Ken Burns? Other use of stills?

Can't see from any of the screen shots or on Apple iMovie sites any mention of Ken Burns effect. Is it still there? Does iMovie '08 still fully support all the ways to use stills in iMovie making?

Importing stills goes only via iPhoto.
Photo's and other stills imported via iPhoto, automatic get Ken Burns effects. You can set the effect in the clip. In the clip you see bottom left a clock to change the duration of the clip. On the top left corner an icon indicates that Ken Burns effects are effective. Click this icon and you can change the effect. Begin/ End / section and rotation. It is not a free rotation effect, but rather the orientation.
Works better than in iMovie 06!

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  • Can I turn off the Ken Burns effect from all stills at once?

    I am using iMovie 09.  I am creating a slideshow.  I want to turn off the Ken Burns effect from all stills.  Is there a way to do this in one operation?
    Mary Lou

    Yes. Select one still. Open the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns Tool on the middle Toolbar. Set it to FIT (for letterboxing) or to CROP (for it to fill the screen, but cut off the top and bottom). This will turn off Ken Burns.
    Now select the photo you just adjusted and EDIT/COPY (or Command-C).
    Now click EDIT/SELECT ALL (or Command-A) to select all photos.
    Finally, click EDIT/PASTE ADJUSTMENTS/CROP ADJUSTMENTS to apply to all photos.

  • 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.

  • Is there another way to remove kens burns other than right clicking on a clip?

    Is there another way to remove kens burns other than right clicking on a clip? It's only allowing me to "crop" the clip when I do it this way. Thanks

    Click the gear button and select crop.
    Click the Fit button in the viewer.

  • 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' ..

  • How come sometimes the Ken Burns effect allows you to edit the entire picture, and other times it automatically starts at a smaller section of the photo?

    How come, in imovie, when adding the Ken Burns effect to a still photo, sometimes the phoo appears as the full size, and other times, the green and red ken burns boxes appear only on a smaller portion of the picture? I want to be able to Ken Burns a bigger chunk of a picture, but often times it is as if there is a pre-set for just how much the Ken Burns will cover.

    Is it possible that the ones that have small boxes are in Portrait while the ones with large boxes are in Landscape?
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  • Problem with pixelly still images but GREAT transitions/ken burns....

    I'm creating a slide show to be projected on a 9' screen by a projector that has 1024X768 resolution. I resized all my jpegs to 1024 by 768 and dumped them into iMovie due to the fact that I want lots of different lengths and transitions/fades/Ken Burns FX for different still photos (as opposed to just creating a slideshow from iPhoto).
    My Problem is that after I burned in iDVD at "highest quality" and I project on the big screen, the non-FX photos look pixelled and the transitions/pans/zooms etc are fine! When editing on my cinema display everything looks fine too. The pixelization is just annoying and I'm wondering of I missed a step in the send to iDVD process, or if maybe the transitions are rendered and the non-FX still parts are not?
    Any ideas GREATLY appreciated!
    - SARAH

    projector that has 1024X768 resolution. I resized all my jpegs to 1024 by 768
    You didn't have to do the downscaling because NTSC DV is scaled to 720x480 in the end no matter what.
    non-FX photos look pixelled and the transitions/pans/zooms etc are fine!
    So obviously the cause was this ancient iMovie bug that haunts the poor users:
    Basically iMovie renders jaggy stills when sending them to tape or iDVD.
    On the other hand, Ken-Burnsed images, transitions/pans/zooms are immune to that bug because they are converted to video before that bug has a chance to destroy them.
    Check the details and workarounds here:
    http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/iMovieHD_6_bugs.html#jaggystills

  • I'm looking for a High Definition Ken Burns effect

    I put together an hour-long DVD every year of the best photos of my daughter. Every year I've used a program called *Still Life* to add the ubiquitous Ken Burns effect to about 25% of the stills. I've been very happy with the results.
    But, lo and behold, we've upgraded this year to an HD television, and suddenly everything changes.
    Now it is painfully apparent that *Still Life* can no longer do the job, as its output is noticeably non-HD.
    I see how I can do the same basic movement in FCE itself using keyframes, but this movement is static. The thing I liked about *Still Life* was that it started the movement slowly, built up speed, and then slowed the movement at the end. It was smooth. I can't make FCE perform as smoothly. I get visual whiplash when it starts and stops.
    I've found some other similar programs-- Photo-to-Movie, MovingPicture, etc.--but none of them output in the same high quality HD that FCE express does. I even tried *iMovie HD*, but it isn't flexible enough (you can't change the start or stop movement times, so that when I transition the clips in FCE, I lose the second before the Ken Burns effect kicks in, and so the overall effect is herky-jerky).
    Does anyone have any suggestions for a software solution that exports high quality HD Kens Burns movement for a still photo?
    Thanks for any help you can give.

    Hi(Bonjour)!
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  • Trying to add a pause after Ken Burns effect to hold the photo

    I am trying to set a pause to my still photos after using the Ken Burns effect.  So it starts zoomed in on an area of the photo and pulls out and then I want it to hold for a few seconds so you can see the full photo.   Any suggestions?  I can't find anything anywhere???

    1) copy the photo with the Ken Burns effect
    2) place the copy after the original photo
    3) edit the copy, reverse the order of the Ken Burns effect using the arrows next to the word "Start" so the end point is now the start point, change "Ken Burns" effect to "Crop", and change the duration of the copy
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    - place the copy before the original photo
    - edit the copy by just changing the "Ken Burns" effect to a "Crop"  (i.e., crop using the start point),and change the duration of the copy
    If you have a "pause, ken burns effect, pause" don't use a transition after the 1st pause and before the 2nd pause. 
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  • IMovie Crashing when importing photo with Ken Burns Effect

    iMovie is crashing all the time when I am trying to import a photo with Ken burns effect using media browser and hitting "apply". Is this a known problem ? If I dont apply Ken Buruns effect then it imports it fine.
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    Powerbook G4 12.1" 1.5Ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

    Welcome to the forum! And thanks for such an insightful post.
    I have two guesses here:
    o The Ken Burns code of iMovie has a problem with partitions
    o The Ken Burns code of iMovie has a problem with access rights
    I've never seen a Ken Burns problem with partitions (I've used multiple partitions for years with no problems). I suspect that's not the cause.
    But I think you've hit the nail on the head that iMovie may have a problem with permissions/access rights. I don't know exactly what the problem is — or whether it's caused by iMovie or OSX — but there is behavior that suggests something isn't right.
    I suspect the issue, whatever it is, causes a failure to save the rendered Ken Burns clip inside the project package. The red bar runs, but the rendered clip isn't saved to disk. My guess is OSX refuses to allow iMovie to save the file for OSX doesn't believe YOU have permission.
    One would think that using the Finder to set the permissions of the project package would solve the problem, but it doesn't seem to.
    There are two possible solutions:
    1. Set the partition to ignore permissions. In the Finder, click on the partition and Get Info. Turn ON the checkbox "Ignore permissions on this volume";
    2. Use Disk Utility to reformat (erase) the partition. Somehow that seems to fix the problem.
    Here's some history which may suggest another solution: In an earlier version of iMovie a similar problem occurred, where iMovie would refuse to open a project. It had somehow decided you didn't have permission to edit the project.
    The only solution was to use the Finder to create a new set of project folders — a folder and all the folders it normally contains — then Option-drag the FILES of the original project folder to the appropriate folders. (Option-dragging COPIED the files instead of moving them.) The new project folder would now open normally.
    If you are adept at working with packages, you might try creating your own package (which contains all the normal folders) then Option-drag the files of the problem project to your package.
    Once I saw an error -52 announcement, but it was not reproducible.
    Error -52 is a "Get file position error", which (may) suggest a disk directory error. That may be a disk issue unrelated to iMovie. You might want to consider using Disk Utility to Verify/Repair that partition.
    I have a separate partition for the movies and made a
    link from my home account to the directory with the
    movies on that partition. iMovie works correctly
    except for the Ken Burns photo rendering.
    I'm never sure whether creating such a link is a good idea or not, especially for the iLife apps. Some apps don't resolve the alias as they should, which creates other problems. A "Movies" alias sends iDVD a million miles beyond Jupiter, for example, where the iDVD project joins the space dust.
    For iMovie projects saved on partitions and external drives, I just save them inside a "iMovie 6 Projects" folder on that drive. (Every new version of iMovie gets a new folder.) For convenience, I may create aliases to help navigate there, but do nothing else. Everything just works.
    If you figure out something new, please say.
    Karl

  • Can you control the timing of the Ken Burns effect?

    I've been experimenting with the Ken Burns effect, using it on video clips.  By default, the KB effect starts at the beginning of the clip and finishes at the end. 
    I would like to the KB effect to start at a certain point in the clip and finish at a certain point in the clip, leaving the image zoomed-in (or zoomed-out) at whatever point I choose to stop the effect.  Is this possible?  If so, how?  I would think maybe I could do it with keyframes, but I can't figure out how.

    LOL--I just bought some more tutorials.  I will say that learning FCPX is vastly easier than trying to learn FCP6 was.  For me, there's no comparison.  Trying to learn FCP6 was horrible.  This is fun.  I know it doesn't have all the features many of the pros want, but it is fantastic for my needs.  It is much more intuitive, but I guess I still have to put more time in.
    I just tried your suggestion, and it works fine, thanks!  That's exactly what I was looking for.  I really didn't like trying to use Transform because I was having to expand the image beyond the frame size and it just seemed like a very crude way to do what I was trying to accomplish.

  • How do you turn off the Ken Burns effect?

    I have students who are using iMovie to create animations. We can't get iMovie to NOT apply the Ken Burns effect to the still images they are making and importing. How do we turn this "feature" off?

    Are you talking about iMovie for iOS?
    I will assume you are as this is the iOS forum.
    You cannot turn this off.
    iMovie iOS is not the app you should use to make animations.
    I suggest you have a look in the AppStore for a better app, there are a few that are better suited to make video from still frames.
    Better yet do it on a computer, you will have many more options.
    But again iMovie Mac is not the best app to do this.
    QuickTime Pro actually has better importing of image sequences the iMovie.

  • How Can You Disable Ease-In and Ease-Out Of Ken Burns

    It seems that along with everything else that has changed with iMovie version 10, when you add photos to the timeline it automatically places an ease-in and ease-out to the Ken Burns move.  For those of you who have been on a Mac for a while, this was how iMovie behaved in version 6 and earlier, and it feels rather dated.
    If you are putting together a video slide show with multiple photos back to back, having the zoom ease in and out for every image is incredibly obnoxious.  I can see situations when you are providing a narrative that it might be important, but often photos are just being animated to music.  Is there a way to disable the easing or am I just best keeping to iMovie 9.0.9?
    Thanks!

    Hi Douglas,
    Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
    It does look like this is the default behavior for imported pictures in iMovie 10, and can't be disabled from the iMovie preferences. The best workaround is to select all of the pictures in your timeline and turn off the Ken Burns effect using the Adjust menu.
    iMovie Help
    http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov26d3f6a6c
    Modify a crop, rotation, or Ken Burns effect
    In the timeline, select the photos you want to modify or restore to their original state.
    Click the Adjust button in the toolbar.
    The adjustments bar appears above the clip in the viewer.
    To show the cropping controls, click the Cropping button.
    In the cropping controls, change Style from Ken Burns to Fit to display the pictures in their original size. From there, you can crop them individually as needed.
    Best,
    Jeremy

  • Where are the Ken Burns controls?

    I've got iPhoto 4.0.3. The iPhoto Help menu tells me to go to View>Thumbnails, but my View menu doesn't have Thumbnails as an option. Nevertheless, I can get a screen full of thumbnails when I click on the "Organise" button at the bottom of the iPhoto pane. The help menu says to select the photo you want (no problem there) and then to select the Ken Burns Effect box ( a screenshot of which is shown), but this box is nowhere to be seen. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Where is this durn Ken Burns thing?
    Ken W.

    Ken,
    iPhoto 5 has features not available in iPhoto 4. If you want to use the Ken Burns effect, use iMovie to make a movie from photos in your iPhoto collection.
    I don't know how you got the wrong Help document (maybe a foul up when your machine was built?), and I'm not sure of any way to fix it other than by deleting the errant document and running the iPhoto 4 installer again. You'll need to delete the iPhoto 5 Help document and any iPhoto-related ".pkg" files in the root level "Library >Receipts" folder before you reinstall. Everything else can stay.

  • Ken Burns Effect - Variable vs. Constant Speed

    On a test slideshow I worked on in iPhoto, I noticed that the Ken Burns effect uses a "variable" motion. Meaning if I'm utilizing the zoom effect, it'll start out slow, then speed up, then slow down again for each photo. However, I just want a constant speed zoom for each photo.
    Is there away to have the Ken Burns effect zoom (and/or pan) with a constant speed?

    100 brownie points to Terrabay! LOL
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