Ken Burns - **** you!

I've been attempting to create a stop-motion animation on Adobe Premier, but after several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to give iMovie a try. No Go. I can not remove the dastardly Ken Burns effect and it's KILLING ME! It is so incredibly frustrating and nothing I've searched seems to be of any help. Does anyone have a fool-proof plan on thwarting this Ken Burns guy? If so, I would greatly appreciate the help! Thanks so much!

Go to File/Project Properties and change the default action when adding stills to FIT or CROP.
You can also change Ken Burns to FIT or CROP on individual slides by using the Rotate Crop Ken Burns Tool.

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  • 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

  • Can you Turn on the Ken Burns Motion Effect in IDVD?

    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!

  • Instant Ken Burns For YOU! ..... Or The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Editor.

    Let's not beat around the bush ....... I am lazy!
    I have always admired the way, with a few simple clicks, you can transform a selection of your slides in iPhoto, into quite an impressive instant slideshow.
    One big advantage is the auto-Ken Burns effect, though on occasions it can pan something important out of the frame!
    Now for lazy people like me, there is the FCE equivalent ........ in the form of Piero's Ken Burns Filter which is called the "Auto Pan Zoom".
    It can be used in auto-default mode if you are like me, but can also be customised to give the exact effect you want.
    I have just done one of my infamous "One minute tests" and was quite impressed.
    I imported a random selection of photos and dragged them into the timeline along with the transition.
    I then selected them all and dropped the KB Filter onto them.
    Finally I de-interlaced them and added a bit of music.
    The whole experiment took less than 5 minutes.
    I don't claim it to be a prize-winning film but I think it shows how well Piero's filter can work for a slothful person like me!
    http://vimeo.com/3524283
    Download Piero's Filter: http://web.mac.com/piero.fiorani/PieroFFCE_Effect/Auto_PanZoom.html

    Very nice...
    The little jump you may have noticed during the fade-out during the end was recently fixed in Piero's newer version (I believe this to be the case).
    This is a life-saver for people like me who frequently make trip videos with hundreds of photos and don't want to spend the time keyframing every single one of them. Before I got FCE this year, I had been using iMovie HD ('06) to do the "Ken Burns" effect very nicely. However, this often took months to complete a project. I really want to use FCE for my next trip photo show, but am aware that individually keyframing each photo would probably take even more time than I could do it in iMovie.
    I realize this was not the purpose of this thread, but here is a question about importing photos into FCE. In iMovie, I experienced pretty decent quality just directly importing the pictures from iPhoto. However, reading through recent threads has given me the impression that importing stills into FCE is considerably more work.
    If I simply imported my stills from a folder on my desktop, would I experience similar quality to using them in iMovie HD? Or does the way FCE works make me have to go through more steps?
    And finally (as if I already haven't asked enough questions), how did you import your photos Ian? The quality in your creation is good enough for my purposes, and I am hoping that there is an easy and quick way to do what I want.

  • How do you pan and/zoom an image--the "Ken Burns" effect?

    How do you pan and/zoom an image--the "Ken Burns" effect?

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  • How can you PERMANENTLY change the default Ken Burns effect?

    I don't like the Ken Burns effect and want to PERMANENTLY remove it from the default setting for slideshows. I know how to deselect it every time I create a new slideshow, but isn't there a way to change the default setting so the Ken Burns effect is not selected unless I want it?

    Terence Devlin wrote:
    You may have a problem with your keyboard as you seem to be unable to type the word 'permanently" in lower case.
    SImilarly, you cannot permanently disable the Ken Burns effect and remove it from the default settings.
    iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
    Regards
    TD
    I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but I feel compelled to say that:
    a) This reply is great, probably one of the best I've ever seen.
    b) I'm a fan, TD, I'm a fan.

  • 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?
    If so, you can get bigger boxes on the Portrait ones by clicking "Allow Black" in iMovie 11. (iMovie 09 did not have this feature.)

  • 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.

  • Can you recommend any ken burns type photo plug in for fce?

    Hi,
    I have a big slide show to produce which I would like to do with FCE since I will be incorporating video also. One thing I love about iphoto is the ken burns effect, and was wondering if there are any ken burns type plug ins for FCE? I know you can do this with keyframes, but was hoping that I could a find a plugin that would be easier and faster to use.
    I have read older posts on this, but was wondering if there are any current plugins out there that people would recommend.
    Thanks!

    You could also try Piero's free Auto Pan Zoom plugin.
    You simply drop it on your timeline and all your slides will have a Ken Burns effect added instantly.
    You cannot control the effect very much, but as long as you are not particularly fussy it could be the answer to your problem.
    http://web.mac.com/piero.fiorani/PieroFFCE_Effect/Auto_PanZoom.html

  • 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 I get rid of the Ken Burns effect on my photos

    I would like to get rid of the Ken Burns effect on my photos I addes to my video. How do I do that

    When you create a New Project and give it a name, the next thing you should always do is go to File>Project Properties and make sure in 'Initial Photo Placement you have selected either Fit or Crop. It seems the default setting is the Ken Burns annoyance.

  • Cannot get rid of Ken Burns effect on slideshow

    I have turned off Ken Burns effect when creating slideshow on my Mac Mini (the one that I share iPhoto libraries with Apple TV). I did the same in Apple TV.
    Still I have these funky effect that may fit some documehtaries, but is inappropriate to some other content... and one has to realize that (e.g. if you present photos from someones funeral you do not give some fancy effects to upset audience, right?)
    Isn't it a bug in software? Anyone had the same issue? Under what circumstances the checkboxes to turn it of in APPle TV and iPhoto are ignored by Apple TV?
    Thank you.

    I figured out how to do this.

  • Preview of Ken Burns effect doesn't work with some pictures

    I just recently installed a new graphics card (ATI Radeon 7500) on my Sawtooth, 1.2 GHz, so I could utilize the Ken Burns effect in imovie HD. It works but only partly. It works great but with some pictures the preview pane doesn't show the photo. What I see is a what looks like bad reception on an old TV (fuzzies and the picture is distorted so bad you can't even make it out). With other pictures the preview shows up fine. I'm sure I've loaded the drivers. What else can I do?

    Hi Tonyy13.
    I am presenting the same problem. I can set the Ken Burns' effect while I am with the pictures before placing them in the Clip or Timeframe viewer. After placing them there, if I try to edit the picture (either by right clicking and choosing -edit picture or by control clicking and doing the same, I ended up with a black background. If you change the setting in this black ackground and update this changes they will be effective. So, you can change the slide duration, and everything in the sliders but without an image.
    I was running System 10.3.9 and I thought this was the reason. Today, I went and bought Tiger but it didn't sove the problem. I do believe it is a bug in the program. According to Apple's Help and David Pogue's "The Missing Manual" this shouldn't happen.
    If you solve this problem reply to this posting. If I did I will reply to your posting. Thank You.

  • Preview of Ken Burns Effect is a black screen!!

    So, I am doing a movie for my parents, and I have 102 photos that I have loaded into IMovie. I loaded them in to the clips section, as I am not a huge fan of iPhoto personally. At first, no problems, but later, as I dragged photos into the playhead area, my photos wouldn't allow me to preview the Ken Burns Effect. I would drag them into the playhead, click on "Meda" button, and then select the Show Picture Settings button. The preview screen goes black as the effect scrolls through the process, disallowing me to see the preview. I have deleted the pictures from IMovie, re-inserted them, and started over (AAAARRRRRGGGGGG!), and it happened again.
    Any Ideas? Thanks for the help!
    Oh, and I have made no modifications to my machine (no new graphics card), and the pictures are all in .jpg format.

    Hi Tonyy13.
    I am presenting the same problem. I can set the Ken Burns' effect while I am with the pictures before placing them in the Clip or Timeframe viewer. After placing them there, if I try to edit the picture (either by right clicking and choosing -edit picture or by control clicking and doing the same, I ended up with a black background. If you change the setting in this black ackground and update this changes they will be effective. So, you can change the slide duration, and everything in the sliders but without an image.
    I was running System 10.3.9 and I thought this was the reason. Today, I went and bought Tiger but it didn't sove the problem. I do believe it is a bug in the program. According to Apple's Help and David Pogue's "The Missing Manual" this shouldn't happen.
    If you solve this problem reply to this posting. If I did I will reply to your posting. Thank You.

  • How can I stop iMovie from automatically cropping and applying kens burns to my photos?

    When I import stills into iMovie, it automatically adds a kens burns effect to each photo, and crops them. If I want to get rid of these effects, I have to do it manually for each individual photo. This takes alot of time and is very tedious to do. Is there a way that I can stop iMovie from automatically adding these effects? Or maybe a way that I can undo these effects on all photos at the same time?

    in the iMovie Project settings/pref, you can switch-off the automatic applying of KB

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