Ken burns not applied

When using a photo from iphoto and wanting to apply a ken burns effect, the photo goes into the timeline but only as a still image and not with the ken burns effect..

go into the media tab with the photo highlighted and click show photo settings
check KB effect...

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IMovie 10.0.3 Ken burns not smooth

I am using iMovie 10.0.3 on my MacPro, I created a movie with 140 clips, each of them connected with transitions and all of them with ken burns effect and audio. After working fine for days, I noticed suddently that the zoom in and out of the Ken burns is not smooth but jerked. I would appreciate any help on this.
S.

Maybe if its too large to all be in RAM and has to load in sections from disk. But this won't affect the final shared movie.
You can join two movies together using Quicktime Player. I use QT Player 7 but QT Player 10 can do it too. Its very fast and doesn't affect quality. I find it advantageous to split big projects into subprojects each not longer than 15 minutes, then join them together this way after sharing. You don't have 'all your eggs in one basket' and its quicker when doing final corrections to only have to re-share the part of a movie needing updating.
Geoff.

Ken Burns/Photo import and editing very buggy

I have had a very difficult time inserting photos into my iMovie project.
First, it seems that sometimes when I click on a photo I've imported on to the timeline without the Ken Burns effect the Photo Settings window will not appear when the photo is selected. If I quit iMovie and restart the window will appear again. Clicking on the Show/Hide Photo Settings button appears to do nothing. Also, if I click on the Show Photo Settings button while the photo is highlighted in the timeline sometimes the preview window will switch to a different photo in a timeline and start looping an arbitrary Ken Burns move onto the new (unselected) photo.
Second, there appears to be no elegant way to move pictures around once they have the Ken Burns effect applied to them. If I need to adjust the length of the clip I get numerous error messages about clip lengths not being correct.
These problems never happen in Final Cut, and I wonder if it's just me or if iMovie is incredibly buggy and unmanageable.
PowerMac G5 2.5DP Mac OS X (10.4.4)

it seems that sometimes when I click on a
photo I've imported on to the timeline without the
Ken Burns effect the Photo Settings window will not
appear when the photo is selected.
Yes, the Photo Settings window seems a bit erratic. It's probably not, actually. Instead of being a standard button, the button should be a checkbox button where we tell iMovie we want it the Photo Settings window to open when photos are selected. Its behavior is consistent with a checkbox button, but since it's a standard button, it appears flakey and its behavior erratic.
Here's the confusing part: When you've been working on a photo with the Photo Settings window open, then click on a video clip -- a clip that's NOT a photo -- the Photo Settings window goes away, as it should. If you later click on an imported photo, or click on a photo in the Photos pane, the Photo Settings window re-appears all on its own.
If, however, the Photo Settings window was NOT open when you clicked on the video clip, the Photo Settings window does NOT re-open later when you click on an imported photo or a photo in the Photos pan.
That behavior appears erratic, for sometimes the Photo Settings window opens when you click on a photo and sometimes it doesn't. It all depends on what you did while editing the PREVIOUS photo/photo clip, but that's not obvious.
If the button were a checkbox, it would simply tell iMovie to open the Photo Settings window as we work on photos or not, just like any other preference. Then the window behavior would make sense.
To add to the confusion, the name of the standard button changes as it should, but offers to "Show Photo Settings" when a VIDEO clip is selected. Nothing happens when you press the button, of course, for a video clip has no photo settings. So once again, the button doesn't appear to function correctly. But it were a checkbox that toggled on/off, we wouldn't expect it to open the Photo Settings window while a video clip is selected.
At the very least, the button should be disabled when a video clip is selected, but it's not.
So the best I can tell, the Photo Settings window opens and closes as it should, but it appears erratic because the user interface is wrong.
Oh, there is one other bug. If the Themes Drop Zone window is open when you click on the "Show Photo Settings" button, nothing happens. The Photo Settings window fails to open.
And one more. The Photo Settings window "sticks" to the project window. If the project window is low on the screen and you place the Photo Settings window above the project window, then close the Photo Settings window and drag the project window up, the Photo Settings window is re-opened off screen. It opens but it doesn't appear to, for you can't see it.
There appears to be no elegant way to move
pictures around once they have the Ken Burns effect
applied to them.
The best I can tell, dragging imported photo works exactly like dragging video clips. I've always found dragging clips a bit clumsy with the timeline in Timeline viewer mode instead of Clip viewer, so maybe that's the problem for you. The trick is to drag the thumbnail above or below the timeline before dragging it left or right.
Except for that, you should be able to simply drag the thumbnail to where you want it in the timeline and iMovie HD will slide clips over to accept it. (Sometimes it's necessary to wiggle the mouse a bit so iMovie HD figures out you want it to scroll the timeline or slide stuff over.)
When dragging a long distance across the timeline, it's sometimes easier to first drag the clip to the Clips pane, scroll the timeline to the destination area, then drag the clip down into the timeline.
If I need to adjust the length of
the clip I get numerous error messages about clip
lengths not being correct.
Hmmm. More specifics please. How exactly are you adjusting the length of the clip? Exactly what error message?
Are you typing a very short time into the textbox of the duration slider of Photo Settings? Yes, that's got a bug that complains when you go less 1 second. The workaround is to drag the slider. (The textbox has been buggy in every version of iMovie. It's simpler to just not use it.)
Karl

Ken Burns Glitch

I'm not really used to iMovie but I thought it would be easier to use Ken Burns than do it all in final cut. So I put in all the pictures and applied the effect to it and a notice comes up that says I don't have enough disk space and to empty the trash. So I empty iMovie's trash and now when I click on a picture that's already in the timeline and click 'show photo settings' it's just black. So I saved the project as on a different hard-drive with more disk space and it still does the same thing. I even tried making a whole new imovie project and copying and pasting all the clips into the new project but it doesn't work. Did I just screw everything up by emptying the trash and I have to restart the project or is there someway I can fix it?

You couldn't have known, but there is a bug in iMovie 6 whereby if you empty the trash you no longer can edit photos that have the Ken Burns effect applied. The only cure is to reimport the original photo, not the old clip. Then reapply the Ken Burns effect. And don't empty the trash EVER until your project is finished.
However, you need to be sure that you have enough free disk space for iMovie to operate. 25GB is frequently recommended on this forum. Probably 15GB would suffice, but 25GB is better.
Also, it wouldn't hurt to do a couple of simple maintenance things. First, close iMovie and trash the file com.apple.iMovie.plist file located in User (your name)/Library/Preferences. iMovie will create a new .plist file upon relaunch. Before relaunching, do a permissions repair using the Utilities/Disk Utility app on your Mac. Open Disk Utilities and follow the screen. Make sure that your external hard drive is formatted for Apple. Should be Mac OS extended or Mac OS extended (journaled). If it is not formatted that way, you can reformat, but you will need to remove all files on the drive that you want to save because reformatting will erase all data on the drive.

Ken Burns in iMovie on the iPhone

Good day everyone,
Would anyone know if when iMovie on the iPhone if you can disable the Ken Burns effect? I would like my pics not to move but stay exactly where the previous one was.
Thanks for your help!!!

You can't disable it, however if the start and end positions are the same, then effectively no Ken Burns is applied. Hope that makes sense!

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

Imovie ken burns zoom on video problem

Hello, can you help?
Im running imovie 11 on an mba
on this one project, has got to a state where a ken burns effect applied to a single clip is being applied to all clips!
Select the clip I want, apply ken burns, and the same is suddenly applied to all clips again!
If I turn it off, its off on all clips
again I Select the clip I want, apply ken burns, and the same effect is suddenly applied to all clips again!
In Project Properties I have turned the default to Crop on all clips,... doesnt help.
thanks for any help

Go to "file" then "project properties" and change "widescreen" to "standard" and it will be normal again I had this same problem sorry you had to go through that

Black screen when trying to apply Ken Burns effect

I drag a clip to the timeline, click on media-show photo settings, then the box for ken burns effect shows up but the screen goes black and it says it doesn't recognize the file. I enlarged, dragged and it still doesn't work. It worked earlier in the day...? I defragmented and made more disk space. What could the problem be?!?!?

Ok, I've read what has been posted, but it doesn't work for me. My situation: Macbook Pro, 2.16 ghz, 100gig drive mostly filled up. So, I've attached a USB Western Digital 1 tb drive to do video work. I previously used a WD 500 gb drive. I don't remember, but this may be the first movie that I've done since upgrading to OS 10.
Anyway, using the WD drive, the first time I tried using KB effect was 2 wks ago and got the black picture after applying KB. So, I did without. Same thing happened again yesterday. I perused the subject here, did all those things, and the same thing happened again.
Then, I moved the iMovie file to my computer and tried it and it worked. I moved the file to the external drive and it still worked. BUT, it wouldn't let me apply KB using the file on the WD drive. Back to the computer and it worked again.
So, any one got any ideas as to why it will work on the computer but not on the external drive, at least in the application phase?
Thanks for your attention.
Mac

IMovie HD6 Ken Burns Effect Not working

Hi. I've been using iMovie HD6 with my old iMacG4. We used Ken Burns Effect a lot with no problems.
I just got a 1 year old G5 iMAC with Intel Dual Processor and it has the latest versions of Tiger and iMovie 06. Everything works but the Ken Burns Effect. When I use the Ken Burns effect, it shows up when I set it up but when I push the button to make iMovie render the effect, the clinic does not render. It looks like the computer is about to render the effect but nothing happens and I need to force quit iMovie to do anything else. On the set-up of the Ken Burns effect, the preview shows the Ken Burns effect working.
I had a previous version of iLife O6 so I tried deleting the iMovie from the application and reloading the iLife 06 but this did not help. Because I don't have iLife 08, I cannot download a version of iMovie O6 to give this a try.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help, Andy

Since you just got a one year old computer, I would do the following:
1. Close iMovie and trash the file com.apple.iMovie.plist located in User/Library/Preferences. iMovie will create a new .plist file on relaunch.
2. Before you relaunch iMovie, do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app on your Mac.
3. Make sure that you have sufficient free disk space for iMovie to operate efficiently -- 25GB is recommended.
4. Update iMovie and Quicktime to current versions, and do a permissions repair afterwards.
5. If you have any 3rd party plug-ins, or Quicktime plug-ins, move them to another folder to temporarily disable them.
With the Ken Burns effect, do not empty the trash until your project is finished. Emptying the trash will cause you to be unable to edit a photo to which the Ken Burns effect has been applied.
Hope the above helps.

I get a "shimmer" on some photos after applying & rendering Ken Burns

In a slideshow I'm attempting to make in iMovie, I'm getting a "shimmering" effect after applying the Ken Burns effect to photos I've imported from iPhoto. The shimmer appears most noticeable in shots of scenary, where there is a lot of detail like tree leaves or grass. (In addition, as many others also have noted and complained about, the resolution, and even the color, in iMovie is really a disappointment. This is especially distressing because the original digital photos I took are incredibly crisp and clear, with beautiful color, and the slideshows I made in iPhoto and played on my iMac are gorgeous!). The Ken Burns' "shimmer" & poor resolution in iMovie and burning slideshows onto a DVD seem hardly worth all the time & effort. This is a real shortcoming in the Apple software it seems to me. Apple needs to fix it in future updates to the Tiger operating system or in the forthcoming Leopard.

MagneticMike,
what you see is usually referred to as a 'Moire' pattern that is caused by high-contrast in your source material. This means that exactly the 'incredibly crisp and clear' advantage of your photo is ruining your clip. In photographs, moire problems are usually overcome by slightly softening (e.g gauss blurring) the offending areas before the final render pass. This you can apply to your source image as well, and then import it into iMovie.
Interestingly, a different approach is possible with moving media. Since moire patterns are artificial noise introduced into your clip, people have found that our 'noise filter (combine)' plug-in can get rid of this. Perhaps you can download the plug-in and try if it helps with your problem.
(please try this link: http://imovieplugins.com/plugs/noisefiltercombi.html )
Hope this helps
-ch
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Ken burn effect in key note

Hallo
one of my customers ask me if key note has the ken burn effect included.
he likes this effect and has many pictures to insert in his new presentation.
Thank you
Maurizio Celant

Not in plain sight, but you can assign an image an action called "scale" which would increase or decrease the size of an image, or "move" which would allow you to move the image in the slide. If the person is looking for it as a slide transition, then apply the "scale" or "move" action to the image and have the slide dissolve into the next automatically after the action.
It would take a little getting use to how to work with the builds, actions, and transitions (though not difficult), but the Ken Burns effect can be manipulated to the user's liking.

"Ken Burns" applies to entire movie rather than to individual clips?

I am using iMovie '11 on a Mac Air 10.7, and I tried to "Ken Burns" a clip in a simple 3-clip movie. But the effect seems to apply to each of the 3 clips in the same way. If I edit a different clip in the same movie with different KB setting, then those all apply to each clip in the movie, over-riding whatever KB or crop affect I might have used there originally. This does not seem right. If it is right, then it makes the KB feature nearly useless. What might I be doing wrong?

Thanks very much for your rapid response. I think one of the difficulties in using the help menus in FCP is that you almost need to know the name of the thing you're looking for before you can find it, but if you don't already know what it is that you're looking for, it makes it hard. All the best.

Ken Burns movie clips (not still photo)

How can I apply ken burns to movie clips. I know that the ken burns button only appears when we edit still photos, not movie clips. Is there any method to achieve an effect similar to ken burns? Or at least remotely similar?

iM's Bigger Brother FinalCutExpress allows such an effect by 'key framing' ..

Ken Burns Affect does not work....

Ok, these are the steps that I'm taking to work with my photos. I import them and wait untill they render, and once they are finished rendering I move them down to the timeline. I then press the tab for pictures and it gives me the button for ken burns affect, but when I adjust what I want done then I press the button to render it does it but it does not apply the affect. What should I do? Reinstall? Thanks.

atxguy,
Before you use the Ken Burns effect are you selecting the clip you wish it applied to?
Highlighted clips will turn blue.
Matt

FCPX crashes the entire system when applying Ken Burns

When applying Ken Burns to an image, when repositioning the start and/or end frame the entire system locks up, not just FCPX. The cursor can still be moved, but other than that the entire system is unresponsive and the only solution is turning off my iMac and rebooting. That is how the problem started, a few days later during the same process the entire screen turns black and rebooting is once again the only way out.
Is anyone else familiar with this problem?

There's a little icon that appears in the Project on top of each picture that has Ken Burns applied, click on that icon (it's a cropping square icon). that will bring up the Inspector and show you the red/green boxes that indicate the area where the zoom starts and ends for Ken Burns. If you drag the edges of both the red/green boxes individually to fit the entire picture, I think you will get the effect of not cropping. But it won't really be Ken Burns either because it won't zoom/pan across the image as it plays back.

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