Instant Ken Burns For YOU! ..... Or The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Editor.

Let's not beat around the bush ....... I am lazy!
I have always admired the way, with a few simple clicks, you can transform a selection of your slides in iPhoto, into quite an impressive instant slideshow.
One big advantage is the auto-Ken Burns effect, though on occasions it can pan something important out of the frame!
Now for lazy people like me, there is the FCE equivalent ........ in the form of Piero's Ken Burns Filter which is called the "Auto Pan Zoom".
It can be used in auto-default mode if you are like me, but can also be customised to give the exact effect you want.
I have just done one of my infamous "One minute tests" and was quite impressed.
I imported a random selection of photos and dragged them into the timeline along with the transition.
I then selected them all and dropped the KB Filter onto them.
Finally I de-interlaced them and added a bit of music.
The whole experiment took less than 5 minutes.
I don't claim it to be a prize-winning film but I think it shows how well Piero's filter can work for a slothful person like me!
http://vimeo.com/3524283
Download Piero's Filter: http://web.mac.com/piero.fiorani/PieroFFCE_Effect/Auto_PanZoom.html

Very nice...
The little jump you may have noticed during the fade-out during the end was recently fixed in Piero's newer version (I believe this to be the case).
This is a life-saver for people like me who frequently make trip videos with hundreds of photos and don't want to spend the time keyframing every single one of them. Before I got FCE this year, I had been using iMovie HD ('06) to do the "Ken Burns" effect very nicely. However, this often took months to complete a project. I really want to use FCE for my next trip photo show, but am aware that individually keyframing each photo would probably take even more time than I could do it in iMovie.
I realize this was not the purpose of this thread, but here is a question about importing photos into FCE. In iMovie, I experienced pretty decent quality just directly importing the pictures from iPhoto. However, reading through recent threads has given me the impression that importing stills into FCE is considerably more work.
If I simply imported my stills from a folder on my desktop, would I experience similar quality to using them in iMovie HD? Or does the way FCE works make me have to go through more steps?
And finally (as if I already haven't asked enough questions), how did you import your photos Ian? The quality in your creation is good enough for my purposes, and I am hoping that there is an easy and quick way to do what I want.

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10.1 - transform or ken burns don't work the same

What happened here? I've done this hundreds of times. I import a still image from photoshop. I drag it to the timeline, and hit the crop button, then ken burns, and immediately the start and end green/red boxes, adjust, hit done, and that's it.
Now, when I drag the clip to the timeline, and hit, say Transform, nothing happens. The photoshop file I happen to be placing is about twice the size, so all I see is a giant portion of the still. Same with Ken burns. I hit crop, and then Ken Burns, and nothing happens. The giant middle of the image just sits there.
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How does the MB allotment work when burning to CD-r? I try to keep it under 700mb as I did with transferred music but it asks for more disks as it only allows around 80mb per disc?. Am I just figgering it wrong? The discs say 700 MB no decimal, What's the difference between a CD track and an Apple Mp3?
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I have some photos that are too tight and need to zoom out more. I am okay with having black areas.
Is there a way to select the crop square beyond the border of the images?

There is no way to do this within iMovie. You will need to use a photo editor such as photoshop to add the black space. You can do this with iPhoto, using an Automator action "Pad Photos".
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Similar To Ken Burns - But it looks like only the subject is being zoomed in and the background is staying where it is?

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It makes it look like a person, or obejct is moving (in towards the camera/screen) within a static image.
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Luis Sequeira1 wrote:
If I understand what you are saying, this involves a little preparation.
For greater control, I would use Motion for this, but is not really hard to do (or at least simulate) in FCP X.
You'd want to use software like Photoshop or similar (Photoshop Elements is more than adequate - or, if the foreground is clearly contrasted to the background, even the "Instant Alpha" feature from Preview might do it).
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add the background to your main storyline and add the foreground above it, as a connected clip. Now you can do anything to the foregound (like, for example, applying Ken Burns to it), leaving the background intact.
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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/
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV554Z/A
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Fix for Jaggies and Ripples in Ken Burns Photos?

I thought using the Ken Burns effect to render your photos was supposed to be a cure for the jaggies, but I still notice a lot of jaggies and ripples during photo panning and zooming in the finished DVD. Is there a fix for this? Am I overlooking something?
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oregonpete wrote:
BTW- As recommended, I don't let iMovieHD do the rendering of everything else. I drag the project to iDVD and let it do the job.
I keep seeing this suggested in thread after thread. However, I'm still a little confused by it. I'm assuming that this suggestion refers to not exporting out or sending to iDVD when FINISHED with iMovie Project.
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I have a five year old version of imovie that generally works fine. However, when I add a photo using the 'Ken Burns' effect then save the movie, the next time I open the file and click 'show photo settings' the picture appears black and I cannot change the zoom. Any suggestions?

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See here:
Install the latest compatible version of an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X - Apple Support
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Can I turn off the Ken Burns effect from all stills at once?

I am using iMovie 09. I am creating a slideshow. I want to turn off the Ken Burns effect from all stills. Is there a way to do this in one operation?
Mary Lou

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Now select the photo you just adjusted and EDIT/COPY (or Command-C).
Now click EDIT/SELECT ALL (or Command-A) to select all photos.
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