Select where Ken Burns into?

On Windows Movie Maker, I could select the location where the KBE would zoom into. As far as I can tell, iMovie does it automagically. Is there a way to select where to apply the KBE (not on/off or zoom in/out)?
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Pasting Ken Burns Into Clips Moves clip

This has only happened a few times. To save time, I paste the ken burns attributes into multiple selected clips. I use the paste attributes command. At times when I to that the clip itself is moved out of the visible movie frame. I have only noticed this with FCP X 10.1. Yes I can work around this but I was just wondering.

This has only happened a few times. To save time, I paste the ken burns attributes into multiple selected clips. I use the paste attributes command. At times when I to that the clip itself is moved out of the visible movie frame. I have only noticed this with FCP X 10.1. Yes I can work around this but I was just wondering.

Where are the Ken Burns controls?

I've got iPhoto 4.0.3. The iPhoto Help menu tells me to go to View>Thumbnails, but my View menu doesn't have Thumbnails as an option. Nevertheless, I can get a screen full of thumbnails when I click on the "Organise" button at the bottom of the iPhoto pane. The help menu says to select the photo you want (no problem there) and then to select the Ken Burns Effect box ( a screenshot of which is shown), but this box is nowhere to be seen. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Where is this durn Ken Burns thing?
Ken W.

Ken,
iPhoto 5 has features not available in iPhoto 4. If you want to use the Ken Burns effect, use iMovie to make a movie from photos in your iPhoto collection.
I don't know how you got the wrong Help document (maybe a foul up when your machine was built?), and I'm not sure of any way to fix it other than by deleting the errant document and running the iPhoto 4 installer again. You'll need to delete the iPhoto 5 Help document and any iPhoto-related ".pkg" files in the root level "Library >Receipts" folder before you reinstall. Everything else can stay.

Quite urgent Ken Burns effect problem

I am working on a documentary (due tomorrow afternoon). This is a fulll length piece and has hundreds of photographs in it. The trouble is; all the photographs when they where imported automatically got the Ken Burns effect... I want to de-effect them. So I got to Media--Show photo settings and de-select the Ken Burns effect.
One some photographs, it works fine. But on others, I click on Show photo settings and it simply turns the screen to black, even if I select the photograph again.
This is a bit distressing as all the photographs have intense Ken Burns effect which cannot be for the final product. If I should be more detailed about what I am trying to say, please tell me. It actually is pretty urgent that I figure this out.
Thank you very much.

Have you emptied iMovie's trash? If so, you may experience a 'bug' in iMovie that will not allow you to change the settings of a clip that was imported with the KB effect. That is why you see the black screen. iMovie can no longer access the original photo's clip because it sent it to the trash. This is not a problem so long as you do not empty the trash. But, once emptied, the only way to fix it is to reimport the photo.
Here is a link to more discussion about it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4289801&#4289801
and this link describes a better fix in case you are worried that you will inadvertently empty the trash:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1912675&#1912675
Hope this helps in time!

Exporting Ken Burns

I haven't seen this addressed in the forum (and I think I've read 32 pages so far!) When I export a slideshow where I have set the global settings to do a Ken Burns, it chops off some parts of my pictures. I've gone back and corrected the pictures by doing a manual Ken Burns on just those affected, however when I export again, different pictures are cut off. Is there any way to save the Ken Burns as they are in one particular slideshow? I hope this makes sense to someone.
I'm also having other issues, but I'll start with this one for now.
iMac4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) Intel Core Duo

OK - this might help you.
Click on the Settings button in your slideshow and select Auto Ken Burns.
"Then back in your slideshow in the selection bar at the top of the screen select all of the pictures (apple a) and click on the Ken Burns check box at the bottom of the screen to turn Ken Burns on for all of the pictures.
Then go back to the settings and turn OFF Auto Ken Burns.
Your pictures should now have a random generated Ken Burns effect but it remains the same every time you play or export - it should no longer auto regenerate the Ken Burns effect as this is now off.
You can also manually update ones that you don't like the random genreated effect of and they should now stay the same."
any ideas for the new iPhoto which has no Ken Burns box at the bottom

I want to turn off ken burns off in my entire project!

Im making a stop motion video and have over 500 photos in my project and i dont feel like clicking on each one than fit is there a faster way???/

From iMovie's menu, choose "Edit > Select ⇒ Photos". All photos in the timeline will now be highlighted.
Now follow this procedure:
On one of the highlighted photos, click on the small gear icon with the down pointing arrow
Select "Cropping, Ken Burns & Rotation" from the pop-up list
In the Viewer, in the top left corner, select Fit.
All photos will now remain still when played back in the timeline, that is, the Ken Burns effect will be removed
For future projects, after first creating a new project and before adding any photos, in iMovie's menu select "File > Project Properties", then for "Initial Photo Placement" choose "Fit In Frame". iMovie's default setting is "Ken Burns", that's why you need to change the default when first starting a project if you prefer a different setting, such as "Fit" or "Crop".
DSfilms5 did mention Project Properties in the post above. I thought I should explain this further, and also assist you with the method required to fix the photos already in the project. Changing the settings in Project Properties will not change the settings for the existing photos, only the new photos added to the project.
John

Turn off Ken Burns Effect?

Hi - does anyone know how to turn off the ken burns effect? i see the option to do so in project preferences -- but it is only applying to the first photo in the series and I'd like to shut it off for all... can anyone help?
thanks!!!
rachel

Hi Rachel,
Select (highlight with the yellow border) all the photos on which you wish to turn off Ken Burns. Now, on any of the photos click on the small gear icon and select "Cropping, Ken Burns & Rotation" - be careful not to deselect the photos, click just on the icon. In the Viewer select "Fit" (in the top left corner of the Viewer). Click "Done" (top right corner). Now all the selected photos will fit in the frame, with no motion applied to them.
The Project Properties selection (in the Menu) only applies to photos when you first add them to your project. So, it's best to set your options there when you start a new project and before adding content to the project.
John
Message was edited by: John Cogdell - added last paragraph

KEN BURNS imovie clip timing PROBLEMS!!!

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.
Thanks!

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.
Another bug: if the Ken Burns checkbox was OFF when a photo was imported, clicking on that clip does NOT correctly re-display the settings for that clip. Ken Burns doesn't correctly show the pan or zoom. If you Update the clip with a new duration, the pan and zoom of the new clip won't be correctly applied.
I don't know if any of that helps you figure out what's going on there, but hopefully so. If not, describe EXACTLY the steps that cause the problem to occur so others can test it.
Karl

Ken Burns duration???

Is there any way to have the Ken Burns effect go from start to end and then allow the clip to remain visible for an additional second or two? It seems that the clip changes to the next clip immediately after the KB effect reaches the end. Thanks in advance.

1. After setting the Ken Burns effect, copy and paste the clip and position the copy so that it follows directly after the original.
2. Click on the copy, then click on the gear icon (cogwheel) on the clip and select Cropping, Ken Burns and Rotation from the pop-up menu.
3. In the viewer you will see the Ken Burns Start and End frames. Drag the Start frame to exactly match the End frame.
4. In the Clip Inspector adjust the duration to how long you wish to hold the frame - this should now show no motion effect and match perfectly with the final frame of the preceding Ken Burns clip.
Note that you can easily reverse the Start and End positions. This allows you to add continuous motion to a clip, such that you can zoom in, then pan left or right or up and down etc. by using copies of preceding clips - explained as follows:
Working with a copy, in the lower left corner of one of the frames you will see a tiny left/right arrow icon. Click on this. The frames will now reverse, such that the Start frame becomes the End frame, and vice versa. Now move the End frame to the new position. Click Done. When viewed, you will see, for example, a seamless zoom in from (say) a wide shot to a medium shot, then a pan across to another face or object. There is no jerkiness, it all works quite smoothly.
Note that I was using iMovie '11 to check this procedure, but I think it all works in a similar way in iMovie '09. I'm not sure about the reverse method - but there is an icon in iMovie '09 that does this, I just can't recall if it was in the actual frame or elsewhere in the Viewer.
John
PS Sorry, started posting this before seeing AppleMan's post - got interrupted (baby sitting today)!
Message was edited by: John Cogdell - added PS

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.

Selecting photo then clicking "Fit" does NOT turn off the Ken Burns effect.

Trying to wean from iMovieHD. I'm having trouble mastering what seems to be more limited Ken Burns effect functionality in iMovie11. I don't seem to have the range, say, left-to-right, as I did in either iPhoto or in iMovie HD.
So, I figured for now I'd turn off the Ken Burns effect on all the stills in this project. I've tried selecting one photo, getting into the Fit/Crop/KB effect viewer, then clicking Fit, then Done. But the photo keeps the KB effect that had been applied to it.
I tried changing all photos in Preferences and that didn't change anything either.
Hopefully I'm just missing something? Thanks for any help, everybody...

Nevermind. Got it. As I'd hoped, user error.

Where did Ken Burns stills pan controls go in iMovie HD ?

I haven't used iMovie in a year or so. Just opened iHD & every still photoI drop into it gets automatically panned. I can't find where the controls are to set where the Burns effect starts and stops. Anybody care to help ? Thanks !

Klaus may not be available right now, so thought I'd jump in.
Click on the panel labelled "Show Photo Settings" just above the tabs for Clips, Themes, Media etc. See the image below:
A small pop-up window will appear. Check the box marked "Ken Burns Effect" to activate the effect, then set the start and end points, and also the required duration.
John
EDIT: Sorry, just realised I gave you instructions on how to set the Ken Burns Effect. If the box is checked, simply uncheck it to deactivate the effect.
Message was edited by: John Cogdell

Importing iphoto 09 pictures into imovie 09 with ken burns movement!

Im making a video on imovie 09 using still images i took and imported to iphoto. Then i import those iphoto pictures into imovie, BUT all the pictures have moving "ken burns" crop effects on them after i import them to imovie!!! i know how to fix it, by going to the "crop tool" and "ken burns" adjusting the start and end effect of this movement but my question is....
how do i change this setting so I dont have to tediously use the cropping ken burns tool on every clip which will probably make all the images appear shaky??????

Go to FILE/PROJECT PROPERTIES and you can set the default behavior when importing photos to the project.

Cannot transition into "Ken Burns" effect

Simple.
I have a Ken Burns zoom on a photo. I want to fade in from black onto the photo.
At the point where the fade-in ends, there is a jump in the photo instead of a smooth transition.
This must be a software glitch in this version.

Hi Mary
Don't know of the problem but I can suggest how I would solve it.
I would - before applying fade in or out - export out the Ken-Burns zoomed
photos to a new miniDV tape and then import this part again and try to apply
the Fade effect on this one.
alt. Save clips as a full quality QT (DV-stream) clip and re-import this.
It should work even if it is a rather crude way of doing it.
Yours Bengt W

How do I turn OFF the Ken Burns effect in slideshows--it defaults there no matter if selected or not.

The Ken Burns zoom and pan appears on every slide in every slide show - despite the Ken Burns box NOT ever being checked.
Any ideas ? Thanks.

Thanks, Leonie. I didn't realize that slideshows had themes - but nevermind. While searching for it, I found the settings control that I had overlooked (or had been hidden) before. It fixed the problem. Appreciate your help.
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