Ken burns and slidshows

hi
try to build a slidshow in imovie hd6
whenever i try to apply ken burns, after the rendering, the photo turns black
any suggestions?
thanks,
frank

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Hi all,
I'd like to zoom and pan on a photo with Ken Burns and then stop at the "end" -cropping and hold the image there on my project for a few seconds. Is this possible?

I found a new solution.
I select the ready "Ken Burnsed" photoclip and ctrl-click and choose copy, and then paste the exactly same kind of clip right behind the original. Then i go to the 'cropping, ken burns and rotation'- window, make shure that the start box is on the same crop as the ending of the original clip ( you can switch between start and end crops from the arrow thingy in the corner of the box) , and click crop. There I have the righty cropped stillframe right behind of the original.
I don't know if this is the right method, but it works thanks for everyone for helping, and if you find a better way, please post. I have this thread subscribed.
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Ken Burns and Crops

I intend to edit my 4:3 dv footage in 16:9 most likely at home on FCE or possibly at university on FCP.
Usually, up until this point anyway I've used imovie. I pretty much always go to File > Project Properties> and then set 16:9 (even though I use 4:3 footage). Then I just use the crop and ken burns tools to slide the video up and down at different points to cut any unwanted footage at the top and the bottom of the frames. In this instance I want to crop out unwanted furniture at the bottom of my shot during a wedding service and later to crop out high disco lights at the after party.
Today at university whilst having my first ever play on FCP I noticed the ken burns and crop tools were not as obvious as in imovie 09. Although I did mess with the cropping and key points a little I still have no idea. Most worryingly I couldn't figure out how to set the project up as a 16:9 (I told the bride and groom they would get it in widescreen). I did find the widescreen effect however but its not really what I'm looking for because I want the frame to be able to track up and down at different points along the timeline.
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A myriad of reasons really. Firstly imovie 09 isn't to great at importing dv footage. I've been told iMovie HD 6 is better but then again I have no idea if you can switch a project to 16:9 in it and use it in the same way as 09.
Secondly I needed the smooth cam effect in FCP to sort some shaky bits of footage out.
Thirdly, they have FCP at my university and nobody is ever on the macs there (all on pc's), so the technician gave me free reign on one, my friend also said he would sell me FCE dirt cheap for my home computer (although this development hasn't happened yet).
Is there no way to shift the footage around like you can in imovie with a 16:9 crop

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I have a three-display Mac Pro which I have just upgraded to Mavericks. My rightmost display is a Dell P2012H rotated 90º, and every time a photo-based screen saver activates, that display gets scrambled. While the screen saver is running it looks like one of those tile-shifting puzzles being randomized, except instead of a single image it's a combination of the desktop and whatever screensaver image was being displayed. When the screensaver deactivates, the display stays in whatever state it was last in while the screen saver was running, making that display completely useless. In order to reset it I have to switch resolutions and then switch back.
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Automatic Ken burns and framing in iPhoto and Screen saver

I am generating a slideshow from iPhoto. When I have framed the photos properly I am checking my slideshow as a screen saver. Automatic Ken Burns options and framing are ok. Now I try to generate a slideshow directly in iPhoto, and the framing is completely changed and the Ken Burns options are different.
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I do not have the feeling that the rendering engine of the screen saver option of the System Preferences of Mac OS X is different from the one included in iPhoto or in iMovie. But the difference between the first and the two others at least is the parameter setting is done automatically.
I have tried since at least two other slideshows, and I could get for fex photos the same settings thant for the system screensaver.
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I am a very new Mac users as well as a new imovie user. I put all of my images on imovie to make a slideshow. I added music to the slideshow from itunes as well. I thought I was doing pretty good When I played the slideshow using the Ken Burns slideshow feature, the whole image was not visible. The image slowly moved on the screen but the whole image was never visible. It generally cut off the image before it was finished showing all of it. I hope this makes sense. How do I get the whole image to appear?
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I've been searching the postings but haven't found anything that quite fits.
I was having problem with the Ken Burns effect. I updated iMovie hoping that would solve the rendering trouble. Solved that one. Now I have a different one.
When I imput a photo using Ken Burns effect, the photo renders and immediately after the photo disappears from the line. So I tried imputting without Ken Burns. THat worked OK. Tried then to update it using the Kenburns. That seemed to work. It did the red line thing and the picture stayed there. But when played, the photo was still. Any suggestions?
Seems like I keep running into trouble, So I have been looking at alternatives. Does anyone have a suggestion on that. I have downloaded the free trial of Photo to Movie and Fotomagico. They don't seem to offer many transitions.
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I have made photo dvd's and have never had a problem with the Ken Burns effect.
Here is the way I work it:
I connect my camera via USB to the Mac; a icon appears on the desk top; i drag the photos from the camera to a folder on my computer then drag the icon to the trash to disconnect the camera.
I open iMovie and drag all the photos into one of the frames. When iMovie has all my photos I save.
I then drag each photo into the time line as I want them to be viewed.
I then highlight all the photos and apply the ken burns effect.
A red line begins to run through all my photos at once. It takes some time for the computer to do the work. (More time for more photos).
After the effect has been rendered. I save and close iMovie.
I open iDVD choose a theme then drag my iMovie project into iDVD. (Optional: I add some photos to the theme as I wish and drag an audio file appropriate to the photos to be viewed.)
I play a small part of the movie to make sure the menues work and all is well.
I save my iDVD project and push burn DVD.
POOF done.

Take ken burns and burn him

Hi!
I'm running imovie 8.0.6. It disgusts me that I have to relearn each new version of anything apple upgrades.
When I import photos into imovie it immediately puts the ken burns effect on. How can I import so that no effects are added without my asking for them? Also how can I import so all the photos are the same length?
thanks for any help!

Hi Chad - you've actually posted in the wrong forum. This is iMovie HD 6. It's best if you post questions in the relevant forum - in this case, the iMovie '09 forum. But while I'm here, I'll endeavour to answer your questions.
When I import photos into imovie it immediately puts the ken burns effect on. How can I import so that no effects are added without my asking for them?
Go to iMovie's menu and select File>Project Properties, then the Timing tab. Under "Initial Photo Placement" choose "Fit in Frame". The other options are "Crop" and "Ken Burns".
Also how can I import so all the photos are the same length?
In the same Timing tab as above, you will see a slider labelled "Photo Duration". Drag the slider to your desired duration for all photos that you add to the project.
Note that these changes will apply to the current project but may not "stick" for future projects. Therefore, it's best to check these settings each time you create a new project, preferably before beginning to add content to the new project.
You can change settings for individual photos in your project using the Inspector - but you have probably already discovered how to do this - if not, please post back.
John

Ken Burns and portrait pictures

I'm doing my first slideshow. iPhoto 5.0.4 and 23" screen. Full screen is
all right, for landscape pictures, that is (even when they are cropped).
By default, portraits are scaled as to "fill the height", that means big black
columns at left & right.
Setting "Scale photos to fill screen" nicely eliminates these black columns but
the heads and feet of people are now cropped.
I've learned that one can set pan and zoom attributes for a single photo or group of photos manually.
If you set the initial zoom so that the picture fills the width, then adjusts the start/end points for pannng (to save heads or feet, whichever are more important :-)), then things work all right.
My only problem is that I'll have to do this for every new roll. I think that
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Perhaps I am missing something. Is it possible to ask for such a behaviour?
Is there a quirky setup option to this end hidden somewhere?
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Hi Miklos,
You are doing it the right way. Very good for you!
I take all my photos in landscape mode so I don't have to go through what you are doing.
There is no other option to make this default that I know of. Maybe someone else here has figured out a faster solution.
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If anyone has done this before and knows how to keep ken burns and lose the shimmer I would appreciate your help.

Add some blur to the image. I know it sounds crazy, but blurring the photo will reduce the flicker on a TV. DVDs are really low res. and by reducing the image detail will help prevent line flicker.

Photo Settings not showing up; cannot remove Ken Burns effect

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Earlier today, I selected the photo setting button and a little box showed up with the Ken Burns effect options in it, however now when I select photo settings, the only thing that shows up is the preview of the of photo zooming/panning. Please help... how do I get back to that little box so I can remove the Ken Burns effect from my photos! Thanking you!

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Wavy movement of Ken Burns

I know similar issues have been brought up with the Ken Burns affect being choppy but I haven't seen anyone point out that they're seeing it as 'wavy'.
What I see is that photos with contrasting lines in them (in this case, kitchen cabinets against walls) look like they're wavy when panning with the Ken Burns affect. Its almost nausiating.
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You problem is not the same as the link above described (i.e. the old iMovie bug which renders jaggy stills from _non-Ken Burnsed_ images).
You applied Ken Burns so those images should be immune to THAT problem.
I guess what you are seeing is suboptimal subpixel rendering with Ken Burns. Sometimes the images may by TOO sharp so they induce interlace flicker when viewed on a TV. This is caused by the fact that a thin and sharp 1-line vertical object is visible only half of the time and even a 2-line vertical object may seem to jump up and down on an interlaced TV (see interlace flicker):
http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/fields/fields.html
Some applications intentionally slightly blur images to reduce the flicker (Photo To Movie's higher quality setting, for example). Also in Toast Titanium 7 the output doesn't flicker.
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The idea is to cut down on vertical resolution (excess of which causes interlace flicker on an interlaced TV) without compromising horizontal resolution. Another method is to apply a small Gaussian blur to the image. Just using a smaller resolution (640x480) in the input images also prevents flicker but the images may appear slightly fuzzy instead (and you really should not zoom into such low resolution image with Ken Burns).
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If you don't create a slideshow, and simply use the Play button for albums, I think the settings stick. So once you save settings with what you like, they should stay for the albums. I think the slideshow button in the toolbar, however, has fixed settings and KB remains on.

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I have a problem with the Ken Burns Effect in FCP X. In the beginning and end of each clip I use the Ken Burns on has a ramp up and down, or slowly increases speed in the beginning of the clip and slows to a stop at the end of the clip. I want it to just pan and zoom without and slowing or ramping. I have experianced the same effect when using key framing. iMovie's Ken Burns effect doesn't have this same slowing or ramping. Am I missing some setting to turn this added effect off Ken burns and key framing in FCP X? Please Help!!!
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Although I'm not certain, I don't think the Ken Burns effect has the ability to adjust the ease in/ease out settings. I usually prefer to use those, however....here's the solution.
http://alex4d.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/smooth-move-fpx-effect/
Anybody using FCP X needs to get this. A free plugin called Smooth Move. It's like Ken Burns on steroids. The main points:
KB only works on the entire duration of a clip. SM gives you the options to hold at the beginning and/or end of the clip or photo and just move in between. And, I don't know the terms for this, but it does the scaling and positioning in a smooth professional way without the strange glitches if you scale and position at the same time using keyframes. And, best of all for you, it gives the option to make the moves constant or eased. In fact, you have separate ease/constant settings for position, scale, and rotation.
It's that good, and it's free - get it.

Kens Burns effects not saved in "original" saved slideshows in iphoto 11

i upgraded from iphoto 9 to iphoto 11. I have several saved slideshows. When I opened the saved slideshows in iphoto11 some of the Ken Burns effects were lost (some turned out to be Ken Burns effects on a landscape photos). I tried to add the Ken Burns effects to the landscape photo in the "original theme" and could not do so. The effect would operate until I closed iphoto11 and then would fail to operate when I reopened iphoto and ran the saved slideshow. This also occurred when I made a new saved slideshow. This issue only occurred in landscape photos and did not occur in portrait photos. The Ken Burns effects on a portait photo was updated when going from 9 to 11 and new Ken Burns effects could be added to a new and old saved slideshow.
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SixPack:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. As TD pointed out, making a QT movie file of a slideshow involves rendering which is then encoded once again in iDVD. IMO, the best image quality for a slideshow is obtained when you create the slideshow entirely within iDVD. Of course there's no KB effect.
If you create the show in iMovie you can get around the double encoding by closing iMovie once the slideshow is finished. Then open the iMovie project file/package (Option-click on the project file and select Show Package Contents option), find the iDVD folder and drag the .mov file in it into the open iDVD window. This will let iDVD do the rendering of the various transitions and special effects and provide a better final product.
You must remember that iDVD's final resolution is only 640 x 480.
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.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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