Zooming over series of still frames

Okay, so I have a bunch of still frames in my timeline, lined up sequentially, all lasting around 4 frames each. So they're moving pretty fast. However, I want to slowly zoom in on ALL of the still frames AS A WHOLE, if that makes any sense.
I don't want to zoom in on each individual still frame, but start on the very first still and slowly push in on all of the frames down to the last picture. (Simply, the zoom is slowly pushing in, while the pictures whiz by.)
I selected all of the stills and tried to use the Motion and Keyframes like I would an ordinary still frame, but apparently it doesn't work when you group them together.
Thanks in advance.

Hi:
Create a new sequence and nest (drag and drop) the original into this new one. Now you can apply the zoom effect to the whole sequence as a unit.
You can learn more about nesting with this tutorial: Basics of Nesting in FCP.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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There used to be an export (or share?) menu item that allowed an imovie to be saved as an image sequence. ie: a series of still frames would be saved in jpeg or other picture formats. Can't find this in imovie 10.0.3?

Hi ducatti71
i have the same problem.
Can you please explain your exact workflow for me, so that i can reproduce it? Thank you.

Pan and zoom over multiple still pictures

Is there a way to apply general pan and zoom over multiple still pictures simultaneously? I seem to remember doing this in PE10, but don't recall the steps.

Chuck700
If you are in Premiere Elements 10 Windows and not using the program's Pan and Zoom Tool, the suggestion is to apply a pan and zoom effect to the one photo.
Then, select that photo, Edit Menu/Copy. Then, select all the photos that you want to have the same pan and zoom effect.
Now Edit Menu/Paste Attributes.
There is no "Apply Pan & Zoom to all Slides" for this as in the Photoshop Elements Elements Organizer Elements Slideshow Editor preferences.
I suppose you could create your slideshow in Premiere Elements 10's Elements Organizer Create/Slideshow so that you
could use this "Apply Pan & Zoom to all Slides" for the pans and zooms, and then use theElements Organizer Slideshow Editor's Output option "Edit with Premiere Elements Editor" to get the slideshow into the Premiere Elements workspace.
If you are using Premiere Elements 10 or 11's Pan and Zoom Tool, then please check out my blog post on the topic of applying the same pan and zoom effect to more than one photo.
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Can I create a still frame with compressor?

i have over 1000 clips and I need a still frame of each clip.
Is there a way like a droplet in Compressor?
I am using Compressor 3.5.
If not in compressor, any other oprion? I need to retain the original filename as well.
Thank you.

Use Quicktime Pro 7...

Exporting still frames

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help cs4 pro
Trying to export still frames from time line.
Go to file
export-- media
Bit map
format bit map
reset ntsc bit map
output name: C;\still\house
save
Adobe Media Encoder comes up
click start queue
hangs
no file created.
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You're welcome.
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Project in Imovie 9 Only plays back still frames, wont play video

Project in Imovie 9 Only plays back still frames
I can see all the video clips but screen just goes black while going over the video. The video is still in the computer and has not been moved around.
Also if i play the imported video on the "Event" board it plays over it with no information coming back to the computer. Like if the files were offline.
any help?
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Hi
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
Macintosh HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named.
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
and find com.apple.iApps.plist - trash this too
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file/s out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
• Turn off Mac and disconnect Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes - will at least re-set FW-port
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09)
• Problems in iPhoto Library can affect iMovie to crash on start-up. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• iMovie updated ?
• QuickTime updated ?
• Mac OS version ?
• Program miss-match. iMovie 4 - will not work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’08 v. 7.1.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’09 v. 8.0.6, Mac OS X.5.8 AND QuickTime 7.6.4 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Lennart Thelander
I run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac.
Yours Bengt W

Creating a quiz in iMovie: Showing multiple still frames simultaneously

I am trying to create a short quiz in iMovie which involves choosing one of 4 video clips. After each of the clips has been played I want to show 4 still frames (one from each clip) together on screen. This will allow participants to see all their options at once, insted of relying on memory. I have the frames saved on my hard drive but cannot figure out how to create a four window display. Is there any way of doing this on iMovie HD? Or is it possible to make such a collage in iPhoto and then import it?
Any help would be much appreciated

Because you've suggested "..doing this on iMovie HD? Or is it possible to make such a collage in iPhoto and then import it?.." here's a simple way to do it with those programs ..and with QuickTime!
With iPhoto, just import your stills into iPhoto, then use the bottom-right 'magnify' slider to give yourself a 'four-up' view (..four photos onscreen together). Then hold down Shift and the Apple key and jab the '4' key to give you a set of cross-hairs, and hold down your mouse/trackpad button while you drag the cross-hairs over the four pics, then release the mouse button/trackpad.
That'll give you a .pdf file (..or .png file..) which you can view using Preview:
Optionally Export or Save As a .jpg and import it into iMovie - or just import it in its default format - where it'll appear as a 5-second still which you can add onto the end of your four clips.
Doing a similar thing with QuickTime, open individual QuickTime players, each with one of your chosen clips in. Arrange them into a rough 4x3 shape, and take a snapshot of the four together, using - as before - ShiftApple4 and drag the cross-hairs to cover all four:
If 'Ken Burns' is on, by default, in iMovie, any extra black edges will be trimmed off when you import the still which you created with ShiftApple4 ..or, if you turn OFF the Ken Burns effect before importing, any black edges will remain, so that you get the most of your four images. [..You'll get black edges if your overall composite of the four pics is not exactly the 4x3 ratio which iMovie normally expects..]
When you import into iMovie, your '4-up' pics should look like this:
For larger images, click on 'Start Slideshow' on this homepage..
Oh; and welcome to iMovie Discussions!

Merging still frames

I'm using iMovie '08, and I'm trying to see if it's possible to merge still frames without exporting the clips as a movie and importing them in again (I don't want to lose the quality). I mainly want to do this so I could use transitions and titles over a span of still frames (if that makes any sense).

Sorry I don't understand what you are trying to do, it may well be but if others don't you may well not get an answer without further information.

Creating Motion Sequence From Still Frame

I have a still frame that I want to animate using FCE, but I can't figure out how to do it. The frame is a Photoshop file of a starburst with a transparent background. Over the course of 10 seconds, I would like to slowly shrink and rotate image so it can move into position over another still frame creating the final image. How do I do this? Thanks.

See if this helps
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Hello all.
I have a calibrated NTSC That i purchased for accurate monitoring of my projects.
I thought I tested on a HD project, but for some reason, now that I'm working on a major project it's not working properly.
When I'm editing, it will display still frames but not video. Before anyone suggests it, i have triple checked that the External monitor setting in the view menu is on All Frames.
Any suggestions?
-aj

But it won't for HD. For HD you need an HD capture card and HD monitor.
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How do I create a series of text frames using values from Excel list?

First of all, this is the very first script I'm attempting to write from scratch. I'm completely green at scripting, and I've picked up a few snippets from Adobe's ID scripting guide, but nothing has really stuck yet relating to this particular objective.
My supervisor keeps a master list of ad spaces, with the name of the account, how wide the space is, and how tall the space is, all in an Excel sheet. These spaces can number in the hundreds, and I am stuck manually drawing one rectangle for every space, which takes a very long time.
I'd like to create/have help creating a script that will take these values and "automagically" draw these spaces in the form of text frames, with the width (in columns) and the height (in inches) defined by the values in the master list, as well as the name of each account appearing in the subsequent text frames.
The script doesn't necessarily need to be able to pull the values straight from the Excel sheet; I can transfer the values to a support text file if needed, or directly into the script, changing it as I need it. A big thing (if it is not able to pull right from an Excel sheet) is that the number of spaces changes weekly, and so do the accounts, and the width and the height. Accordingly, it would be ideal if the values from the sheet could be changed easily, so as to create a new set of spaces as needed.
Positioning for each space is not crucial, only height and width. If they all appear on top of each other on the same page, that will be a result for me. The main idea is to not have to draw them all manually, one by one.
To me, this sounds like a tall order, but hopefully some experienced scripters out there can assist me, as I wish to become experienced as well.
So, the TL;DR version:
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- Text frames must have account name as contents (from account names in Excel sheet).
- Accounts, width and height change every week in the Excel sheet, so must be relatively easy to exchange all of the values.
- The width values are on the Excel sheet as columns. It would be ideal if the script could convert those numbers into multiples of columns as needed.
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Sound like the perfect thing for InDesign Scripting.
I would copy the Excel contents into a text file, to get a format that is easily read from InDesign, and there will automatically be a TAB for each "cell" just using copy/paste.
Here is a piece of code, that you perhaps could go on with (adding variable to change pages and location on page, and other stuff).
The readFileLineByLine function, can be easily re-used with any function using "callback". You simply supply the function to it, that you want to be executed for every line of text that is read:
const COLUMN_WIDTH = 2; // Define the column width in inch
var pageIndex;
var textFramesExported; // not implemented.
// Add a new dokument. Set myDoc to app.activeDocument to use
// the current document instead of creating a new one.
var myDoc = app.documents.add();
// The doSomethingWithTextRow function is called upon for every line of text read.
readFileLineByLine('c:\\test.txt', doSomethingWithTextRow);
function doSomethingWithTextRow(row){
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    // excel file into a text document.
    var cells = row.split('\t');
    var companyName = cells[0]; // The Company name in the first slot of the array
    var width = COLUMN_WIDTH * cells[1];
    var height = cells[2];
    // Create a new text frame for every row handled
    if (pageIndex==undefined) pageIndex = 0; // Count up when you have exported a number of texts, I leave this for you to do.
    var newTextFrame = myDoc.pages[pageIndex].textFrames.add();
    newTextFrame.contents = companyName;
    // The text frame is created in the top left corner.
    newTextFrame.geometricBounds = [0, 0, height + ' in', width + ' in']; // Top, Left, Bottom, Right
    // You might want to move the textframes to other positions, keeping track of how many you put out per page.
    newTextFrame.move( [10, 10] );
function readFileLineByLine(path, callbackFn){
    var myFileIn = new File(path);
    if (File.fs == 'Windows'){
        // This was probably added to recognize UTF-8 (even without its start marker?)
        myFileIn.encoding = 'UTF-8';
    myFileIn.open('r');
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        if (!myFileIn.exists){
            throw('Missing file: ' + myFileIn.fsName)
        var ln = '';
        while(!myFileIn.eof){
            // Read the lines from the file, until an empty line is found [now as a remark].
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            // if(ln !='' && ln!='\n'){
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               callbackFn(ln);
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        alert(e);
        gCancel = true;
    finally{
        myFileIn.close();
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Any way to capture a still frame as an image in Imovie HD? "Create Still Frame" just gives me short MOV files

I'm trying to export a still from a project I'm working on so I can add some things to it in photoshop before importing it back in to the imovie project.
It's from the end of a clip I have. I know I could just use grab and take a screen capture but the quality would be awful.
Imovie HD has this feature, "Create Still Frame" and when I google this problem all the answers tell me to use that.
HOWEVER: When I do use Create Still Frame, instead of giving me a JPG I can use or another image format, it creates a short 5 second .mov clip of the still. If I wanted it in movie format I'd just use the original clip, what I need is an image format!
There doesn't seem to be an option anywhere to change what type of still frame format it uses. There must be a way to do this however, all the answers I've found say it should be JPG and I should be able to locate it then in the project package - what am I doing wrong?

The shortest way to accomplish this is to download a copy of MPEG Streamclip as relayed by longtime iMovie Discussion Group participant AppleMan1958
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15808352#15808352
First, get an app called MPEG Streamclip, which is free. (google MPEG Streamclip from Squared 5)
Open MPEG Streamclip.
In iMovie, select the clip you need. Then, right-click/Reveal in Finder.
Drag this clip into MPEG Streamclip
In MPEG Streamclip, move the playhead to the frame you want.
In MPEG Streamclip, click FILE/EXPORT FRAME.
Choose JPEG, TIFF, or PNG and give it a name.

Problem with rendering still frame capture in FCP7

I'm a hack, so let's keep that in mind as I ask this question....but I *did* try to look through the forum for a similar issue before I created this post.
My situation: I am pulling some HD video from a Canon Vixia into FCP and basically just piecing it together with some minor editing to match music beats, etc. for some local sports leagues. Generally I find no issues with FCP, although I've only been dabbling with it for a few months.
My problem: My latest creation here: http://anothermotherproductions.smugmug.com/Movies/2011-Lacrosse-sample-movie/17 693649_L5rr8X does something annoying. I pulled a still frame from the video clip to let it hang there for a few seconds. See the 1:01 mark. The still frame looks clear in FCP, but when exported (and I've tried a few different formats, like h.264, pro-res, and "sharing" it for iPod) the image is ugly - looks like a motion blur from an old TV or something.
I've checked that the last frame of the video clip is the frame BEFORE the still frame, so walking step by step through the sequence reveals a normal sequence of motion, with the final frame "hanging" there for a while because its the still frame.
Make sense?
Anyone have constructive input?
Thanks.

Thank you so much - that helped tremendously. Image looks great now, AND I learned something.

How to create and export a still frame from a movie in iMovie 09

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Are you working in iMovie and realize that certain frames in the movie would be perfect as photographs? Here is how to extract them...
*To get a still frame from an Event*, right-click on the frame and select "Add Still Frame to Project". The still will be added to the end of the current project. Right click on the still frame in the project and select "Reveal in Finder". You will see a jpeg file that is highlighted. Drag this jpeg file in the finder to the iPhoto icon on your dock.
*If you want a still from a project*, rather than an event, the process is similar, except you right-click on the frame and select "Add Freeze Frame", and it adds the freeze frame at the end of the clip rather than at the end of the project. Right-click/reveal in Finder, drag JPEG to iPhoto icon in dock.
*If you are not using iPhoto*, and just want to save to your desktop, click Reveal in Finder as above, then COPY, then PASTE to desktop.
Hint: If you do not want to clutter up your iMovie Project with stills at the end that you would have to go back and delete, then create a separate iMovie Project just for your stills, and follow the instructions for capturing stills from an Event.
Note: If you do not have a right mouse button, then control-click will work instead of right-click.
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First, click iMovie/About and see which version you have.
Versoon 9.0.2 would be iMovie 11.
Follow the instructions [in this post|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13065602#13065602]
If you have Version 8.0.6, that is iMovie 09 and you should see the Reveal In Finder option.

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