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Best way to re-size still photos?
Hi,
I’m re-sizing stills in a documentary. What’s the best way to do this? Would you use an Adjustment Layer and keyframe the re-size? Or make a copy of the original and keyframe that?
I have a whole bunch of these to do. :\
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You again! Just kidding… 🙂
If you’re referring to the infamous Ken Burns effect, then…
Just a thought but you could do the “Effect -> Distort -> Transform” thing as described in your previous question (you wouldn’t necessarily have to do this to an adjustment layer… in fact if I were doing it, I wouldn’t)… Go to the beginning of the timeline, keyframe the scale (again using the Transform EFFECT, not the scale command), go down a predetermined length of time, say a second or two, set another keyframe. Then SAVE YOUR EFFECT SETTINGS AS AN ANIMATION PRESET. Finally select the rest of the layers that should have these same settings and apply your presaved animation preset to those.
As I’m thinking about this… if you don’t want every single image to always have the same settings… (always zooming in, how boring), you could have a couple of animation presets.. one that zooms in, one that zooms out, one that pans left, one that pans right, etc. You’d have to create each of these one time and save them one time of course (giving it an easy name to remember like “kbZOOM” or something). But that’s what I’d do.
Hope this helps.
rjf
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Hey, I’m taking over the forum with my n00bness. 🙂
Thanks for the ideas. By the way, I’m using an Adjustment Layer so I can click it off and show people the original.
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