Photos with motion and transitions have jerky intros and fades

Question

Most of the time when I add a Ken Burns type motion to a photo and then as a transition or several, the playback has little hiccups in it at the start or end of the transition. I render the project and it's still there but not on every singe one. What is this? Sometimes I can fix it by re-motioning the image but that is soooo time consuming. This is simple stuff it should be smooth.

Answer 1

Hi -
It sounds like you are editing a photo to the timeline, programing your Ken Burns move, and then adding transitions to and from this clip.
If that is the case, you must remember that adding a transition can use portions of the clip that proceed the in point of the clip, and follow the out point of the clip to make the transitions. So if you are commencing your move at the cut point, and you add, for example a Centered 30 frame dissolve at the cut to the clip, when the dissolve commences you will see 15 frames of the clip static, then clip going in to motion and starting the Ken Burns move you made.
The same is true on the out point of the clip - you will need to keyframe the move in such a way that the motion continues throughout the duration of the transition you intend to use.
Hope this helps.