Zoom and Editing in I-photo 09

Hi
Im new to Mac and i-photo and struggling to work out how to zoom into a picture in edit mode and then save the new, zoomed in, picture. Can it be done?
Thanks in advance
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You'll need to use the crop feature to crop that smaller portion of the photo the you see in the enlarged view. But you'll have to do it in the normal view. So it won't be exact.

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Hi all,
I'd like to zoom and pan on a photo with Ken Burns and then stop at the "end" -cropping and hold the image there on my project for a few seconds. Is this possible?

I found a new solution.
I select the ready "Ken Burnsed" photoclip and ctrl-click and choose copy, and then paste the exactly same kind of clip right behind the original. Then i go to the 'cropping, ken burns and rotation'- window, make shure that the start box is on the same crop as the ending of the original clip ( you can switch between start and end crops from the arrow thingy in the corner of the box) , and click crop. There I have the righty cropped stillframe right behind of the original.
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Acceptable File Size and Resolution for Still Photos in Keyframe Motion

Hello Hello
I know that FCE HD (as other Video Editors), will automatically fit a still photo's size to it's default capability of 720 x 480 Correct?
Well, in regard to making the best possible ZOOMS, and Pans from Still Photos, is it neccessary to re-size all your photos (from an external editor like photoshop), to a specfic size?
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And I noticed that when I inserted larger JPG still sizes (like about a meg), on the FCE timline, and when applying Panning, or Zooms, some of the rendered images with motion didn't pan or zoom smoothly.
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Thank you guys
"basically, you should try to make your images large enough so they never have to be scaled beyond 100% in the motion tab in fcp."
Actually as I mentioned some of these file sizes are very large. About 800-900 KB's - and what as a result, what I've noticed is that I actually had to DECREASE the viewing area in both the Browser Window, and the Canvas Winbow just to be able to see the whole image.
Ok - so the 72 DPI is not as important as the dimensions of the photo. But as I said I have soooooo many of these that it would take me forever to manually re-size them all not to mention the fact that re-sizing some of them (odd shapes),would throw the images out of balance.
So again I ask - if there is NO motion applied to the photo, file sizes of about 200 to 350 KB's appear just beautifully ....
BUT
If I need to PAN or ZOOM, is it ok to laod a 1 MEG sized JPG onto the timeline and start working with Keyframe?????
In fact in some cases I'm actually using these larger file JPS's (1 meg or more), so that they TOTALLLY fit the canvas window (cropping them by enlargment)
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Trishfromaz wrote:
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I have had a very difficult time inserting photos into my iMovie project.
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Second, there appears to be no elegant way to move pictures around once they have the Ken Burns effect applied to them. If I need to adjust the length of the clip I get numerous error messages about clip lengths not being correct.
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it seems that sometimes when I click on a
photo I've imported on to the timeline without the
Ken Burns effect the Photo Settings window will not
appear when the photo is selected.
Yes, the Photo Settings window seems a bit erratic. It's probably not, actually. Instead of being a standard button, the button should be a checkbox button where we tell iMovie we want it the Photo Settings window to open when photos are selected. Its behavior is consistent with a checkbox button, but since it's a standard button, it appears flakey and its behavior erratic.
Here's the confusing part: When you've been working on a photo with the Photo Settings window open, then click on a video clip -- a clip that's NOT a photo -- the Photo Settings window goes away, as it should. If you later click on an imported photo, or click on a photo in the Photos pane, the Photo Settings window re-appears all on its own.
If, however, the Photo Settings window was NOT open when you clicked on the video clip, the Photo Settings window does NOT re-open later when you click on an imported photo or a photo in the Photos pan.
That behavior appears erratic, for sometimes the Photo Settings window opens when you click on a photo and sometimes it doesn't. It all depends on what you did while editing the PREVIOUS photo/photo clip, but that's not obvious.
If the button were a checkbox, it would simply tell iMovie to open the Photo Settings window as we work on photos or not, just like any other preference. Then the window behavior would make sense.
To add to the confusion, the name of the standard button changes as it should, but offers to "Show Photo Settings" when a VIDEO clip is selected. Nothing happens when you press the button, of course, for a video clip has no photo settings. So once again, the button doesn't appear to function correctly. But it were a checkbox that toggled on/off, we wouldn't expect it to open the Photo Settings window while a video clip is selected.
At the very least, the button should be disabled when a video clip is selected, but it's not.
So the best I can tell, the Photo Settings window opens and closes as it should, but it appears erratic because the user interface is wrong.
Oh, there is one other bug. If the Themes Drop Zone window is open when you click on the "Show Photo Settings" button, nothing happens. The Photo Settings window fails to open.
And one more. The Photo Settings window "sticks" to the project window. If the project window is low on the screen and you place the Photo Settings window above the project window, then close the Photo Settings window and drag the project window up, the Photo Settings window is re-opened off screen. It opens but it doesn't appear to, for you can't see it.
There appears to be no elegant way to move
pictures around once they have the Ken Burns effect
applied to them.
The best I can tell, dragging imported photo works exactly like dragging video clips. I've always found dragging clips a bit clumsy with the timeline in Timeline viewer mode instead of Clip viewer, so maybe that's the problem for you. The trick is to drag the thumbnail above or below the timeline before dragging it left or right.
Except for that, you should be able to simply drag the thumbnail to where you want it in the timeline and iMovie HD will slide clips over to accept it. (Sometimes it's necessary to wiggle the mouse a bit so iMovie HD figures out you want it to scroll the timeline or slide stuff over.)
When dragging a long distance across the timeline, it's sometimes easier to first drag the clip to the Clips pane, scroll the timeline to the destination area, then drag the clip down into the timeline.
If I need to adjust the length of
the clip I get numerous error messages about clip
lengths not being correct.
Hmmm. More specifics please. How exactly are you adjusting the length of the clip? Exactly what error message?
Are you typing a very short time into the textbox of the duration slider of Photo Settings? Yes, that's got a bug that complains when you go less 1 second. The workaround is to drag the slider. (The textbox has been buggy in every version of iMovie. It's simpler to just not use it.)
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