Picture in Picture tool - Fit/ Crop/ Ken Burns - iMovie

I have added an image without a background on top of a clip using the Picture in Picture tool - selecting the 'Fit' option instead of the 'Ken Burns' option suddenly gives it a black background. I have successfully done this before so don't know what I'm missing this time.
Any help would be much appreciated.

laurenmatkins wrote:
… an image without a background on top of a clip using the Picture in Picture tool - selecting the 'Fit' option instead of the 'Ken Burns' option suddenly gives it a black background. …
you're trying to accomplish the 'transparent.png' trick ...
as described e.g. here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/21897581#21897581
prob is: when you just one time only apply fit or KB to that PiP, it is 'poisened'=the transparent areas are irreversible made to black.
so, a) erase the PiP from your Project timeline
b) in Project Properties, in the Timing tab, set "Initial Photo Placement" to "Crop"
c) try again ...

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Hey -
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Hi Mike - there is a bug in HD 6 that dumps the original import of the photo into the imovie trash after you have re-edited it. Thus imovie no longer has the original to work from, so it produces a black screen and no further editing can be done.
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I'm using FCPX 10.1.4 on a Macbook Pro Retina 15 (mid-2012), Yosemite 10.10.2. However, I've seen this problem over the previous several releases of FCPX, and also in OSX 10.9.x
When using the Crop/Ken Burns editor, the corners of the area are bracketed with blue handles (or red/green for the ken burns edit).
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To move the crop region, you click within the bracketed area and drag to move the crop-window over the source material.
To resize the crop region, you click a corner bracket handle, and see the bracket change to a slightly larger bracket, then drag it in/out to make the area smaller/larger.
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Even worse with the ken burns editor, often the click toggles between the start and end crop regions, when I really wanted to just resize one of the regions.
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I don't have problems with the Trim or the Crop tool, but with the Ken Burns tool it can be sometimes tricky to hit the right spot.
I went and experimented a bit, as I don't use Ken Burns very often.
I can offer two little tidbits from my experience:
1) Cursor size: I am in the habit of having a larger cursor (by using the Accessibility in System Preferences), because, especially when using two displays it is easier to spot where it is. I found that this makes it trickier to know where the active cursor spot is. Reducing the cursor back to normal makes hitting those green and red corners much easier
2) Changing from start to end in Ken Burns: if you want to hit, say, a green corner which happens to be *inside* the red frame, and you have red (end) selected, you have to click first to select green (start), and then click and drag. Otherwise your click will register as a drag of the red frame. No such problem if the aforementioned green corner is outside the red frame (then click and drag immediately works). This makes sense, but it was not obvious to me at first.

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I'm having some trouble adjusting the timing for pictures that I have put the Ken Burns effect onto, in imovie. I have selected all the clips to be 4 seconds long. Then I have selected the Ken Burns clips to be 4 seconds long as well, but they either have to be RENDERED in order to change the time (and this, I've heard messes up the quality of the pic making it "jagged") OR it only allows the picture to be set at it's pre-given RANDOM lower than 4 second time.
Make sense? PLEASE HELP! I'm about sick of imovie with all the problems I've had.
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Then I have selected the Ken Burns
clips to be 4 seconds long as well, but they either
have to be RENDERED in order to change the time (and
this, I've heard messes up the quality of the pic
making it "jagged")
You may have misunderstood something important, Smiley, so I want to correct it. Ken Burns does NOT add jaggies to images. It actually INOCULATES the image from getting jaggies later.
The jaggies are added when you press the Create iDVD Project button (in the iDVD tab). That's when iMovie offers to render any unrendered photos -- convert them to video clips. If you grant permission to render, the jaggies get added to those clips.
Ken Burns renders images beautifully. The rendering routine iMovie uses later adds the jaggies.
OR it only allows the picture to
be set at it's pre-given RANDOM lower than 4 second
time.
The user interface for configuring Ken Burns settings is confusing and sometimes buggy. Until you figure it out, it sometimes appears to have a mind of its own. For what it's worth, I've never seen KB apply random durations to a group of images, and it's not a complaint we see here. So my guess is you're doing something inconsistent with how the Ken Burns user interface likes to do things, or you've bumped up against a bug.
One bug is that the text boxes in Ken Burns are quite unreliable. It's best to use the sliders to set the duration and zooms instead of the text boxes. The duration slider is more reliable than your typing the duration in the text box at the end of the slider, for example. If you use the text box, remember to hit the tab key after entering the text. And, of course, be sure to use the sec:frame format, e.g. 4:00 or 4:22. If you type the numbers differently, iMovie will probably do something unexpected.
One of the interface anomalies occurs when the Ken Burns checkbox is on when you select a photo in the iPhoto list.Then Ken Burns does a preview dance in its little thumbnail image, with animation. As that animation runs, changing any Ken Burns settings will almost certainly fail. You will probably accidentally set a feature you didn't intend.
Here's why: As the animation progresses, Ken Burns switches from the Start position to the End position. If you click on a photo in the list, then reach up to set the Start position, you'll probably unintentionally set the End position. So always wait for the preview to finish before setting anything.
Another confusing (but useful) feature is that Ken Burns always applies the features of your last-clicked-on Ken Burns clip to the upcoming import. So if you pre-set your Ken Burns features, THEN click on a previously-imported Ken Burns clip, the Ken burns settings will change from YOUR settings to the settings for that clip. (That's immensely useful, for it lets us apply the settings of a clip we like to one or more photos we want to import, but it can be very confusing.) So if you have manually configured some settings for the next import, do NOT click on a clip before importing that image.
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Does the moire effect created w/ the ken burns still occur in imovie '11?
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IMovie11 is aimed at the hobbyist and specialized in producing videos optimized for size like youtube,iphone and the likes. Even iDVD export produces videos with artefacts for me. I use iMovie only for facebook and youtube. Its easy for that, but only for that. ( to me at last ). FCE* for all advanced projects where quality output and/or cinematic effects matters.
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*Do you have iMovie? You can create a slideshow in iMovie, and the Ken Burns effect gives you a great deal of control. You can set whether it zooms in or zooms out, and you can control the exact starting point and ending point, as well as how long it takes. It's really great for synchronizing photos with music, as you can make each photo stay on screen as quickly or as slowly as you need.*
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Once you change this parameter, 1:9 will mean 1 second and 9 frames, not 1 and 9 tenths of a second.
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IMovie '09 & IDVD: The Missing Manual
By David Pogue
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/movies-video/36798-idvd-ken-burns-effect-automa ted-slideshows.html
http://maccreate.com/imovie/imovie-803-imovie-09-adds-crop-ken-burns-for-video
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/?cmp#iphoto
http://store.apple.com/us/product/TV554Z/A
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Photos get auto-cropped and ken burns. stop it.

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When you start a new project, or to change a project you are currently working on, go to FILE/PROJECT PROPERTIES, and you can change the default behaviour for initial photo placement from Ken Burns to either FIT or CROP. Crop will make the photo fit the frame exactly by cropping off the top abd bottom. FIT will make the entire photo fit by letterboxing.
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Now, select all the photos you want to change by holding down the Command Key as you click, so you can select multiple photos.
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Hello
working with iMovie HD 6.0.4
I do have iMovie 11, but can't figure out how to manage more than one soundtrack (Movie and Music).
So back to iMovie HD 6.
I searched the Help section regarding turning off Ken Burns Effect.
This is what it says:
To remove the pan and zoom effect from a photo in your movie:
Select the image in the clip viewer or timeline viewer.
Click the Media button, click Photos at the top of the Media pane, and then click Show Photo Settings.
In the Photo Settings window, deselect the Ken Burns Effect checkbox.
Click Apply.
BUT: here is NO checkbox to deselect Ken Burns Effect.
Anybody know what happened?
The reason I want to get rid of it is that zooming makes stills unwatchable. I it barely ok in iPhoto but in iMovie, the resolution is totally messed up.
It would be great if somebody has an idea to turn off Ken Burns Effect.
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