Ken Burns Effect -- Pan and Zoom

It will zoom but it won't pan .. what am I not doing correctly?

I'm working in iMovie HD -- don't have a SuperDrive --

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  • Limited ken burns effect and exporting out the slide show

    im trying to create podcasts of photos ( perhaps 50 )
    with OPTIMAL ken burns effects panning and zooming
    with my own musical scores using garageband. Using transitions and Voice overs and eventually uploading to a web account with iweb.
    Is it better to create this all in imovie?
    Iphoto is too limited with its very limited KenBurns effect.
    I also dont see the individual time setting option for each image. where is that in iphoto. It seems that every photo has to be the same duration.
    some have recommended iphoto then garageband
    but i see too many limitations with iphoto.
    anyone have similar experiences?

    Yes you can do this with vertical photos.
    Click on the little icon at the top left of the photo thumbnail in your project. This will bring up the photo editing panel.
    If you want the vertical photo to show up full screen, click crop, and pick which portion of the vertical photo you want to show.
    If you want to see the entire vertical photo, click "Fit" and the entire photo will be shown, but there will be black space on either side.
    Now click on "Ken Burns" to add the motion effect.
    When finished click "Done".

  • Pan and Zoom and Resolution Settings

    Okay I am starting a new project and I want to use allot of the Ken Burns, or Pan and Zoom effect. From previous discussions I was advised to scale my photos 2000 x 1500. Given that at what "resolution" to you recommend for the project?

    AZ Aurora
    If your goal is DVD-VIDEO Standard 4:3 on DVD disc and you have all photos (4320 x 3240 4:3 and 3456 x 2304 3:2), then you do not want any project preset settings described for 16:9.
    There are a lot of ways to do this, but stay with NTSC DV Standard as your project preset under the conditions above.
    This is one way....
    The sizing of your photos can cause problems depending on and in spite of your computer resources....especially if you have about 500 photos. Suggested batch resizing is to 1000 x 750 4:3 for landscape oriented photos. Higher than that, whatever you can get away with without jeopardizing the stability of the project for import, edit, and export.
    Set the project preset manually for NTSC DV Standard
            How to is at the end of the following
            http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-accuracy-of-automatic-project.html
    Go to Edit Menu/Preferences/General and remove the check mark next to Default Scale to Frame Size
    Bring in your photos sized to 1000 x 750 4:3, 2000 x 750 4:3, or the original size 4320 x 3240 4:3 or 3456 x 2304 3:2) - whatever you can get away with. Recommended 1000 x 750 4:3. Remember, no matter how high the resolution of the import, it will be reduced to the sizing of the end product format.
    When you drag each to the Timeline, they will appear zoomed in. Ignore that and apply Tools Menu/Pan and Zoom
    When you click Done in the Pan and Zoom workspace and you are back in the Editor workspace, scale the Timeline's panned and zoomed image in the
             Edit area monitor as wanted.
    Please try this on a mini test run to test the merits of this approach. We can discuss alternatives if necessary.
    Thanks.
    ATR

  • Ken Burns effect

    Under Snow Leopard 10.6.8 I am using iMovie '11 version 9.0.4 (1634).
    Making for the first time a movie out of iPhoto pictures, with lots of effects (transitions, titles, etc.), I experience in the use of the Ken Burns effect that any zooming ('in' as well as 'out'), or panning, constantly generates a kind of 'moiré' artifact: stones, leaves, steps, rooftiles and in general anything that is rather detailed, start to twinkle and flicker. The duration of those scenes varies between 1.14 and 4.00. On extreme shortcuts, this effect is - as seems obvious - rather not seen.
    As the use of the Ken Burns effect in my iMovie project is essential, I love to know how to avoid that detoriation. In iMovie itself it is not too ennoying on my 27" iMac monitor. But on TV, with the DVD burned (iDVD version 7.1.2 - 1158), it is really desastrous to watch... 
    Is upgrading from iMovie to Final Cut a solution?
    Thanks for any help.

    The only other thing you can try is to look at your workflow from iMovie to iDVD. There are two possible paths:
    1. Share > Share to iDVD
    2. Share > Share to Media Browser
    For highest quality the second option is the best. It uses a completely different mechanism than option 1. Believe it or not Option 1 actually transcodes to MPEG 2 directly into the iDVD project. Whereas option 2 converts to H.264 then gets transcoded within iDVD itself.
    Which way did you get your video into iDVD originally? I don't know if changing the path into iDVD will have any effect on your moiré artifacts.

  • 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

  • Problem with burning Ken Burns effect on iDVD

    When I preview a slideshow on iDVD after setting the theme to Ken Burns, it looks great. When I burn the project onto a DVD however the Ken Burns effect disappears and I'm left with static photos. What's going on?

    Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Where are you getting the KB theme? iPhoto? Is this in an iPhoto slideshow or are you selecting an album and using the Play button at the bottom? If you're using an album all you're sending to iDVD are the stills without any effects added by iPhoto.
    OT

  • Mixing Ken Burns effected images w/ stills

    I'm creating a slideshow that mixes images with the Ken Burns effect on, and images with the effect turned off. I've noticed that when I place a non-Ken Burns'd image immediately after a Ken Burns'd image, the playback isn't accurate. The still image appears black or doesn't accuratly play back what's represented on the timeline.
    I've dug through a lot of threads here but haven't found my answer. And help or just links to other threads would be great!

    The workaround for this, for people running Snow Leopard, is to insert a smallest possible Cross Dissolve transition between the Ken Burns clip and the still. Actually, probably any transition will work.
    The problem seems to be related to Quicktime 7.6.6, and manifests with stills, not movie clips. However, Snow Leopard folks, unlike those running Leopard, have not successfully been able to revert to an earlier version of Quicktime--at least as far as I know. You will notice that the problem does not manifest between Ken Burns photos or video clips, but only when non-Ken Burns stills are involved. Ken Burns stills are really movie clips. Inserting a transition will also turn a still into a movie clip. Thus evolves the workaround.
    Hope this works for you.

  • Automatic Ken burns effect final cut pro x

    I would like to apply the Ken Burns effect automatically, and with random motion, to all stills on the time line in Final Cut Pro X.
    It is possible in iMovie, so I would expect that Final Cut Pro X would have it also as basic functionality, but I just can't seem to find out to do it.

    You can turn it on in the crop function, either under the transform popup in the viewer or in the inspector.

  • 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

  • How do you pan and/zoom an image--the "Ken Burns" effect?

    How do you pan and/zoom an image--the "Ken Burns" effect?

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  • Customizing pan and zoom (Ken Burns) slide by slide -- help

    Here's where I am:
    I've imported a bunch of photos into iMovie and they are happily sitting in the Photos Pane.
    Here's what I want to do:
    Photo-by-photo I want to customize the Ken Burns effect to change the zoom and panning behavior.
    Here's what I am doing:
    I select the first photo and change the zoom and pan behavior to my liking...then go to the next photo and do the same, and so on and so on...
    Here's what's happening:
    With each subsequent photo, the previous pan and zoom settings are all changed to be identical to the changes I most recently made (i.e. all my previous changes are "deleted" and now all the photos have the exact same settings).
    What am I doing wrong? Thanks a bunch!

    Sorry to make this such a messy thread! (I couldnt' find any way to edit my previous post, so I am creating a new one summarizing where I am and the problems I am experiencing). I'm about ready to throw my Mac through the
    window...heeeeeeelllpppppp meee.....sssoomebodyyyyy!
    So, trying to summarize my issues:
    I'm having a rash of problems using iMovie.
    Here is what I am trying to do:
    Using photos from iPhoto Albums, I wish to create a movie/slideshow with pan/zoom, transitions, and music ultimately for import into iDVD for burning on DVDs to be views on televisions and/or computers.
    Here's what I am doing:
    1. In the Photo Pan I have the photos I wish to use from an album.
    2. I select one photo at a time, adjusting the pan/zoom behavior and duration one at a time (I realize you dont have to do each separately, but I like to customize this behavior slide-by-slide).
    3. Click on Update after each, thereby landing it in the timeline.
    4. I then selected ALL in the timeline and chose a transition (cross fade) to be applied to all.
    5. Now I've gone back to change the pan/zoom and the length on selected slides.
    6. [This part's a little hard to describe since I think more than one thing is going on at once...] When I change the length of a slide, it recompiles the transitions on either side of it (which I understand) and when it's done, the slide durations of the slides on either side of it have been markedly shortened (like from 4 seconds down to less than 1 second). I'll then get an error message saying the transiton cant be applied to very short clips (which I understand)...
    7. So, I'll then go to one of the recently-shortened clips to lengthen it's duration...and then the process starts over again, with the clip before it getting really short.
    8. The same thing seems to happen if I delete the cross-fade transition and insert a different one...slide durations keeps changing radically.
    In addition to solving the problem above, here's a couple more questions I have:
    1. What part of the process do you set the length of the clips? (I was thining of 4 seconds a piece, but that wasn't long enough to accomodate the 1 second cross fade)
    2. What order should I apply the various settings? (pan/zoom, duration, transitions...)
    3. Later, assuming everything is okay with the timing and transitions and KB, if i want to change one transition between two photos, I tried deleting the cross-fade, then adding a new transtion. But in the process of the timing of the two photos changed preventing the new transition from fitting...). How do I go about this?
    Clearly, I'm missing something here. This is so unintuitave...driving me nuts.
    Thanks a ton for any help you can provide.

  • Permanantly disabling "ken burns" pan and zoom?

    I never want to see the Ken Burns "pan and zoom" effect in my slideshows. I find it annoying and dizzying!
    Every time i create a new slideshow, this effect is on by default. I have to go into the settings selection for each slideshow, and un-check it. There appears to be no setting to automatically disable this. I even found a "SlideShowAutoPanAndZoom" setting in the .plist file, set it to "NO", but that doesn't stop the behavior.
    Does anybody know if there's any way to do this?
    Thanks

    I have a similar problem with music. Why does it
    default to playing music and why can't you change the
    default? This is really annoying.
    I too disliked the auto-music, but managed to find a "brute force" way to kill that. It ain't pretty, but it works:
    - create a silent MP3 file.
    - name it "Minuet in G.mp3" (which is iPhoto's default music choice);
    - store it over top of the existing minuet which lives in /Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Resources/Music/

  • I have an older version of imovie.  After I change the photos using the Ken Burns effect and save them, the next time I open the file and click 'show photo settings' to change the zoom, the picture appears black and I can't change the zoom?

    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?

    Have you rendered both iOS 7 and iOS 8 (both of which will work on your iPhone 5) out of the question entirely without trying every possible configuration? The animations can be disabled entirely, if that's the problem. And if the whiter-brighter user interface is the problem, there's reverse-contrast modes that darken everything. You can expose accessibility controls to gain immediate access to these functions to toggle them on and off. I guess my point is you may have decided against upgrading the OS based on an early experience with iOS 7 when Apple has since made changes in later revisions to address some of the usability complaints.
    Now, Apple's instructions for downloading older versions of apps is to do so from the Purchased list, not from the app's product page.
    See here:
    Install the latest compatible version of an app on an earlier version of iOS or OS X - Apple Support
    Let us know how that works for you.

  • Ken Burns effects are unsmooth. They stop and start, also stutter as they zoom.  Can anyone advise?

    Ken Burns effects are unsmooth. They stop and start, also stutter as they zoom.  Can anyone advise?

    Are you noticing this while playing back a project you're working on in iMovie or are you notivinh it in finsihed projects (i.e. projects you output or Shared)?
    If the former, that could indicate something about your hardware configuration that's struggling to keep up with rendering your project on the fly while it's playing in iMovie.  Are you running other apps? Do you have limited hard drive space?
    What are the specs of your Mac?
    Matt

  • Using iMovie 9.0.4 cannot zoom in or out on ken burns effect? Only pan

    When I am in iMovie I am trying to apply a Ken Burns effect to a portrait style photo, I understand the ratio is different so It will not position the entire photo in the screen unless you choose fit. But when I choos fit I cannot apply a ken burns effect. Is there any way to apply the Ken Burns effect to a fit portrait photo?

    You can apply the Ken Burns effect by clicking on "Ken Burns" rather than Fit.
    If you would like the Ken Burns to be able to go beyond the boundaries of the photo so you can zoom more, choose "Allow Black".

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