Effect NeededL Still photo to 3D animation

Hi Everyone,
I've recently seen two amazing applications that produce an effect that I'm trying to incorporate into an FCE 3.5 sequence. One is called motion portrait, the other is Fage Gen Modeller. Both PC apps. In essence, what they do is to take a 2d still image of a face, and let the user convincingly manage facial expressions just by mapping a few points. This is exactly what I need for a sequence I'm working on. Does anyone have any leads for a similar Mac based app? Thanks! Sorry if this is a tiny bit afield from FCE.

You probably want a morph program.
I tried MorphX (see http://www.norrkross.com/software/morphx/download.php) a free program that creates movie files that can be imported into FCE. Simple to use.
Piero

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I have been reading other posts about sharing from iMovie to iDVD. Am I understanding correctly >that I the largest size I can go to is 'medium'? In my experiments, I have been choosing 'large' and >they look OK. (I chose 'large' because that was what was modelled in the tutorial.) Would I have >trouble when it comes to burning them?
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Thanks for the reply.
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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.
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-> 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.
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Using a replicator was a thought I had initially - but the matrix of photos will be animated in such a way where I would want more control of every single photo going forward in the project. It's sorta like that old iPod/iTunes commercial they released a while back where a tower of album art gets sucked into an iPod (remember that one?).
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Want to know if Premiere Elements has the capability to show movement on a still photo? Such as zoom

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