Ken Burns: wavy line issue during zoom

As a photographer I work exclusively with stills. Regardless of resoultion/format, images with a full-range K.Burns zoom have undulating, wavy lines. This is especially noticeable in compositions with parallel lines, and further intensified by zoom durations over 5 seconds.
This is true even when optimized by iDVD set at "High Quality."
Appreciate any insights/soultions...

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.

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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.

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.
Message was edited by: Charlie Brown Jr.

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.

Shimmering of stills when using Ken Burns

I know Ken Burns did not invent panning, zooming, and movement in stills, but I think everyone know what I’m referring to.
I’m using FCP Studio 1, yes, it’s old and not supported by Apple any more, but it is more than enough for me.
On the stills that I set the keyframes for movement, during the movement the faces of the individuals were blurry and the entire still seemed to shimmer.
I have seen that in smaller amounts before, but this particular project there seemed to be much more.
What am I doing wrong?
Hank Kearns

The flickering is an artifact of the interlaced nature of video. It is a result of very thin (often horizontal) elements that exist on one scanline as is common in text or titling. This can also be the case in scanned images with great deal of detail with high contrast.
As the alternate fields play, the flashing element is essentially being turned on/off. The basic strategy is to get the element to exist over two scanlines so it is refreshed every time the field plays or to reduce the amount of contrast so the difference between ON and OFF is not noticeable.
Things to try (In increasing order of image degradation)
• (in FCP) field order>none
• (in FCP or Photoshop) reduce whites by 10% - reduces overly bright areas
• (in FCP) flicker filter - minimum
• (in Photoshop) motion blur>vertical> .2 - .5 pixels - blurs vertically only
• (In FCP or Photoshop) Gaussian blur> .2 - .5 pixels -blurs both horizontally as well as vertically
• (in FCP or Photoshop) deinterlace - throws away half the image and is generally not appropriate on scanned images
Remember: Unless you are viewing your work in the appropriate external NTSC/PAL monitor, you are playing blind. The computer monitor only shows you a proxy image.
If you have slowed your material significantly, and have not used some sort of frame blending/optical flow processing, you may be simply duplicating frames to create the additional material to pad the playback. The flashing you see is the result of this.
good luck.
x

Ken Burns rendering corrupted/static images

I seem to be having an issue with imovie 6.0.1 , where when I add a new photo to my movie (either from the media/photos/iphotos options, or from dragging and dropping from a seperate folder), the resulting 4 sec rendered clip comes out corrupted, with grey static lines across (i can't see the picture at all). Looks sort of like static on a tv.
I'm using standard sized JPEG files 2032 * 1524 from a Kodak camera. Although, I have noticed similar problems from diffrent sources.
I've tried using diffrent imovie settings, mpeg4, dv, etc.
The problem seems kind of random where the clip might get rendered correctly one time, then the next it wont. Sometimes, the rendered clip comes out tinted red. The tintind red seems to be specific to another source : one scanner that I used.
I didn't have this problem with imovie 5 , before I upgraded.
Even upon exporting the movie to say a quicktime clip, the problem stays is persistent in the final clip.
At first glance (and Im still testing this), the images get correctly rendered when I export the images from iphoto to a seperate folder at a different resolution and then add the photos from there. This is kind of tedious, because I routinely edit photos in iphoto, and I don't want to be exporting them every few minutes. Nor do I want to export my entire iphoto library.
Perhaps Ken Burns has a issue with certain Jpeg formats?
Any possible solutions?
Thanks,
Vic
1.42 Ghz PowerPc Ibook Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Thanks for the help,
I tried exporting to the same resolution, but that didn't fix the problem.
Doing any sort of editing on the picture (say croping it), does appear to fix the problem.
I've tried using other photo sources (digitial cameras), and it seems to me that photos taken with some digital cameras don't get this problem where as photos from other cameras sometimes do.
It seems that the Ken Burns renderer doesn't like JPEG's coming from certain cameras, as soon as these JPEG's are resaved by a diffrent program (say iphoto) the problem is fixed.
Atleast thats what I think the problem is, Im not 100% sure because this corruption problem doesn't always occur, its seems sort of random.
Also the problem appears diffrent then the problem mentioned with imovie 4. For one thing the static lines are horizontol vs. vertical, and the mentioned work around doesn't fix the problem.

Pausing at the end of a Ken Burns Effect

Hi,
I have a number of photos that I am using within imovie. I am applying a Ken Burns effect to scroll or zoom on the photo. At the end of the effect I would like the photo to pause.
The viewer would see a photo, the zoom/scroll get to the final position, then the photo held for a couple of seconds.
Is there a way of acheiving this - i know i can import the photo twice, the first doing the effect, the second with no effect - but how do i get the second photo exactly the same as the first photo after effect?

I don't understand what "Option-click" means: how is this executed? I
Hold down the Option key on the keyboard, then click on the Start end of the Start/End thingy. In this context, Option-clicking applies the End settings to the Start, so the clip no longer has an animated zoom.
I also don't see how one selects the duration of the "pause".
The whole clip we're making is the pause. It's a second clip that plays after the first (zooming) clip. These directions create a second clip that "pauses" after the first clip zooms.
Option-dragging the first clip makes a copy that we change into a pause. (Holding down the Option key and dragging the clip to another location duplicates the clip.)
Hope it makes better sense.
Karl

Ken Burns Effect Pollutes Everything

If you're putting together a slideshow, do not turn on the KB Effect for anything. Ever. I hate to say this, for I love this feature. It has enhanced many of my slides. However, it's a sorcerer's apprentice.
It causes nightmares once it's in your timeline. You can't update its durations, unless you delete the slide & start all over. I've found, oddly, that if a transition is connected, and you try to reduce the duration of the slide, after the transition is rendered, the slide, instead of having reduced duration, is actually increased by the amount of the reduction you wanted!
Beware of using KBE for any photo in your iPhoto imported album. Once you invoke KBE on any photo, it pollutes every photo you click on, thereafter, whether you turn it off or not. Karl Petersen posted a message last month, praising this polluting feature of KBE:
"The most important is that all of the Ken Burns settings, the KB checkbox, zoom, pan and duration are controlled by the LAST imported clip you made, or a previously-imported clip you clicked on. THAT's what sets the default setting for your next import(s). (A very nice feature, by the way, for it lets you apply the Ken Burns settings of one clip to the next photos you import. You don't have to reconfigure settings each time.)"
First, it's boring to an audience to have repetitious effects. Second, I don't know what he means by "import." iM4, in moving a photo from the Pane to the Viewer (timeline), says it's importing it, but I already imported it from iPhoto4. Third, I'm not so lazy as to resent having to reconfigure individual photos, if it means I have control over what I want to reconfigure & what I don't want to reconfigure.
Third, I wish Apple would realize users do have a brain: They don't need everything automated. There should be two buttons: KBE on for all, another KBE off for all. KBE off would allow the user to select which photos KBE is confined to. One thing I like about Microsoft is, it doesn't assume anything about the user. The user has choice & is always in control.
I'm really at the point of not invoking KBE for anything, anymore. It's causing too much frustration, & it's not worth the time trying to figure it out, especially once the photo is in the timeline.
BTW, what's the relationship between the Monitor, the Timeline, & the window in the upper right corner of the Photo Pane?

The conclusions you've reached about the Ken Burns Effect are so strange it makes me wonder if you've understood how it works. Unlike the Ken Burns Effect in iPhoto — which adds the effect on-the-fly as a sequence of photos is played — the Ken Burns Effect in iMovie affects how the photo is imported and rendered. iMovie renders video — creates a movie clip — based on your Ken Burns settings.
Remember, iMovie is all about creating video clips that play as part of a movie. iPhoto, on the other hand, has no movie. It simply displays a series of images. It never creates a movie until we export the slideshow to a QuickTime movie.
Changing the Ken Burns settings of a photo in iPhoto simply changes how that image is played in the iPhoto slideshow. Changing the Ken Burns settings of an iMovie clip, on the other hand, changes how it is (immediately) rendered into a new video clip.
You can't update its durations, unless you delete the slide & start all over
Of course you can change a duration. Click on the rendered clip in the Timeline, change the duration, and Update the clip.
Of course, if you've edited a previously-rendered clip — added a title or transition, for example — then it is no longer a KB clip. But if you remove the title or transition you can update the KB settings normally.
First, it's boring to an audience to have repetitious effects.
I never suggested you use the same KB effect on all your clips. I suggested that if you want to avoid having to reconfigure your Ken Burns settings before importing a photo, first click on a clip that already uses those KB settings. This saves time and considerable aggravation. I find this especially useful because the KB settings window is so clumsy (and buggy).
Second, I don't know what he means by "import." iM
Each time you add a photo from the iPhoto list to your iMovie project it is imported to the project. iMovie adds the photo to the project, then renders the video clip, if needed. (The imported photo is retained so you can Update the clip later, if you want.)
Third, I'm not so lazy as to resent having to reconfigure individual photos, if it means I have control over what I want to reconfigure & what I don't want to reconfigure.
Fine, iMovie lets you do that. There's nothing preventing you from configuring new Ken Burns settings for each photo. (My suggestion was to avoid having to do that unnecessarily.)
Third, I wish Apple would realize users do have a brain:
Apple DOES assume we have brains. And that we use them to learn how the program actually works, and why.
There should be two buttons: KBE on for all, another KBE off for all. KBE off would allow the user to select which photos KBE is confined to.
It's that point which makes me wonder if you've misunderstood something important. The Ken Burns settings we apply in iMovie do NOT control how the movie PLAYS in iMovie, at least not directly, like it does in iPhoto (and other slideshow software). The KB settings control how a clip is RENDERED when the photo is imported to iMovie. Once rendered, that clip is FIXED unless we re-render (Update) it. Changing its Ken Burns settings changes the clip ONLY if we re-render the clip.
Another way to think about it is that the Ken Burns Effect affects how a photo is imported. Once imported, it does not affect how it plays.
Once you invoke KBE on any photo, it pollutes every photo you click on, thereafter, whether you turn it off or not
There's no pollution of anything. For the reasons I mentioned earlier, the settings do NOT change anything about existing photos or clips until you Apply those settings, which (usually) causes iMovie to re-render the clip.
Try to re-think how Ken Burns works, where you assume iMovie is creating video, not just a series of images it plays in sequence. Those are two very different things.
Karl

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.

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
If you want the pause at the beginning
- 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.
With a group picture, you can simulate a real Ken Burns effect with
transition, pause, zoom in, pause, [pan, pause] ... [pan, pause,] zoom out, pause, transition

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.
Has anyone else experienced this with the new version of imovie?

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.
If your image imports off center it's because the Ken Burns pan setting is currently set off center. To re-center it, turn ON the Ken Burns checkbox. Stop the preview. Click on the "Start" side of the Start/End thingy. Drag the zoom slider a bit to the right, then all the way left. Repeat for the End side of the thingy. Now the image is centered, and the zoom set to 1.00. Click Apply, so it sticks.
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.
Karl

Cant turn off the ken burns effect

The ken burns effect (why is that on by default for crissakes?) cannot be tuned off!!!! I have about 10 images in a movie made up of about 100 still images on which the ken burns effect cannot be turned off. I tried unchecking the ken burns check box & hitting the update button, but it immediately turns itself back on!! Tis is with iMovie 3, and as i said, it affects only the first 10 or so images in this particular project.

I know, sometimes it feels like Ken Burns has a mind of its own. It WILL do what you want, but first you have to figure out its rules.
The most important is that all of the Ken Burns settings, the KB checkbox, zoom, pan and duration are controlled by the LAST imported clip you made, or a previously-imported clip you clicked on. THAT's what sets the default setting for your next import(s). (A very nice feature, by the way, for it lets you apply the Ken Burns settings of one clip to the next photos you import. You don't have to reconfigure settings each time.)
That also means that when you uncheck the KB checkbox that won't "stick". When you click on some other clip it may change.
So when updating an existing clip, the trick is to select the clip, THEN adjust the Ken Burns settings, THEN Update the clip.
A complicating factor is that previously-imported photos to which special effects or other editing has been applied are no longer considered Ken Burns clips, so clicking on them doesn't have the same result.
So pay close attention to what you click on, and even closer attention to whether or not there is a clip selected or an image selected in the Photos pane selected. iMovie will select a photo on its own when you haven't selected something.
It works like you want, but first you have to see that what it does is you want.
Karl

Wavy movement of Ken Burns

I know similar issues have been brought up with the Ken Burns affect being choppy but I haven't seen anyone point out that they're seeing it as 'wavy'.
What I see is that photos with contrasting lines in them (in this case, kitchen cabinets against walls) look like they're wavy when panning with the Ken Burns affect. Its almost nausiating.
Is there ANY way to do away with this? It seems to be much worse once the video is transitioned to DVD using iDVD and played on either a computer or a TV.

You problem is not the same as the link above described (i.e. the old iMovie bug which renders jaggy stills from _non-Ken Burnsed_ images).
You applied Ken Burns so those images should be immune to THAT problem.
I guess what you are seeing is suboptimal subpixel rendering with Ken Burns. Sometimes the images may by TOO sharp so they induce interlace flicker when viewed on a TV. This is caused by the fact that a thin and sharp 1-line vertical object is visible only half of the time and even a 2-line vertical object may seem to jump up and down on an interlaced TV (see interlace flicker):
http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/fields/fields.html
Some applications intentionally slightly blur images to reduce the flicker (Photo To Movie's higher quality setting, for example). Also in Toast Titanium 7 the output doesn't flicker.
You can reduce interlace flicker on a TV with image editing applications. One nice approach is to slightly blur the input still image with 90° (vertical) Motion Blur (use 1 pixel value to PAL/NTSC 576/480 vertical input resolutions -- if the vertical resolution of the input still is larger you have to increase the filter's pixel value accordingly. For example: if the input still is 2048 x 1536, use 3 pixel value in the filter because 1536/576=2.7).
The idea is to cut down on vertical resolution (excess of which causes interlace flicker on an interlaced TV) without compromising horizontal resolution. Another method is to apply a small Gaussian blur to the image. Just using a smaller resolution (640x480) in the input images also prevents flicker but the images may appear slightly fuzzy instead (and you really should not zoom into such low resolution image with Ken Burns).
So: you might try Photo To Movie instead of Ken Burns and see if it is any better. AFAIR there is a Photo To Movie demo.

Zooming into video clip a la Ken Burns effect

Sorry for what may be a dumb question with an obvious answer, but I've not ever seen this come up in any FCP forum.
Does the "Ken Burns" effect also work on video clips? That is, if you have a one camera interview shot or tutorial, can you "zoom" in on the person as you might with a still photo? If I had a 2nd camera or some one to shoot for me, it would be less of an issue. But, just to have some movement occasionally instead of a static talking head would be nice. I suppose if overdone, focus and quaility issues would come into play.
Thanks,
Dave

Tom Wolsky wrote:
The explanation isn't quite right. Scaling is a logrithmic animation. An image at 100% scale fills the screen; when the image is at 50% scale it's a quarter size of the screen. This is why when you scale an image up it seems to get slower and slower as it scales up, and vice versa. Position on the other hand is a linear animation . The difference in the two is the problem.
Tom, you have great experience of this, so I'm a little wary of criticising but are you sure? I see that when scaling an image its area does not vary linearly (technically it's quadratic, not logarithmic, I think) and this will produce the illusion of changing speed which you speak of. Nevertheless, any given point in the image will move with constant speed.
On the other hand, position is not implemented linearly in FCP X. I set up a simple animation to test this, and at the start and end of the movement, the image's Y-coordinate changes by 2 pixels per frame of animation, whereas at the mid-point it changes by 6 pixels per frame: three times as fast.

Help! ken burns/ old zoom in zoom out option

Hey any help is appreciated. I'm making a picture slideshow in imovie '09 and I'm not completely thrilled with having it fit to screen or the ken burns affect. Is there anyway to add a slight zoom in/ slight zoom out to the picture like there was in the old imovie? Please let me know any advice if you can i have to finish this movie by tomorrow! Thank you!

You don't say if you are editing standard definition DV-NTSC or HD, but I guess you are talking SD - both for your sequence setting and your TV set.
Some comments:
- any picture of any resolution will be converted to the sequence resolution (720x480 in DV-NTSC) when you edit the picture to the timeline. This means that quality will necessarily degrade; this cannot be avoided, but this is true also for iMovie. Motion bu itself should not further degrade quality.
- it's important how you export your movie for iDVD: use Export/QuickTime Movie (not Using QuickTime Conversion).
- as Ian suggests you may try de-interlace filter or the blur filter
- I suggest you to watch the movie on your TV set during editing: connect the TV to your Mac firewire port: use a D/A converter (bridge) converting firewire connection to analog connection; you may use also a camcorder with pass-through. This allows you to check the movie quality as it will appear when watching the DVD: most important for stills and color corrections.
Note that the still in the viewer, before editing to the timeline, has the quality of the original still before its conversion to the sequence settings; so this is not meaningful.
Piero
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Nudge Ken Burns zoom location

I want to line up two still frames--one that ends after a Ken Burns zoom (in) and the following one that "freezes" where the zoom ended. Is there a way to nudge the location of the ending zoom (or beginning zoom for the following frame)? When I try this I don't have fine enough mouse control to line them up accurately so there is a small jump from one to the next.
Any help?

I want to line up two still frames--one that ends after a Ken Burns zoom (in) and the following one that "freezes" where the zoom ended. Is there a way to nudge the location of the ending zoom (or beginning zoom for the following frame)?
Very easily done.
1) Create original KBE.
2) Select the image containing the KBE and press "Command-C" to copy data/settings to temporary memory.
3) De-select the image, move playhead to end of segment, and press "Command-V" to copy data to project window.
4) Select the newly added image and open the Crop Tool window.
5) Press the Start-End Revers icon to swap red and green KBE windows.
6) With the old End window now set as the new Start window, press the "Crop" button.
7) exit the Crop Tool window and set the timing duration for the "Hold" image.
If you have followed these instruction correctly, you should now have a seamless transition from your KBE image to your "still" image.

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