Jerky ken burns zoom

i made slide show in iphoto, used some custom ken burns, then when imported to idvd6, the zooms sometimes are jerky when previwed in idvd; also, what i see on the preview in slide show i photo isnt always what ends up happening........

When you empty the iMovie 6 Trash, there's a bug that (inappropriately) discards the copy of the source image iMovie stores inside the project. That makes it impossible to Update the clip later. When you try, that turns the clip black.
Lots more here, with some workarounds:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=392740&tstart=0
Karl

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    I want to line up two still frames--one that ends after a Ken Burns zoom (in) and the following one that "freezes" where the zoom ended. Is there a way to nudge the location of the ending zoom (or beginning zoom for the following frame)? When I try this I don't have fine enough mouse control to line them up accurately so there is a small jump from one to the next.
    Any help?

    I want to line up two still frames--one that ends after a Ken Burns zoom (in) and the following one that "freezes" where the zoom ended. Is there a way to nudge the location of the ending zoom (or beginning zoom for the following frame)?
    Very easily done.
    1) Create original KBE.
    2) Select the image containing the KBE and press "Command-C" to copy data/settings to temporary memory.
    3) De-select the image, move playhead to end of segment, and press "Command-V" to copy data to project window.
    4) Select the newly added image and open the Crop Tool window.
    5) Press the Start-End Revers icon to swap red and green KBE windows.
    6) With the old End window now set as the new Start window, press the "Crop" button.
    7) exit the Crop Tool window and set the timing duration for the "Hold" image.
    If you have followed these instruction correctly, you should now have a seamless transition from your KBE image to your "still" image.

  • Jerky Ken Burns effect

    I am using iMovie 10 on a mac desktop with all the latest software. In some photos in my 4 min video, the Ken Burns effect is jerky, even after sharing the video to a .mp4 file. The photos are of good quality and resolution (I use iPhoto). Is there a way to smooth the zoom effect?
    I made a sample clip (5.7MB) but can't post it here, apparently.

    Even though my stomach turns when people call a move on a still "The Ken Burns Effect," I'm going to supress my revulsion and try to assist. 
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    I can't envision the jerkiness you're describing.  It could be an interlace issue, from how you describe it.  If that's the case, render progressive.

  • IPhoto slideshow export -- jerky Ken Burns rendering

    Have an iPhoto slideshow of 25 pictures. On some, I used Ken Burns effect to zoom in, out, etc.
    When I export, the result is a .mov file. Everything looks great when I play it on Quicktime, except for some of the photos on which I had used Ken Burns (meaning there's motion). The bad ones don't render properly, and are "jerky" for lack of a more technical word. They get stuck for a couple of seconds, jump forward, get stuck again, etc.
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    2) What caused the jerkiness in the first place? Is there something I can do so the original output from iPhoto on Ken Burns photos isn't jerky?
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    Kirk,
    Did what you suggested, with some tweaks, and it's working nicely. Exported at 3MB/sec -- 2MB didn't render well enough. Tried MPEG-4, and then Sorenson again, and actually the Sorenson worked better for some reason.
    So thanks, and now I have one follow up question: My next step is to convert the file to .wmv format so it plays on Windows Media Player. Must do this for a project at work -- where people are on PCs using WMP.
    I purchsed Flip4Mac a while ago for this purpose, and that's what I intend to use. Can I simply convert the file exactly as is to .wmv -- keeping all the goodness of the settings that are now working? Will this be an export of an export that will damage the quality of the result?
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  • Jerky Ken Burns when burning to DVD

    Hi all - tried finding an answer to this but not much luck - anyway the problem is I made a simple movie in imovie 08 using only photos, music and Ken Burns effect on some pics. the presentation runs smooth as silk on my iMac 24" - so then I try burning the movie to DVD using iDVD. I slot the DVD in a player and it looks very average. The picture resolution is low - should I export to a higher level of resolution? Then the Ken Burns effect is jerky - not massively but still not smooth. Please help I really want to be able to export/burn movies that look great and run smooth but can't find out how to do this,
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  • Imovie ken burns zoom on video problem

    Hello, can you help?
    Im running imovie 11 on an mba
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    Select the clip I want, apply ken burns, and the same is suddenly applied to all clips again!
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    Go to "file" then "project properties" and change "widescreen" to "standard" and it will be normal again I had this same problem sorry you had to go through that

  • Holding the end of a Ken Burns frame

    I want to hold the end of a Ken Burns zoom. The input is a _slide or photo_, not a film clip. How do I create this effect?

    Here is how you do it.
    1) Select the photo in the iMovie project and set the Ken Burns start and end rectangles.
    2) With the Photo selected, select Edit/Copy and then Paste a duplicate of the photo behind the first photo.
    3) Select the second instance of the Photo and select the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns tool. It should already be set to Ken Burns mode. I would move the start green rectangle so that it overlays the red end rectangle exactly.
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    5) Click DONE and you are done.

  • Ken Burns effect causing photos to show static

    As the subject line suggests I am getting a sizzle effect, like sparkling pixel static across my photos when the Ken Burns zoom is in progress. It is uniform across the entirety of the photo. THis is in imovie hd 6.0.4 on my new imac 21.5 with system 10.6.4 These are photos taken with 12mp dsl camera and I notice some other older photos taken with 4mp camera point and shoot do not show this distraction. Something up with the rendering of high res stills ? THis does not happen in Ilife 09's imovie.
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    I had the same problem with iMovie 9. I found a solution that worked for me at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12544852&#12544852

  • How do I turn OFF the Ken Burns effect in slideshows--it defaults there no matter if selected or not.

    The Ken Burns zoom and pan appears on every slide in every slide show - despite the Ken Burns box NOT ever being checked.
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    Simple.
    I have a Ken Burns zoom on a photo. I want to fade in from black onto the photo.
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    This must be a software glitch in this version.

    Hi Mary
    Don't know of the problem but I can suggest how I would solve it.
    I would - before applying fade in or out - export out the Ken-Burns zoomed
    photos to a new miniDV tape and then import this part again and try to apply
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    Hi,
    does anyone here know a free or commercial slideshow component for AS3 (must work with flex 3) which does the following:
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    ken burns zooming and panning with per image definition (eg. with xml file)
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    dynamically resizable frame size (so it can be used as a browser background)
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    Chris:
    The export method you used creates a 640 x 480 QT file. If you use the Share->Send to iDVD menu option that will create a 720 x 540 QT file, save it in the Movies folder and automatically put it in iDVD. That should produce a higher image quality final product. If you have an iDVD project already started open it before starting the Share procedure so it will be the selected destination. In any case the larger QT movie will be saved to your Movies folder so you can include it manually is desired.
    Do you Twango?
    TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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  • Ken Burns vs Photo to Movie test

    I did a quick simple test to see how iMovie's Ken Burns and Photo to Movie manage high resolution, high frequency still images as their input:
    I made a 3150x1728 (5 megapixel) TIF image. I chose that particular ratio because it completely fills both NTSC and PAL 16:9 frame when imported to iMovie HD 5-6's widescreen project.
    I inserted 1 pixel thin horizontal and vertical black stripes at every 100 pixel. That kind of thin (high frequency) lines tend to flicker on a TV unless they are blurred.
    Then I imported the still to a widescreen NTSC (I chose NTSC for Karl, Fred, Kirk and other NTSC-geared geeks iMovie HD 6.0.3 project and applied a 2 second 1-5x zoom to it.
    I did a similar zoom with Photo to Movie 3.2.2's High Quality export setting and compared the results...
    Well, the iMovie zoom-in was quite interesting: at modest zoom factors many stripes were omitted and the stripes disappeared and appeared as the zoom progressed! Some stripes were rendered grayish, but they were always 1 pixel thin (a recipe for flicker on a TV!). Only near the end of the zoom-in, all the stripes appeared and begun to grow thicker (and non-flickery on a TV).
    The Photo to Movie zoom-in was much "duller": all stripes were preserved and they were slightly blurred (which prevents flicker on a TV).
    The winner: Photo to Movie.
    The input TIF and 2 second output .dv files are below (to my surprise the 15 MB input zipped to only 1.8 MB with this material). I turned ON the high quality display for you in the .dv files, but verify that the setting sticks when viewing them with QuickTime Player Pro. You can advance one frame at a time via the left/right arrow keys.
    http://www.saunalahti.fi/~shmhav/kenburnstest.zip

    Discussing DVD playback on a TV, Matti said:
    The output that used the original TIF as its input
    was full of artifacts and lots of flicker with the
    moderate zoom factors. Gaussian blur was also quite
    bad while the 875x480 downsampled TIF was very
    peaceful. Of course the 875x480 was somewhat fuzzy
    with the extreme zoom factors.
    Photo To Movie's Higher Quality setting was very
    peaceful with practically no flicker on the TV.
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    difficult test image. But I have seen the same
    artifacts with real JPGs as well if there are hard
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    patterns etc).
    I've seen similar results here too, burning perhaps a hundred DVDs in the last few weeks. The goal was to compare DVD slideshows created by iMovie, Photo to Movie and FotoMagico. Matti's conclusions look familiar.
    My tests used photos that are the most difficult for iMovie to handle, lots of hard lines, buildings, wires, fences, roof lines, etc.
    When the goal is to burn a DVD, Photo to Movie consistently delivers good quality with a variety of source images. The quality is good across a range of image sizes and content. If you like working in Photo to Movie, you can be quite confident you'll get good results.
    But I like working in iMovie, so the goal of my tests was to find a way to make iMovie work better. The solution was to downsize the image before importing it to iMovie.
    As Matti suggested, iMovie delivers good results if the source image is downsized before importing to iMovie. Virtually all flicker is eliminated by downsizing to 640x480 (NTSC) or 768x578 (PAL). (Downsize less if you plan to use a 2x or greater Ken Burns zoom.)
    Downsizing is easily done with iPhoto's File > Export command. It takes just a few seconds to export new copies of photos at the new size.
    So is Photo to Movie "better" than iMovie for slideshows? Sometimes Yes, if you don't want to resize problem images. But often not, at least from my tests. iMovie can deliver fine results too. And to be fair to iMovie, it has other advantages.
    Note: Our tests may have little in common with the pictures you often shoot, the people pictures, the landscapes, the other "soft" images. They are WAY easier for iMovie to handle, and may not require downsizing. It depends on the photo's content.
    Karl

  • Cross Dissolve  / Ken Burns

    I want some text to fade up, and then fade away, as it's growing in size.
    I've applied a Ken Burns zoom to the text, and a cross dissolve to each end.
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    Confusingly though, the zoom then continues through the fade-out - so it's obviously possible to have both effects at the same time.
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    It seems as though Ken Burns does not begin until the transition is complete. Try doing the fade in using the opacity control in the video animation window (control- v). That seems to work ok with Ken Burns.

  • Jerky zooms in ken burns

    i made slide show in iphoto, used some custom ken burns, then when imported to idvd6, the zooms sometimes are jerky when previwed in idvd; also, what i see on the preview in slide show i photo isnt always what ends up happening........

    fixed by a different rendering method

  • Jerky zoom in ken burns

    i made slide show in iphoto, used some custom ken burns, then when imported to idvd6, the zooms sometimes are jerky when previwed in idvd; also, what i see on the preview in slide show i photo isnt always what ends up happening........

    fixed by a different rendering method

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