesn't happen to all of them, just some. All are jpegs. Any ideas what the problem is?
    Thank you for your time.

    Hi
    And this 100Gb is on Your internal (start-up) drive ? Others don't count.
    *Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
    • Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
    • Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
    • Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
    • Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
    • Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
    • Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
    • Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
    • Screen must be set to Million-colors
    iMovie pref file resides:
    Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
    While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
    Now restart iMovie.
    From LKN 1935: (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
    Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
    there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
    iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
    to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
    Yours Bengt W

  • Problems setting duration for still photos and transitions in iMovie '11

    I downloaded iMovie 11 from the Apps Store last night and am trying to make my first movie with it today. I use still photos exclusively.
    For most - but not all - I like 5 seconds for photos and for transitions 2 seconds. I do vary this on occasion and so do not check "for all photos' or "for all transitions".
    I can't get these settings to work with this version of iMovie. For example, I added a photo (5 sec) then a transition (2 sec) which changed the duration time of the photo - as it should. But when I double clicked the photo, to bring up the inspector window to change the duration of the photo, nothing happened. Then I added another photo. The duration of the first photo increased to 7 seconds and nothing I do seemed to change that.
    The time increases seem random: for example, sometimes the time on the still photo increases to 6:29 sec, sometimes to 7 sec.
    The duration for the transitions always remains the same - 2 sec; it's the time for the photos that jumps around. And I haven't been able to find a way to get back to 5 sec.
    Before posting this, I researched and found an number of earlier posts detailing the same issues.
    However, none of these posts had stars to indicate the problem was solved.
    Has anyone found a solution or is this a bug that should be reported to Apple?

    Interesting!!
    I've spent a lot of hours on this too, but I have come up with a different solution perhaps because I like to vary both the image duration and the transition duration in my movies.
    Here's my process:
    -> Knowing that (a) I want most of the photos to be visible for 5 seconds and most transitions for 2 seconds and (b) that a transition takes half from the photo before and half from the photo after, under File>Project Properties>Photo Duration I chose 7 seconds - each photo will 'lose' a total of 2 seconds from the transitions in front and behind. I did not check either "Applies to all transitions." or "Applies to all photos." - See below for why.
    -> I discovered, as you have, that all the photos have to go in before I add any transitions. This was new to me. With all previous versions of iMovie I simply added a photo then a transition then another photo one at a time. I had to fiddle with the timing adjustments, but at least I could fiddle. With this new version of iMovie I can't. Once the transition is in place, I cannot change the duration of the photo.
    -> Sometimes, I want a longer or shorter duration for a photo. For example, on photos to which I apply the Ken Burns effect, I often want the image on the screen for a slightly longer time. In this case, I have to use the inspector to change the duration before I add the transitions. So I might set the time for 8 seconds; when both transitions are added, the time for this photo becomes 6 seconds, which is what I want.
    -> The same applies if I want a transition to be shorter or longer than 2 seconds. If, for example, I want the duration for a transition to be 1 second, then I have to change the duration on the two linked photos to 5 1/2 seconds.
    All of this requires much more prior planning than I am used to with iMovie. Right now, I working with batches of 5 or 6 photos at a time. I don't put a transition on the last photo in the batch until I have added the next group of photos. And things get really tricky if I don't like my original design. If I want to change anything, I have to take out all of the transitions linking the photos I want to work on, do the math, make the changes in the photo durations, then put the transitions back.
    Perhaps I am trying to make iMovie do more than it was intended to do, I don't know. Perhaps this problem stems from the fact that I bought just iMovie 11 from the Mac Apps Store and not the entire iLife 11. Don't know that either. But at least I have found a way to make the movie look the way I want it to look.
    Thanks for sharing your process. I will use it when the circumstances are right.

  • Any issues with still images being too large?

    I am going to be given lots of images that were scanned at a high resolution (I think 300), so the file size and physical dimensions should be pretty large. I want to start placing these images into the timeline, even though I do not know yet which ones I will need to zoom in on and which I will not need to do anything with other than just have it display.
    1.) Are there any issues with placing lots of images like these into the timeline of a SD project at a higher resolution and larger physical dimension than maybe necessary?
    2.) If I want to use placeholder images, is there an easy way to later swap them with the real image, and have the swapped image take the properties of the placeholder image, such as the duration it lasts on screen and the fade transition before and after it?
    Thank you.

    1.) Are there any issues with placing lots of images like these into the timeline of a SD project at a higher resolution and larger physical dimension than maybe necessary?
    This is dependent on the version of FCP. If you're working with FCP 5.1.2 or later, still image processing is handled by the GPU. Depending on what graphics card you've got, it can be painfully slow even at SD resolutions because image size (pixel dimensions, not bit-depth) is what is relevant.
    2.) If I want to use placeholder images, is there an easy way to later swap them with the real image, and have the swapped image take the properties of the placeholder image, such as the duration it lasts on screen and the fade transition before and after it?
    In theory, you should be able to do a Paste Attributes and paste Contents but that functionality has been broken since FCP 5.x. It works, but not for the very thing that you'd need it to do - both images now need to be the same size, duration and matching timecode for this to work correctly in your case.
    However, you might be able to work around that limitation by trying this:
    Select your placeholder image in the timeline and copy (Commmand-C)
    Load your final image into the Viewer and press F11 to perform a Replace Edit.
    Be mindful of where your Playhead is in both the Viewer and Timeline, of course, as the Replace Edit uses the Playhead and not marked In or Out
    Select the newly replaced image and perform a Paste Attributes (Option-V), selecting the relevant attributes (Basic Motion, Crop, etc)
    Of course, this might not suit what you're looking to do since stuff like Center is pixel-based rather than percentage-based (like Crop is).

  • Issue with Windows Photo Viewer: "can't save picture because an unknown error occured"

    Hi,
    I recently installed Windows 7 RC (Build 7100). I quite often have an issue in Windows Photo Viewer when rotating an image and trying to go to the next picture. It gives me the error "Windows Photo Viewer can't save picture because an unknown error occured".
    Seperate from this issue: when I delete a picture in Windows Photo Viewer, it is still in the Windows Explorer overview of files. This did not use to be the case in Windows XP?
    Kind regards,
    Frederik

    Hi
    SOSv2 ,
    This should be fixed in Windows 7 RTM.
    Also, you can install Windows Live Photo Gallery to view and rotate pictures as well. To download it, please click
    HERE . For more information about Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can
    a question on
    Windows Live Answers
    In addition, please understand that Nikon RAW images (and most Canon) do not support rotate functionality in Windows Photo Viewer, and thus rotate is
    disabled. To rotate those types of images, the user will need to use an image editing program that fully supports their RAW codec.
    Regards,
    Linda
    I am using Win 7 x64 Ultimate RTM and still have this problem (with JPG's dumped from my Nikon to the hard drive).  Doesn't do it on every one that I rotate, but still very annoying.  Is there a fix?

  • Claymation with still photos

    I am looking for help in importing digital still photos from iphoto to imovieHD 6.0.3. I am trying to set a very short play time so that when viewed as a whole the photos become an animation of three clay figures. I've seen it done w/ older versions of imovie. I've selected all of the photos in the clip viewer and shortened the duration via the photo properties panel and this didn't shorten the play time. I've been able to individually click on clips and set the play time to a shorter length for each individual clip but haven't been able to do this for all of the clips at once, and there are hundreds of them at this point. If anybody has any ideas on how to process all of the clips at once I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

    Thank you for the advice. I am not sure if I am clearly understanding your directions. I have clicked the media tab and opened the iphoto library that I want to import. I can see all of the thumbnails. I have selected all of the photos and opened the photo settings box. I've unchecked the KB effect and entered the 00:00:00:01 in the duration box. When I click apply my still photos are imported into the timeline with a duration of 0:09:29. When I select all of the photos in the timeline and click <show photo settings> and then set the duration using the slider to 0:03 (which is the shortest amount of time that it is allowing) it imports the photos with a duration of 0:09:29. It looks like I'll have to hand enther the duration into every "clip" in the timeline.

  • How can I put a still photo in to a iMovie tralier  on the iPad 2

    How can I put a still photo into a iMovie tralier on a iPad 2

    Here's one way.
    You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.
    Plug the USB flash drive into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov).
    Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import.
     Cheers, Tom

  • Still Photo Size

    Just transitioning to FCPX from FCP Express.
    I am getting ready to put together a "slide show" consisting of only still photos in FCPX. It will be projected on a 10' screen with a Sanyo PLC-XU110 projector, NTSC SD, interlaced. I am planning on preparing all of the photos in Photoshop.
    I'm assuming I should use 640x480 as the size for the "slides", or does it matter as long as I use 4:3 aspect ratio? Does FCPX scale them?
    Also, does ppi matter when it comes to FCPX? Does it have to be standard screen resolution of 72ppi? If so, what happens when you zoom-in or use Ken Burns? Does it pixellate? I'm kind of freaked about projecting this from a DVD player onto a 10' screen. Any help from a person experienced in this will be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks.

    I'm assuming you mean irrelevant?
    If that's the case, no response necessary.
    Thank you.

  • Has anyone with OS X 10.7.5 had issues with corrupt photos?

    We are suddenly experiencing an issue with our iMac where photos we have taken recently are now coming up with the image below.  They appear fine at first in the finder view but as soon as we open them they turn into the below and then others in the same folder do the same.  We copied the files to another computer and it opens the same.  Apple Support is having me do an OS reeinstall, but I want to know if others are having the same issue.

    Hello Drew,
    Bootup holding CMD+r, or the Option/alt key to boot from the Restore partition & use Disk Utility from there to Repair the Disk, then Repair Permissions.

  • Cs6 issue with still frame duration setting not working, possibly yosemite problem

    Hi, I moved my project over to my iMac, which I updated to Yosemite awhile back. Suddenly the frame duration for stills setting defaults to 5 even though it is set at 2 for my animation project. What gives?
    I just bought my master collection two years ago and spent a pretty penny. There were updates for the Mavericks update but none for Yosemite? I think there need to be and people spend too much money on these products for the support option to be so skimpy.
    Hopefully someone answers this issue with a solution. Otherwise, I will not speak highly of Adobe.

    As suggested by someone on a different forum, I tried downgrading the firmware to 7.6.1. By doing so, the problems disappeared and WPA2 only mode works correctly. I will file a bug report with Apple.

  • I am having an issue with video file size increasing after editing in iMovie 11

    So I start off my iMovie 11 video project with a .mp4 video file of roughly 900MB.  After chopping off the beginning and ending (which is all I want to do) I have attempted finalizing and exporting using numerous options.  The problem is, each time I do this my file turns into a 3.9GB .mov file!  I don't want a huge file, I don't want a changed format file.  I simply want to cut off the beginning and ending of my movie and leave everything else the same.  Theoretically, this should make the file SMALLER since I am removing footage.  Correct?
    As  you can probably tell, I am new to all this.  But can anyone tell me how to keep my .mp4 file extension and simply delete the start and end?
    Thanks!

    The simple answer is, Don't Use iMovie.
    If you want to just trim off pieces you can do that in QuickTime X, which is already installed on your Mac. Open the movie in the QuickTime X player. Now go to the Edit Menu and choose Trim... At the bottom of the window you will see a series of thumbnail images with a yellow highlighted box around it. To cut off the beginng pull in the handle along the left hand side of the yellow box. Same is true for the end grab the yellow handle on the right side and pull it in as well. Then click the Trim button, now you've got just the piece of the video you want to save. Now go to File > Save As... set the Format to be Movie (to keep it in the same file format as it started as.
    This avoids all the transcoding/conversion that goes on when you import a video into iMovie.

  • Great output from iMovie with still photos

    I have made a great movie using just stills in iMovie.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Crs1Mx92js
    Enjoy!
    Ian

    Just tried to be witty.
    One starts to associate in a predictable way - some times. As my fellow student.
    Have no AppleTV
    Have no broad-band internet - still 50kb modem V.92
    So my interest is howto get as good result possibly to share - and DVD or BD-DVDs
    are the only solution I've got via iM'08 or 09 or 11
    Else (iM6/FC) - I copy back To Camera or if small save out as QT on DVD or BD-DVD.
    Wish I could figure out a way to get all funny things in iM'11 and over in HD resolution
    on just anything.
    - Will try if I can get it out on USB-memory - one way or another.
    Yours Bengt W

Maybe you are looking for