Ken Burns Effect - A four-letter word?

So I guess you have to uncheck the Ken Burns effect in two places everytime you do a slide show. One in the settings gear menu. Very annoying. Is there any way to setup a default slideshow setting that has no music, no dissolves or other fancy transitions, no Ken Burns and a set time frame other than the default 3 secs. I've got hundreds of albums of pictures and I'd like to be able to do a quick manual slideshow of any of them in a hurry. It seems like there are way too many steps involved just to turn everything off.

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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  • How do I remove Ken Burns effect from individual photos?

    The instructions say to " In the Photo Settings window, deselect the Ken Burns effect checkbox and then click apply". My interface shows the word "update" instead of "apply" which has worked when I change other settings such as the length of time a photo is displayed. However every time I deselect KB...it comes back! I have also tried to constantly save the project, trying to save the deselect process.
    Has anyone an idea? BTW the KB effect is very poor for most vertical pictures as it will cut off the top of the photo.
    powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9) iMovie 6.0.3 version

    • Yes, the Photo Settings window says Update instead
    of Apply because you are updating an existing clip,
    not importing a new one.
    However every time I deselect KB...it comes back!
    • Not sure exactly what you mean there. Do you mean
    that in spite of unchecking the Ken Burns checkbox
    the Updated clip doesn't change? It still has the Ken
    Burns effect?
    YES - see solution I found below.
    If so, it sounds like iMovie may be failing to save
    the updated clip to disk. That can occur if the
    project resides on an external disk that uses the
    wrong disk format. iMovie requires the Mac OS
    Extended disk format. To check yours, see this:
    http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=41
    76921#4176921
    I had our office software person check this out.
    BTW the KB effect is very poor for most vertical
    pictures as it will cut off the top of the photo.
    • The Ken Burns effect can't read our minds. It only
    does what we tell it to do. For photos that have a
    portrait orientation it's normal to adjust the
    zoom/pan so the rendered clip stays within the photo.
    Note that it's possible to drag the photo in the
    Preview window to adjust both the Start and End
    points. So for a tall photo you may want to zoom/pan
    up-or-down instead of side-to-side.
    Note too that the settings in the Photo Settings
    window always accept those settings of the last photo
    we imported, updated or clip clicked on. So once
    you've imported a tall photo with the Ken Burns
    settings you like, you can easily apply those
    settings for another photo. Just click on that
    previously-rendered tall clip in the Timeline before
    importing your next tall photo.
    Karl
    Karl,
    Thank your for your input and in the last couple of days I have been able to produce the iMovie. But I now have another question about burning it.
    Let me point out that I was able to deal with the Ken Burns issues by deleting the photos I wanted to change and replacing with new photos and using your tips + the help menu on "adding motion to your photos" to zooming right / left / vertically (which was very helpful).
    Now that I have my project I cannot burn it as I get the following:there is not enough space to encode the aspects and in the pull down: "iDVD needs 2.350 GB of disk space to encode the remaining assets, but only 1.231 GB are available" I tried to cut down the files by deleting 5 chapters thus reducing the menu to one page showing chapters. I also re-saved the project with a new name.
    BTW - I did burn it once but needed to fix it as the opening menu didn't have sound and I saw some other small photo details I wanted to fix. This version had 11 chapters on 2 menu pages with photos in the background. Essentially all I did was add a few more photos in motion and add the sound. That is why I thought maybe it was too much and removed the chapters saving one remaining page with music. I also do not have it on wide screen format as that uses more memory.
    Can you help me with this? I don't understand why I'm getting the same message no matter what I do.
    Many thanks,
    Rozy

  • Avoiding Ken Burns effect when I download pics in imovie

    How can I avoid Ken Burns effect when I download pics in imovie so I don't have to change them individually?

    Thank you.
    When I try to do some of my transitions like "push" for instance, it lets me choose a speed and direction, but the UPDATE and ADD keys aren't highlighted. In other words, I don't really have that transition as an option. Any reason why?ll

  • Mixing photos with Ken Burns effect with 'still' photos

    I am just beginning to experiment with iMovie '09. My medium is still photographs and my goal was to create a movie with these photographs, and send them to iDVD to test the quality of the final images.
    I have 3 questions.
    1. I started by using about 10 photos from iPhoto, then adding music and transitions. I used the same 10 slides, same music and transitions to make a second movie, but this time I used the Ken Burns effect on two of the photos. When I moved the movies to iDVD, the first one was fine, but in the second one, the 'jaggies' appeared in the iDVD version. Is it an 'all or none' proposition regarding the Ken Burns effect if I want to avoid images with jagged edges or is there a way to combine moving and still images?
    2. The first time I tried to send the movie to iDVD I chose Share>iDVD. A drop down window appeared and it looked as if a movie had been created but when I opened the media/movies pane in iDVD, a message appeared saying "the project can't be used because it has not been prepared for sharing yet." What was actually happening when I chose Share>iDVD?
    3. 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?

    Is it an 'all or none' proposition regarding the Ken Burns effect if I want to avoid images with jagged >edges or is there a way to combine moving and still images?
    You should be able to combine.
    Open iMovie Preferences and put a check mark next to "Display Time as HH:MM:SS:Frames". This lets you edit more accurately and if there is an extraneous Ken Burns Frame you can see it.
    he first time I tried to send the movie to iDVD I chose Share>iDVD. A drop down window appeared >and it looked as if a movie had been created but when I opened the media/movies pane in iDVD, a >message appeared saying "the project can't be used because it has not been prepared for sharing >yet." What was actually happening when I chose Share>iDVD?
    Try saving your movie to either iTunes or the Media Browser first. When you send straight to iDVD it is expected DV or AIC or h.264. With photos only, none of these exist.
    After sharing to the media browser or iTunes, if Share to iDVD still isn't working, you can open iDVD, find your movie in the Media Browser, and bring it into iDVD from there.
    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?
    Both will work. DVDs are 480i, so if you send in large, iDVD has to downscale. You may want to try it both ways to see which gives you better results.

  • Slideshow -- Ken Burns effect

    IPhoto slideshows not only has the ability to dissolve between photos, but includes the Ken Burns effect. While the ability to use transitions like dissolve in a slideshow is supported in Aperture, I have not found a way to float the photo to the left, right, down, up, etc. while being displayed. This effect really adds polish to a slide presentation, however, it is not supported in iDVD, DVD Studio Pro (at least version 2 which I have), and it appears it isn't supported in Aperture. Is it hidden somewhere in Aperture that I haven't found yet, and if not, why is iPhoto the only app that seems to have this feature? It seems weird that iPhoto would eclipse two professional-level apps (DVD Studio Pro and Aperture) with regards to a feature.
    If anyone knows for sure, let me know!
    Brad

    Paul,
    Thanks for you reply. The reason for my reply above is that the discussion pages ask to add some remark to mark the thread as answered, so I just added that "no known answer". This was discussed with others in another topic, and yes you are correct, the discussion was on the very pro vs. amateur point you brought up.
    Brad

  • Jumpy ken burns effect

    I have been very happy using the ken burns effect when exporting slide shows from iphoto to idvd. however, i am working on an iMovie project now (i have to use iMovie due to video clips) and I find the Ken Burns effect has a jumpy quality from one photo to the next. i never had this problem with iphoto slideshows, the transitions from one photo to the next were always smooth. it almost feels like the effect speeds up as it pans over the photo, then jumps to the next one and speeds up again. i am a novice at this and hope their is a simple solution. i have been working on this project for months now and would hate to start over. any suggestions?

    it almost feels like the effect speeds up as it pans over the photo, then jumps to the next one and speeds up again. i
    Yes, that's a known problem. Unfortunately, there is no ideal workaround.
    It helps to use slow zooms/pans. It also helps to add a transition between the clips, which covers the first second or so and helps eliminate the sense of acceleration. Another solution is to set the clip duration a second or two longer than you really need, then trim off the end.
    There are third-party products such as Still Life and Photo to Movie that let you create Ken Burns-style clips you import to iMovie. Some users prefer those to Ken Burns.
    Please tell Apple you don't like this "feature". Maybe it will be fixed. Unfortunately, while the iPhoto programmers got Ken Burns right the first time, iMovie programmers keep dropping new bugs into the Ken Burns Effect with each new version of iMovie. It's really quite astonishing.
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  • Not happy with slideshows / Ken Burns effects / lesser quality in iDVD

    I am a new iPhoto user, having created my first slideshow of old photos to play at my mother's 80th birthday party this week. The whole process of arranging photos, testing visual effects and adding music went swimmingly! BUT (!!!!) I am hugely disappointed now that I've rendered the show through iDVD.
    -- The Ken Burns effects keep changing! Once a slideshow was created and the Burns effects seemed perfect, I sent that show to iDVD. But viewing the project once burned to DVD, I see that the cropping, zooming, etc. are all different. Is there a way to "save" a show and maintain the effects?
    -- Moreover, the crystal clear image sharpness and clean edges seen when viewing a slideshow in iPhoto are "dumbed down" once the show is sent to and rendered in iDVD. Even at the "quality" setting, moving effects look raggedy-edged. This really makes me unhappy.
    Any thoughts or ideas to share on this? Thanks.....

    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.

  • Pan and Zoom (Ken Burns Effect)

    Does iDVD 06 support the Ken Burns Effect? When I import a Slide Show from iPhoto to iDVD it looses the transitions and the pan and zoom features. I can add the transitions back through iDVD, but I can't find anywhere to add the Ken Burns effect back to the slide show? Is it possible? I will be really disappointed if iDVD 06 does not support this feature.

    Welcome to iDVD Discussions.
    I don't use iPhoto, so I can't help you with that, but I can tell you that iDVD does NOT have the KB Effect.
    iDVD 6 Getting Started PDF download
    Apple's iMovie Learning Site
    Apple's iDVD Learning Site
    iLife ’06 Multimedia Tutorials
    General Learning Center
    Ken Stone: Authoring in iDVD 6
    My favorite, by far:
    iMovie HD & iDVD 6: The Missing Manual
    You can download Chapter four: Camcorder Meets Mac.
    iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual

  • Ken Burns effect locked?

    I have imported images from iphoto to idvd to make a movie.
    I have been re-arranging images within idvd to my satisfaction and added music.
    All images have the Ken Burns effect which I am trying to remove, but my efforts so far have proved unsuccessful.
    I would like to have KB on certain selected images, not on all.
    Apple support was unable to help saying that the file could be corrupted.
    When I start a new test project, all is well, ie: I have control of adding KB or removing it.
    I do not want to start the project again from scratch,so my question is...Can KB be locked?
    Any suggestions would be appreciated.
    Thanks in advance.
    imac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

    Welcome to the discussion!
    Can you clarify a couple things for us, Everton, for it's not exactly clear what you're trying to do, and in which application...
    I get the feeling that although you've posted in the iMovie forum, you're not creating an iMovie slideshow, right? You're creating a slideshow in either iDVD or iPhoto, I suspect.
    You said you imported photos to iDVD and have re-arranged them there. That can be done in iDVD. It's possible to import photos and create your slideshow there.
    But then you said you're trying to remove the Ken Burns Effect from select slides. Trouble is, I don't know of any way to add (or remove) the Ken Burns Effect in a slideshow created in iDVD, and that's where I get confused. The Ken Burns Effect feature isn't part of iDVD. (I may have missed it. If so, please point me in the right direction.)
    The slideshows we create in iPhoto, on the other hand, do let us add the Ken Burns Effect to ALL the slides randomly, or add it to individual slides, or a combination of both. (The Settings button of the iPhoto slideshow lets us include it to all the slides.)
    After we configure a iPhoto slideshow we can send it to iDVD, where it arrives as a movie. But we can't re-arrange the slides nor edit any features in iDVD — it's not that kind of slideshow. It's a movie.
    So, it may be that you're trying to do something in iDVD that just can't be done — edit the Ken Burns Effect configured in an iPhoto slideshow. It may be that your editing should be done in iPhoto BEFORE sending the iPhoto slideshow to iDVD.
    It's also possible you've created two different kinds of slideshows in your iDVD project, one created by dragging photos to iDVD, the other created by iPhoto. In that case, the iPhoto slideshow may include the Ken Burns Effect but the iDVD slideshow would not. To modify the Ken Burns Effect features, you have to edit the slideshow in iPhoto and re-import it to iDVD.
    When it comes to making slideshows, we have an abundance of riches. iLife perhaps offers us too many ways to make them, which can lead to some confusion.
    Karl

  • I Must Be Stupid (Ken Burns Effect)

    My problem is thus.
    Using the Ken Burns effect on a photo which lets say is a full frontal picture of someone standing it zooms in on the mid-section and head is gone. What I want to do is start the effect on the head and zoom out to a full body shot. I say I am stupid because I have read and re-read the help for this topic and I just don't get it having tried anything. Any help in accomplishing this step by step would be apreciated and a place in heaven will be awaiting you. LOL. Kevin

    Kevin:
    With the KB effect turned on for that photo, set the KB "lever" to start and zoom and adjust the photo to get what you want for the start. Then click the lever to end and reset the photo with the zoom and sliders. That should do it.
    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.

  • Ken Burns Effect Pollutes Everything

    If you're putting together a slideshow, do not turn on the KB Effect for anything. Ever. I hate to say this, for I love this feature. It has enhanced many of my slides. However, it's a sorcerer's apprentice.
    It causes nightmares once it's in your timeline. You can't update its durations, unless you delete the slide & start all over. I've found, oddly, that if a transition is connected, and you try to reduce the duration of the slide, after the transition is rendered, the slide, instead of having reduced duration, is actually increased by the amount of the reduction you wanted!
    Beware of using KBE for any photo in your iPhoto imported album. Once you invoke KBE on any photo, it pollutes every photo you click on, thereafter, whether you turn it off or not. Karl Petersen posted a message last month, praising this polluting feature of KBE:
    "The most important is that all of the Ken Burns settings, the KB checkbox, zoom, pan and duration are controlled by the LAST imported clip you made, or a previously-imported clip you clicked on. THAT's what sets the default setting for your next import(s). (A very nice feature, by the way, for it lets you apply the Ken Burns settings of one clip to the next photos you import. You don't have to reconfigure settings each time.)"
    First, it's boring to an audience to have repetitious effects. Second, I don't know what he means by "import." iM4, in moving a photo from the Pane to the Viewer (timeline), says it's importing it, but I already imported it from iPhoto4. Third, I'm not so lazy as to resent having to reconfigure individual photos, if it means I have control over what I want to reconfigure & what I don't want to reconfigure.
    Third, I wish Apple would realize users do have a brain: They don't need everything automated. There should be two buttons: KBE on for all, another KBE off for all. KBE off would allow the user to select which photos KBE is confined to. One thing I like about Microsoft is, it doesn't assume anything about the user. The user has choice & is always in control.
    I'm really at the point of not invoking KBE for anything, anymore. It's causing too much frustration, & it's not worth the time trying to figure it out, especially once the photo is in the timeline.
    BTW, what's the relationship between the Monitor, the Timeline, & the window in the upper right corner of the Photo Pane?

    The conclusions you've reached about the Ken Burns Effect are so strange it makes me wonder if you've understood how it works. Unlike the Ken Burns Effect in iPhoto — which adds the effect on-the-fly as a sequence of photos is played — the Ken Burns Effect in iMovie affects how the photo is imported and rendered. iMovie renders video — creates a movie clip — based on your Ken Burns settings.
    Remember, iMovie is all about creating video clips that play as part of a movie. iPhoto, on the other hand, has no movie. It simply displays a series of images. It never creates a movie until we export the slideshow to a QuickTime movie.
    Changing the Ken Burns settings of a photo in iPhoto simply changes how that image is played in the iPhoto slideshow. Changing the Ken Burns settings of an iMovie clip, on the other hand, changes how it is (immediately) rendered into a new video clip.
    You can't update its durations, unless you delete the slide & start all over
    Of course you can change a duration. Click on the rendered clip in the Timeline, change the duration, and Update the clip.
    Of course, if you've edited a previously-rendered clip — added a title or transition, for example — then it is no longer a KB clip. But if you remove the title or transition you can update the KB settings normally.
    First, it's boring to an audience to have repetitious effects.
    I never suggested you use the same KB effect on all your clips. I suggested that if you want to avoid having to reconfigure your Ken Burns settings before importing a photo, first click on a clip that already uses those KB settings. This saves time and considerable aggravation. I find this especially useful because the KB settings window is so clumsy (and buggy).
    Second, I don't know what he means by "import." iM
    Each time you add a photo from the iPhoto list to your iMovie project it is imported to the project. iMovie adds the photo to the project, then renders the video clip, if needed. (The imported photo is retained so you can Update the clip later, if you want.)
    Third, I'm not so lazy as to resent having to reconfigure individual photos, if it means I have control over what I want to reconfigure & what I don't want to reconfigure.
    Fine, iMovie lets you do that. There's nothing preventing you from configuring new Ken Burns settings for each photo. (My suggestion was to avoid having to do that unnecessarily.)
    Third, I wish Apple would realize users do have a brain:
    Apple DOES assume we have brains. And that we use them to learn how the program actually works, and why.
    There should be two buttons: KBE on for all, another KBE off for all. KBE off would allow the user to select which photos KBE is confined to.
    It's that point which makes me wonder if you've misunderstood something important. The Ken Burns settings we apply in iMovie do NOT control how the movie PLAYS in iMovie, at least not directly, like it does in iPhoto (and other slideshow software). The KB settings control how a clip is RENDERED when the photo is imported to iMovie. Once rendered, that clip is FIXED unless we re-render (Update) it. Changing its Ken Burns settings changes the clip ONLY if we re-render the clip.
    Another way to think about it is that the Ken Burns Effect affects how a photo is imported. Once imported, it does not affect how it plays.
    Once you invoke KBE on any photo, it pollutes every photo you click on, thereafter, whether you turn it off or not
    There's no pollution of anything. For the reasons I mentioned earlier, the settings do NOT change anything about existing photos or clips until you Apply those settings, which (usually) causes iMovie to re-render the clip.
    Try to re-think how Ken Burns works, where you assume iMovie is creating video, not just a series of images it plays in sequence. Those are two very different things.
    Karl

  • Ken Burns Effect Simple Question :)

    I'm doing a video slideshow in iMovie '09 and I'm using the Ken Burns effect to pan around the pictures. I'm narrating a childrens book, and as I get to the end of the Ken Burns effect on the photo (zoomed in a little), I'd like to keep the image there, still, not moving, for a few extra seconds. Is there any way to do this?
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    YOu can do this by setting the Ken Burns Effect like you want it. Then copy and paste that clip so that your copy is right behind the first clip with the KBE.
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  • Photo montage Ken Burns effect w/ variable intervals synced to music cues

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  • Ken burns effect & photo size

    when using the ken burns effect---I'm customizing the start & end settings for each photo/slide.....some of the photos/slides I'm not able to actually "zoom out" show that the entire photo fits into the screen......It seems that...if I have the "Image Size Slide" located in the bottom right corner of the screen....pulled/slide as far left (zooming out as far as it will let me)....that the entire photo should be displayed......I appreciate any insight & help..
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    Welcome to the Apple Discussions. When you set the end or start point where you want the full image to show be sure to move the slider at the bottom to the far left. I noticed it usually defaults to slightly less than full screen.

  • Is it possible to change the orientation with the Ken Burns effect?

    Friends,
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    Thanks!
    Steve

    Tom,
    You broke my heart, but I figured out a way around it using cropping and keyframes.
    Thanks!
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