Ken Burns pan/zoom tutorial?

I need to pan and zoom around smoothly on some still images of old paintings in my Final Cut project (I have Final Cut Pro 5 and Motion 2). I'm fairly competent with Final Cut, but new to Motion. Does anyone know of any tutorials, either written or video, in a book or on the Web, that might explain to me how to do smooth pan/zooms in Motion, i.e. Ken Burns type stuff? (The Apple manual for Motion that came with the Studio suite puts me to sleep, and I can't seem to find the info I want in it anyway).
Thanks for any help.
Tom

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=rbC&rls=en&q=kenburns+apple+motiontutorial&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
-DH

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I want to start or end with the full pic in view - just as the FIT command does.
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Good to learn of your progress with Premiere Elements 12.
3. Is is possible to do a type of "Ken Burns" panning and zooming with Premier 12 and if so how do you do it?
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online video tutorial on use of Pan and Zoom Tool
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my blog post on the subject, including applying same pan and zoom effect of Pan and Zoom Tool to more than one image at a time
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2. Also when I have added all of my clips onto the timeline and have my "curent time indicator" at the "end" it does not stop and "go back" to the beginning/home unless I manually hit the "home" on my keyboard. I want to make sure that when I go to burn that the movie will instantly go back to the beginning of the project.
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After you have added all your clips to the Timeline, do the gray tabs of the Work Area Bar span that Timeline content from what you see as the beginning and end of the whole content? When you hit the play button of the monitor, does the Timeline content playback from beginning and end of what you can see as the beginning and end or does the Timeline Indicator continue beyond the last item that you put on the Timeline? If the latter, then you are some fragments further to the right of the end that you can see. Typically the present (with Timeline content expanded max) as very thin vertical black lines which will need to be deleted. In these cases, use the End key stop position to search for the leftover(s).
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This post is to document issues with 'Ken Burns' rendering in Final Cut Express 4 and some workarounds and possible bugs in software I found.
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https://discussions.apple.com/message/5207261#5207261
When I import images into final cut express and apply keyfram effects with panning and zooming a.ka. the 'Ken Burns Effect' I find that image quality is very poor. This occurs in most BUT NOT ALL images in viewer and canvas windows as well as rendered footage. The video issues are severe interlacing artifacts (horizontal blurry lines) as well as motion jitter along edges.
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-Adjusting Field Dominance in the clip properties to none
this was already set on my clips
-Adjust render settings.
I saw a 1001 rendering 'recipes' offered up to fix image pan/zoom issues. None worked
Things I discovered
Ken burns effect looked great when the image was in a transition, but bad when it was not. For example: Imagine a 5 second cross dissolve between regular video and ken burns motion image. When image becomes clearly visible in the latter 2.5 seconds of the transition it looks excellent while panning/zooming. When the transition finishes there is a sudden change to poor quality in the pan/zoom.
-The render bar on top of the timeline is dark-green for good-looking images, which according to the final cut manual, means 'no render necessary'
-There was nothing special about these render-not-necessary images that I could find in resolution, settings, etc.
-Good looking images were jpegs, gifs, and tiffs
I tried converting other images and reimporting, no luck
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Any zoom level other than 100% looks good.
-This seems like a bug to me.
Eventually I just used a screen recording application called screenflow to capture my video playing in canvas window at 99% in real time.
This worked.
Hopefully someone can explain why rendered images never look good and what format works to get the dark green line and avoid rendering all together and these problems.
I don't mind converting file formats beforehand as long as they work well

The render bar on top of the timeline is dark-green for good-looking images, which according to the final cut manual, means 'no render necessary'
This is misleading. It simply means rendering is not necessary for playback. It does NOT mean that the material does not need to be rendered.
100% zoom level is as close to how your video actually looks that a computer monitor can display.
You never said what format you're working in.
You always have to render still images. You're making video, and they're not video.

Importing photos & I dont want the ken burns effect

I want to import photos into imovie to make a slideshow like I used to in earlier versions of. However, when I import a photo now, it imports somewhat zoomed in and off center.
I do not use the Ken Burns effect, so it is not on.
Also I am doing a straight import from the folder. If I try this from iphoto the ken burns effect is turned off and I still have this problem.
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Although it looks like a bug, Randy, it's actually not. It's how Ken Burns works in all versions of iMovie.
The Ken Burns checkbox ONLY controls whether or not the image is imported with an animated zoom or pan. The OTHER Ken Burns settings — the duration, the zoom and the pan — are ALWAYS in effect. Those settings affect the current import. And future imports too, until you change them.
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Notice you can drag the preview image off center. That's probably how it got changed in the first place. Usually one uses the zoom and pan in combination to crop an image. To show just the left side of the image, for example.
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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.
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100 brownie points to Terrabay! LOL
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I see several transition effects in iDVD, but I don't see the Ken Burns Pan Motion effect as seen in iPhoto. This effect makes a slide show almost look like a video. Great stuff. Is there a way to select Ken Burns Motion effect if you created a slide show in iDVD?
I can create a slide show in iPhoto with the Ken Burn effect and share it with iDVD. When I do this, it creates a new project in iDVD. If I have several slide shows in iPhoto and send them to iDVD, they create their separate projects. Is there a way to combine separate projects in iDVD. I've looked around the Forum and can't seem to find an answer. Thanks for your help to a new beginner.
HJCW

You have to select each album and click on the PLAY button. This brings up a dialogue with all the settings. You don't actually have to play the slideshow, just click on "Save Settings".
I've since found out that you can shift-select multiple albums at and change their settings in one go. Wish I'd worked that one out before!
Like I said before: a central preferences setting for base slideshow settings would be nice!

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Is there a way to group the photos and apply a KBE across the grouping?
No. The KBE tool can currently only be applied to a single image.
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Karsten,
Those are beautiful effects. My complements! Will have to try doing more work with stills using pre-edits in Photoshop.

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

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.

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