Ken Burns - size

Hi,
I have a Ken Burns effect on part of the video. What I want to do is after the Ken Burns is over I want the rest of the video to be at that size (I am zooming it and then I want to hold the rest of the video at that zoom level). I can't figure out how to match the size so it does'n feel like a jump. Anyone know? Is there a way to figure this out instead of manually trying to match?

I think I would do this manually with key frames and the crop tool. First key frame the move/ Then, working in the timeline zoom until you can see the last frame of the clip you've key framed. Blade the clip to make a through edit to isolate that one frame. Copy the frame and paste attributes (select Crop) to the next clip.
I'll be interested in what others may suggest.
Good luck.
Russ

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Ken burns effect & photo size

when using the ken burns effect---I'm customizing the start & end settings for each photo/slide.....some of the photos/slides I'm not able to actually "zoom out" show that the entire photo fits into the screen......It seems that...if I have the "Image Size Slide" located in the bottom right corner of the screen....pulled/slide as far left (zooming out as far as it will let me)....that the entire photo should be displayed......I appreciate any insight & help..
thanks

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. When you set the end or start point where you want the full image to show be sure to move the slider at the bottom to the far left. I noticed it usually defaults to slightly less than full screen.

How can I use ken burns end transition frame to set cropping size for next segment?

I am trying to figure out how to trivially take a large frame view, in a clip, and use a Ken Burns transition to "zoom" into a new view, and then grab the ending "frame" location and size and set that as the clipping rectangle in the next segment. It seems like I should be able to just select the end fram view, type CMD-C to copy, and then select the next segment, choose "Clip", and type CMD-V to paste that "rectangle" as the clip. This doesn't work, so I am looking for another way. There's nothing in the popup menus or the main menus that I can find.
Is this possible?

I am afraid there is no easy way to this with Ken Burns. A better way may be to animate the Crop tool instead, using keyframes.

Ken burns cropping in iMovie 9.09 changed with mavericks update. Cant zoom in to a small area....it limits the size now. How do i get back to the old way?

Ken burns cropping in iMovie 9.09 changed with mavericks update. Cant zoom in to a small area....it limits the size now. How do i get back to the old way

These timezone definition changes are fairly common, when viewed world-wide.
For notifying Apple, contact the folks at the Apple Support Center or (if you have access) log a bug report. (The folks at Apple might or might not notice any postings made here.)
For the immediate case, updating the timezones yourself is straightforward; the sequence is basically the same on Linux, OS X, Unix and even OpenVMS. Ugly, but it works. (The US folks got to see this mess first-hand a few years ago, but there are other locations that see these sorts of timezone definition changes far more often.)
For those following along that aren't familiar with this sequence, this old posting should get you close when rebuilding your definitions, though the timezone database has moved to IANA.

Ken Burns: make final crop size same as crop coordinatesin next clip

I have split a clip at a certain point, say 2 seconds in.
I have a Ken Burns crop for the duration of the first two seconds so the final frame is cropped to the (red) end frame. I want this to flow seemlessly into the next frame, which has just had a normal static crop applied. I can see the crop coordinates for this, so I preseume I need my final frame of the ken Burns crop to match those coordinates so as not to get a sudden jump when it goes from the last frame of the Ken Burns crop to the first frame of the static crop.
Alternatively (popssibly better) would be not to have to spliut off the first two seconds, and make the ken burns effect last just for that duration and then stay static on the end crop size.
(I hope I'm making myself clear)
Can anyone help please?

Tom Wolsky wrote:
You can't slip the clips and make the Ken Burns effect seamless. Why are you splitting the clip? If you can avoid that it would be better.
OK, then as in the second part of my question, can I make the Ken Burns last for just the first two seconds. I can't find a way to set the duration, it seems to last the whole duration of the clip, that's why I split it because I wanted to pan/zoom with ken Burns for two seconds then stay with the final crop.

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

How to get Ken Burns effect to zoom out so the whole pic is visible

I want to start or end with the full pic in view - just as the FIT command does.
Then I want Ken Burns to Zoom/pan to make it interesting.
But I can't figure out how to re-size the frame beyond the 4:3 (or whatever is restricting it) ratio.
Tried dragging the frame edges with CTRL, ALT, SHIFT, and COMMAND. Nothing seems to release the constraint.
Thanks in advance.

I want to start or end with the full pic in view - just as the FIT command does.
If by "Fit" you mean the image exactly matches the display area, then you would have to "pre-crop" your scan to one of the available aspect ratios either before or after making your scan. If by "Fit" you mean "letterbox" or "pillar" views, then as Appleman said, you would have to either use the mentioned automator action or almost any graphic application. I prefer the manual approach so I can add a "text" area, frame, texture the background and/or image, and/or create other special effects.
But, how do I zoom the view out past the edges of the photo? If I press the FIT button in KB effect, it does it. But I loose the ability to zoom/pan... Unless there is some trick to getting KB effect to start or end with a FITted picture?
There isn't. iMovie '08 automatically scales the content to make the smallest dimension "fit within" the display area and, therefore, does not allow the "over-zoom" effect of "fitting" the larger dimension within the display area. You can however do this in iMovie HD. So if you want the "built-in" capability, this is a case where you should be using the the older application -- otherwise you will have to letterbox/pillar the content to get iMovie '08 to "Fit" your image as you wish.

Ken Burns Effects Don't Work in iMovie HD (I've Tried Everything)

Version:
OS X 10.4.10
iMovie 6
*Hardware 1:*
PowerMac G4 Dual 500 Mhz, 1GB RAM, Internal 40GB HDD and Internal 320 GB HDD
*Hardware 2:*
PowerBook G4 500 Mhz, 512MB RAM, Internal 20 GB HDD
Problem:
This problem occurs on both of my G4 Macs. In iMovie HD, I imported a JPEG from iPhoto with Ken Burns Effects on. The still photo appeared properly in the Clip Viewer initially, but appeared as a black screen in the iMovie Monitor. Once the imported photo with the Ken Burns Effects completed rendering, the clip in the Clip Viewer turned white and appeared as a white screen in the iMovie Monitor. I have tried almost everything I read about in these forums in search of a resolution.
*Resolutions that Failed:*
1. The photo is definitely a .jpg
2. Tried importing the actual .jpg file as well as importing from iPhoto.
3. QuickTime and all other Software updates have been applied and are running on the most current release.
4. Repaired disk permissions.
5. Created, saved and manipulated the iMovie file in the standard Movie Folder on my main internal hard drive. (i.e. – I'm not saving to an external HDD)
6. Created, saved and manipulated the iMovie file in the standard Movie Folder on my secondary internal hard drive. (i.e. – I'm not saving to an external HDD)
7. Deleted the 'mac.imovie.plist' file and created a new one.
8. Attempted to do apply the effects logged on as a different user.
9. Saved file, restarted machine and reopened numerous times but the problem persists.
10. Tried a lower resolution photo and the problem persists.
11. Attempted to import all the photos I planned to use, added transitions to all of the clips and rendered completely. Saved the file, restarted the machine and reopened the file with no change to the blank clips.
12. The iMovie trash emptying issue did nothing to help.
*Additional Notes:*
1. The problem is confined to the Ken Burns Effects in iMovie. I am able to work with true video clips without incident.
2. Ken Burns Effects operate properly in iPhoto 6 using the slideshow functionality.
3. I would use iPhoto, but it seems like it would be easier to line up specific sections of an audio track with certain Ken Burns Effects in iMovie. (i.e. – a crescendo at the 16 second mark of the audio track coincides with the end of a 'zoom' on a photo, transition from second 16-17 second mark, new photo at the 17 second mark and pan left to right from 17 second mark to the 25 second mark.) Point is that it lines up precisely with the markers on the audio track, which seems far easier to do in iMovie than iPhoto.
4. Please help me, I'm going nuts troubleshooting this bug! I can't find any resolution that works.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Hmmm. You seem to have tried, without success, most if not all of the methods of resolving a Ken Burns black screen issue.
Some thoughts that have occurred to me:
1. Perhaps your G4 500mhz Mac is not fast enough. I think that the minimum spec for iLife '06 is 733mhz. Might have nothing to do with this problem, but I just mention it.
2. Are the sizes of your images too large, as can happen with some of these new high def cameras? iMovie has trouble working with very large images.
3. Do you have any 3rd pary plug-ins, particularly in Quick Time, that could be causing a conflict?
4. Do you have enough disk space for the project to operate?
5. Have you done a recent Quick Time update? Some users have reported a problem with that.
6. From your post, it appears that you have continuously worked within the same iMovie file that exhibits the Ken Burns problem. If this is true, try creating a new iMovie project and experimenting with a few clips to see if the problem persists in the new project.
Ken Burns issues can be very frustrating. I think that you will need to keep trying things until something works. Wish I could be more help, but perhaps some of the tech experts on this forum will have some workable suggestions.
There is an application called Photo to Movie that reputedly has a far better Ken Burns type of effect. If you can't resolve your problem, you might try downloading that app. I believe that it offers a demo download.
Good luck.

Mixing photos with Ken Burns effect with 'still' photos

I am just beginning to experiment with iMovie '09. My medium is still photographs and my goal was to create a movie with these photographs, and send them to iDVD to test the quality of the final images.
I have 3 questions.
1. I started by using about 10 photos from iPhoto, then adding music and transitions. I used the same 10 slides, same music and transitions to make a second movie, but this time I used the Ken Burns effect on two of the photos. When I moved the movies to iDVD, the first one was fine, but in the second one, the 'jaggies' appeared in the iDVD version. Is it an 'all or none' proposition regarding the Ken Burns effect if I want to avoid images with jagged edges or is there a way to combine moving and still images?
2. The first time I tried to send the movie to iDVD I chose Share>iDVD. A drop down window appeared and it looked as if a movie had been created but when I opened the media/movies pane in iDVD, a message appeared saying "the project can't be used because it has not been prepared for sharing yet." What was actually happening when I chose Share>iDVD?
3. I have been reading other posts about sharing from iMovie to iDVD. Am I understanding correctly that I the largest size I can go to is 'medium'? In my experiments, I have been choosing 'large' and they look OK. (I chose 'large' because that was what was modelled in the tutorial.) Would I have trouble when it comes to burning them?

Is it an 'all or none' proposition regarding the Ken Burns effect if I want to avoid images with jagged >edges or is there a way to combine moving and still images?
You should be able to combine.
Open iMovie Preferences and put a check mark next to "Display Time as HH:MM:SS:Frames". This lets you edit more accurately and if there is an extraneous Ken Burns Frame you can see it.
he first time I tried to send the movie to iDVD I chose Share>iDVD. A drop down window appeared >and it looked as if a movie had been created but when I opened the media/movies pane in iDVD, a >message appeared saying "the project can't be used because it has not been prepared for sharing >yet." What was actually happening when I chose Share>iDVD?
Try saving your movie to either iTunes or the Media Browser first. When you send straight to iDVD it is expected DV or AIC or h.264. With photos only, none of these exist.
After sharing to the media browser or iTunes, if Share to iDVD still isn't working, you can open iDVD, find your movie in the Media Browser, and bring it into iDVD from there.
I have been reading other posts about sharing from iMovie to iDVD. Am I understanding correctly >that I the largest size I can go to is 'medium'? In my experiments, I have been choosing 'large' and >they look OK. (I chose 'large' because that was what was modelled in the tutorial.) Would I have >trouble when it comes to burning them?
Both will work. DVDs are 480i, so if you send in large, iDVD has to downscale. You may want to try it both ways to see which gives you better results.

Problems with Ken Burns effect

Having a very frustrating time trying to get a decent slideshow. Like the KB effect but when I play it back the images jerk and jump. Smoothness totally
gone. Strange thing is sometimes it is worse than others. Have tried closing all
other unnecessary programs to save RAM , etc...does not help. Sometimes it
looks ok played in iphoto but when I send to idvd the jerking is back. HELP.
When going through process have about 250MB free and 10 GB on disk.
Also when I export a slideshow (size-large 720X480)to Quicktime image
quality degrades considerably. All I want is a decent dvd copy of my honeymoon
pictures but can't seem to accomplish this. Am very disappointed at all the
grief involved in this...any help would be greatly appreciated.

Greetings Old Toad.
It seems that a fair number of users have run into this same problem over recent months: namely, producing a slideshow with audio from iPhoto with the Ken Burns effect creates a "jerky" movie as a result. The advice I have seen is to either clean up your hard drive or get more memory. I consistently run into this problem even though I have a 1Ghz G4 iMac with 768MB main memory. I have tried this on my root drive with about 7GB available and on a firewire drive I have with ~30GB available space. I have also tried using Cache Out X to clean up caches and other various files, and still iPhoto produces jerky results.
The one workaround that has worked was to turn off audio. That seems to fix the problem, but I do want audio in these slideshows to put onto DVD. Others have suggested using iMovie to add the audio track, but reading in the output of iPhoto into iMovie seriously degrades the quality of the video -- not to mention that it is a very slow and tedious process to do this.
I would like to point out that this was not always the case. Unfortunately I cannot pinpoint the exact time when this started happening, but I could swear that I had been able to create slideshows in this manner before one of the many iPhoto upgrades I automatically received over the last year. I now have version 5.0.4.
Have you heard of anyone successfully fixing or working around this problem? I love my Mac...and this is one of the fundamental reasons I switched from Windows a few years ago was for the great photo tools. But now, without the ability to make DVDs the way I want, I am considering switching back .
1 Ghz G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.3) 768 MB DDR

Ken Burns Distortion of Photos

I know this has gone around before but I have not found the answer.
When using the KB effect it really distorts my photos when it is panning in or out. Using imovie and idvd to make the dvd.
Anybody have a fix for this besides not using KB?
Thanks for any help.
Ksmac
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ppi stands for pixels per inch.
Really??? Gosh, imagine that
I can usually tell when someone comes onto the forum with a graphic arts design background - they always want to talk in inches and ppi or dpi...... (Is that your background by any chance?)
Those of us who have been working with digital cameras for years know that what really counts is the actual pixel size.
I have not been unable to see any difference when the ppi ratio is changed as long as it is high enough to fill the photo area in iMovie (unless you are in HD mode).
That's because, as I said, the iApps only care about the pixel count - a 720x540 pixel image is just that. The document I referenced earlier give the suggested pixel sizes.
If you are scanning images on a scanner, you willl need to set the scanning ppi high enough based on the image physical size to give you the necessary pixels. If you are using digital images from a digital camera, forget about ppi/dpi in iMovie and iDVD.
But, back to the issue of the handling of photos in iDVD.
Have you experienced the problem of the jump to fuzzy when not using the kens burn on stills? I find it also in the slideshows made directly in iDVD
People report a variety of such issues - some see problems like that associated with using some of the transitions in IDVD.
Most people recommend that after creating a movie in iMovie, when sharing to iDVD and are asked if you want to render the project in iMovie before going to iDVD (or words something like that) you say NO.

FLICKERING PLAYBACK IN QUICKTIME OR iDVD w/ Ken Burns toggled "ON"

FLICKERING in SLIDESHOW PLAYBACK IN QUICKTIME OR iDVD w/ Ken Burns toggled "ON"
Posted INCORRECTLY EARLIER IN iPhoto 6 Forum: Apr 17, 2009 12:27 PM
Hello everyone, and especially QuickTimeKirk if I can get his attention please--->
After pressing "Play" in iPhoto and with Ken Burns "Auto" toggled ON the PLAYBACK VIEWING photos in iPhoto is OKAY.
After clicking on "Slideshow" and choosing same options, ie., with Auto Ken Burns "ON", VIEWING of Slideshow in iPhoto is OKAY.
Now happy with slideshow, I click on Export (goes into processing with QuickTime, or some elements of it I presume),
NOW SUDDENLY the VIEWING IS JUMPY, SOMETIMES LOCKS UP--totally unacceptable.
Yet if "Auto Ken Burns" is toggled OFF in iPhoto slideshow settings, leaving a flat & still picture and then Exporting File (goes into processing QuickTime) then PLAYBACK VIEW in QuickTime and iDVD IS OKAY.
So, how do I get to use Auto Ken Burns Effect AND without JUMPY/FLICKER/LOCKUPS in my slideshows this year? (A year or more ago everything worked out just fine using the same methods as today).
I sure would appreciate your help so I can send out some iDVD's with my Slideshows with the K-B effect "On."
Please help if you can,
THanks,
Max

Mr. "K"
Thanks very much for your rapid reply...this thing has had me in knots for days.
I opened MI and watched it as I played
Slideshow-A with Ken Burns ON
versus
Slideshow-B with Ken Burns turned OFF.
S# A was a several hundred MB in size (wow, how'd that happen?) while S# B was less than 100MB.
S# A jumps, stutters, etc. S# B does not.
The FPS of 30 and Playing FPS of 30 can be seen in a third (Slideshow#C) video that has KB toggled on and that one doesn't seem to stutter nearly so much. It's size is 70MB.
I checked my Codec Pkg using Get Info and found it is Ver. 1.1
My G4 is rated at 800MHz
and has plenty of RAM (if that's where this stuff is cached for playback).
Not sufficient? Please let me know how and if I can rectify that?
Watching with MI engaged is one thing, but What can I do about this disappointing outcome in iDVD or QuickTime playback?
Earlier (2yrs ago) I could create a Slideshow, toggle on Ken Burns, watch a video with no probs.
If you'd be so kind, please offer your best strategies.
THANKS,
Max

Ken Burns Effect Simple Question :)

I'm doing a video slideshow in iMovie '09 and I'm using the Ken Burns effect to pan around the pictures. I'm narrating a childrens book, and as I get to the end of the Ken Burns effect on the photo (zoomed in a little), I'd like to keep the image there, still, not moving, for a few extra seconds. Is there any way to do this?
Thank you very much for your help!
Jordan

YOu can do this by setting the Ken Burns Effect like you want it. Then copy and paste that clip so that your copy is right behind the first clip with the KBE.
Then open the Rotate, Crop, Ken Burns tool. Drag the beginning rectangle so it is the exact size of the ending rectangle. You can let that stay that size for a few seconds. Then repeat the process and zoom out if you want.

Ken Burns reduces photo resolution in slideshows?

Hey gang-
I'm running iPhoto 8 v7.0.1 on my new 24" 2.8GHz iMac. I've noticed something I hadn't detected in earlier versions of iPhoto- that is, when I'm playing a slideshow, photo quality if "Automatic Ken Burns" is enabled appears significantly lower than when Ken Burns is turned off. I've looked closely at a few photos that contain text and lines that can be pretty objectively judged, and photos definitely appear to be in a lower resolution and rather fuzzy if Ken Burns is enabled.
Turn Ken Burns off and play the same slideshow, and the photos appear sharp and crisp? Is this a known issue? Any way to adjust this? Thanks!
Dave

I just added some text with Photoshop to a photo and ran it thru the auto KB effect slideshow and didn't see any degradation of the image/text. What size is your file? If it has small pixel dimensions then it might be fuzzy when used in the KB effect as it would be enlarged.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Ken Burns effects in iWeb

Sorry if this is a dumb question. Im new to iWeb and am trying to to build a home page with photos as the background that rotate from one to another and have the Ken Burns effect on them while they are on screen. Any way to do this?

Lew ~ Welcome to the discussions. If you're referring to the background in iWeb's Inspector > Page pane > Layout tab, it's not possible to use anything but a static image — although perhaps someone could figure out how to use a moving image as a background outside of iWeb's Inspector.
An alternative is a large movie slideshow with the Ken Burns effect — but it may take some time to begin playing in a browser and, if it was a Flash slideshow, would tax the viewer's processor considerably. (A QuickTime movie would be less taxing on the processor.)
A compromise is to avoid the Ken Burns effect and simply create a QT movie slideshow having a basic fading transition. Here's an example (not mine) — note how fast it loads in your browser:
http://www.heese-cadieux.com
...and it's done like this:
iPhoto > select photos > File > Export... > QuickTime tab ...set width and height, etc.
Then iWeb > Media button > Movies tab ...drag in your movie created above by iPhoto.
Then iWeb > Inspector > QuickTime tab ...settings.
Note: The above generates a QT slideshow pseudo movie of small file size and thus appears quickly in a web browser. By pseudo, I mean that the non-fading parts of the movie sequence are actually one single static frame timed to stay on screen — not a series of movie frames.

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