"Ken Burns" imovie 06 project opened in FCE 4

Opening an iMovie 06 project in FCE 4 works great, except I'm confused about still photos to which I had added the Ken Burns affect to in iMovie. In FCE they still move as expected when just viewing the timeline, but when I open up Motion tab for an image in the Viewer, there is no Scaling or Centering listed. I thought maybe FCE converts photos to movies to maintain the effect, but they are still just JPGs.
How are these images moving, if there is nothing changed in the Motion tab!?
I'm hoping to make some quick Ken Burns effect slideshow in iMovie and then do more editing in FCE...
Thanks!

I have no chance to test it now on my Mac, but it seems strange to me that FCE can convert Ken Burn effects from an iMovie project into FCE Motion keyframes. FCE more likely imports an already rendered motion clip from iMovie. Probably it also imports the original JPGs, but the clip you are viewing in the timeline is more likely a clip where the original Ken Burn Effect cannot be modified.
In any case you can do a simple test: create a test iMovie project with a single image, apply the KB effect to that image, import that project into a new test FCE project: it's then easy to check what is and what is not imported.
Piero

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Does the moire effect created w/ the ken burns still occur in imovie '11?
I want a CLEAR video of my family vacations to include our videos & photos. I have HD 1080p video & good quality photos. My imovies 08 always turn out w/ the moire effect & I'm tired of bad quality videos after all the effort. I never downgraded the photo sizes or gave them a gaussion effect. I gave up after spending hours on videos to have them turn out badly.
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You might want to look into a more professional product like Final Cut Express.
IMovie11 is aimed at the hobbyist and specialized in producing videos optimized for size like youtube,iphone and the likes. Even iDVD export produces videos with artefacts for me. I use iMovie only for facebook and youtube. Its easy for that, but only for that. ( to me at last ). FCE* for all advanced projects where quality output and/or cinematic effects matters.
*Note that the current Final Cut suite which is based around Quicktime 7 technology ( Intel Leo/Snow ) will be replaced by Apple ( as announced ) this month ( June 11 )with a whole new product, dubbed "final Cut X" to provide full Quicktime X/SnowLeo/Lion optimization.. you might want to wait a few days until you decide to spend a few hundred Dollars.
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KEN BURNS imovie clip timing PROBLEMS!!!

I'm having some trouble adjusting the timing for pictures that I have put the Ken Burns effect onto, in imovie. I have selected all the clips to be 4 seconds long. Then I have selected the Ken Burns clips to be 4 seconds long as well, but they either have to be RENDERED in order to change the time (and this, I've heard messes up the quality of the pic making it "jagged") OR it only allows the picture to be set at it's pre-given RANDOM lower than 4 second time.
Make sense? PLEASE HELP! I'm about sick of imovie with all the problems I've had.
Thanks!

Then I have selected the Ken Burns
clips to be 4 seconds long as well, but they either
have to be RENDERED in order to change the time (and
this, I've heard messes up the quality of the pic
making it "jagged")
You may have misunderstood something important, Smiley, so I want to correct it. Ken Burns does NOT add jaggies to images. It actually INOCULATES the image from getting jaggies later.
The jaggies are added when you press the Create iDVD Project button (in the iDVD tab). That's when iMovie offers to render any unrendered photos -- convert them to video clips. If you grant permission to render, the jaggies get added to those clips.
Ken Burns renders images beautifully. The rendering routine iMovie uses later adds the jaggies.
OR it only allows the picture to
be set at it's pre-given RANDOM lower than 4 second
time.
The user interface for configuring Ken Burns settings is confusing and sometimes buggy. Until you figure it out, it sometimes appears to have a mind of its own. For what it's worth, I've never seen KB apply random durations to a group of images, and it's not a complaint we see here. So my guess is you're doing something inconsistent with how the Ken Burns user interface likes to do things, or you've bumped up against a bug.
One bug is that the text boxes in Ken Burns are quite unreliable. It's best to use the sliders to set the duration and zooms instead of the text boxes. The duration slider is more reliable than your typing the duration in the text box at the end of the slider, for example. If you use the text box, remember to hit the tab key after entering the text. And, of course, be sure to use the sec:frame format, e.g. 4:00 or 4:22. If you type the numbers differently, iMovie will probably do something unexpected.
One of the interface anomalies occurs when the Ken Burns checkbox is on when you select a photo in the iPhoto list.Then Ken Burns does a preview dance in its little thumbnail image, with animation. As that animation runs, changing any Ken Burns settings will almost certainly fail. You will probably accidentally set a feature you didn't intend.
Here's why: As the animation progresses, Ken Burns switches from the Start position to the End position. If you click on a photo in the list, then reach up to set the Start position, you'll probably unintentionally set the End position. So always wait for the preview to finish before setting anything.
Another confusing (but useful) feature is that Ken Burns always applies the features of your last-clicked-on Ken Burns clip to the upcoming import. So if you pre-set your Ken Burns features, THEN click on a previously-imported Ken Burns clip, the Ken burns settings will change from YOUR settings to the settings for that clip. (That's immensely useful, for it lets us apply the settings of a clip we like to one or more photos we want to import, but it can be very confusing.) So if you have manually configured some settings for the next import, do NOT click on a clip before importing that image.
Another bug: if the Ken Burns checkbox was OFF when a photo was imported, clicking on that clip does NOT correctly re-display the settings for that clip. Ken Burns doesn't correctly show the pan or zoom. If you Update the clip with a new duration, the pan and zoom of the new clip won't be correctly applied.
I don't know if any of that helps you figure out what's going on there, but hopefully so. If not, describe EXACTLY the steps that cause the problem to occur so others can test it.
Karl

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Matthew, unfortunately if I export the movie to Documents and then import it into a new project, it loses the music.
There has to be some way to assemble small movies into one project so that they can be burned to one DVD.
I must be doing something wrong when I create a new iDVD project and then try to drag and drop movies into it. (They have already been through Share/Media Browser.) Perhaps I am not dragging them into the correct area.
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I have added an image without a background on top of a clip using the Picture in Picture tool - selecting the 'Fit' option instead of the 'Ken Burns' option suddenly gives it a black background. I have successfully done this before so don't know what I'm missing this time.
Any help would be much appreciated.

laurenmatkins wrote:
… an image without a background on top of a clip using the Picture in Picture tool - selecting the 'Fit' option instead of the 'Ken Burns' option suddenly gives it a black background. …
you're trying to accomplish the 'transparent.png' trick ...
as described e.g. here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21897581#21897581
prob is: when you just one time only apply fit or KB to that PiP, it is 'poisened'=the transparent areas are irreversible made to black.
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Can you recommend any ken burns type photo plug in for fce?

Hi,
I have a big slide show to produce which I would like to do with FCE since I will be incorporating video also. One thing I love about iphoto is the ken burns effect, and was wondering if there are any ken burns type plug ins for FCE? I know you can do this with keyframes, but was hoping that I could a find a plugin that would be easier and faster to use.
I have read older posts on this, but was wondering if there are any current plugins out there that people would recommend.
Thanks!

You could also try Piero's free Auto Pan Zoom plugin.
You simply drop it on your timeline and all your slides will have a Ken Burns effect added instantly.
You cannot control the effect very much, but as long as you are not particularly fussy it could be the answer to your problem.
http://web.mac.com/piero.fiorani/PieroFFCE_Effect/Auto_PanZoom.html

Shaky still images in burned iMovie/iDVD project

Hello all, I've stopped by the discussion forums in the past for quick fixes to problems when they come up, this is my first post though that doesn't seem to address anything I've found on here...
I am working on a project that takes scanned pictures from regular print photos into iMovie 6 and then burned into iDVD 6. I have done this similar style of work several times and never run into this problem. The project looks fine in both iMovie and iDVD preview, and burns fine to disc. As soon as it is popped into a DVD player, some of the still images flash and shake around, it appears to happen on the same images every time.
The original project used about 100 photos, around 12 minutes of movie time. It uses only still pictures and there are cross dissolve transitions between each one. I have tried dragging and dropping the iMovie project into iDVD instead of using 'share'. I also saved as a disk image and burned slowly (4x) not only on my SuperDrive but on an external LaCie drive. I've even started a brand new project file, imported the pictures again from iPhoto and everything... still no luck. I've done about 5 trials now with these different settings, no luck. I use Verbatim DVD-r disks as well...
I've even tried scanning a few images and replacing them, thinking the file might be corrupted, but this isn't fixing the problem. Is there some setting that I'm missing or any other suggestions you have?
I'm trying to save a trip down to see a genius, but if I can't get any help I'll have no choice but to make the 3 hour drive to the nearest apple store. Hopefully someone has some suggestions! Thanks!

Hi
A. I don't use the *Share/Export to iDVD* function in iMovie. iMovie rendering can harm
the photos in a movie.
I do: close iMovie, Open iDVD and import the movie project here (icon with a Star on it)
or just drop the icon into iDVD.
B. Some photos with thin lines most often starts to flicker when viewed on a TV.
I do: In a photo editing program eg PhotoShop or Elements: Apply *Gausian blurr*.
Just slightly. Resulting in non-flickering photos.
C. One can rather easily find out if this will occure by:
• Connect Your miniDV (tape) Camera via FireWire.
• Analog out of Camera to a TV-set
• Set in iMovie. Playback via Camera
Now You see on the TV what the final Quality will be like.
• Flicker (add Gausian Blurr to those photos)
• Color, brightness & contrast
• Over all playback rythm and sound
Yours Bengt W

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I have done quite alot of stuff on iMovie but we are getting a new mac with iLife 08
will there be any problems editing my old projects in the new system?
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Thanks

I have done quite alot of stuff on iMovie but we are getting a new mac with iLife 08 will there be any problems editing my old projects in the new system?
Yes and no. Projects can be imported but transitions may be changed and titles/other effects lost. Current timeline can be imported as is from the old iMovie project package manually if that segment is complete but the normal wisedom is to complete the current project in iMovie '06 before starting a new one in '08.
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Ken Burns on Pics in a big hurry

Greetings, I'm under a serious time crunch and don't have the time needed to put the ken burns effect on my pics in FCE HD. I tried putting them on in iMovie and importing into FCE, and that has worked very well. However, I can't put transitions between the pics as I can in iMovie. Can anyone offer assistance? Thanks, Scott

FCE transitions need Media Handles.
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Ken Burns, De-Interlacing, FCE, iMovie and Adobe Premiere

I've read countless articles, bought lynda training with Larry Jordan, pre-edited photos in Photoshop, done all kinds of experiments with filters and tried other movie editor packages. FCE with the Ken Burns effect is just very tricky and time consuming to make it look good.
I took a single photo that I cannot get to look good using the ken burns effect in FCE and tried it in iMovie '09 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. With iMovie, it simple to do this effect. In Premiere I used the same keyframe principles I learned in FCE.
I exported each of these to a Quicktime movie (self contained and I did not use Quicktime Converter) and then popped them into iDVD, burned a DVD and took it to the TV to compare. iMovie looked great. Premiere CS5 looked even better. FCE looks terrible. I tried every filter with various settings and nothing comes close to the other two.
I get that the photo doesn't have the greatest resolution, it's a jpg and has artifacts but the other two applications had no issue with it and produced great looking video. Is it me or is it FCE? BTW, using version 4.0.1.

Select your sequence (timeline).
Go to sequence settings (command-zero or choose Sequence > Settings...)
Find the Field Dominance menu, and set it to None.
You can check your video quality by setting the Canvas to 100%.
You should probably convert your images to .tiff or .png
instead of .jpg. Here's a thread that goes into some detail:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9816517

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?

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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
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Stopping iMovie HD from opening a project automatically

Hello,
Is there a way to stop iMovie HD from automatically opening the last project worked on? I work at a college and am in charge of an editing station where I don't want students accidently removing someone's project.
-Matt

There's probably a better way to do this -- an 'official' way that relies on user permissions and such. But a 'quick and dirty' way is to lock the iMovie preference file. (In User/Library/Preferences folder, named 'com.apple.iMovie.plist'.)
iMovie HD saves the name of the most-recently opened project in that file. If the file is locked, the name isn't saved.
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Before locking the prefs file, it's important you configure the preferences you want as iMovie's default settings. Start by discarding the current prefs file -- while iMovie is NOT running. Then launch iMovie, create a new project (which you'll discard later), then set the user prefs to what you want. (The playback quality is important). Set any Ken Burns settings you want as the default and import an image. Save the project.
Now close the project window. The "what do you want to do now?" window will open. When you quit from this window, iMovie will save NO project as the recent project in the prefs file. Quit iMovie from this window.
In the Finder, locate the prefs file and lock it. Now the prefs you set will be the default for each user. Launching iMovie will open to the "what do you want to do now?" window.
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