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  • Keyframe Misery with the Ken Burns Effect

    Posted by Stuart Andrews on October 17, 2016 at 3:17 am

    I’m trying to apply the Ken Burns effect to stills.

    I can start the motion perfectly fine but when I try to apply either “Ease Out” or “Linear”, I get a Bezier curve that sends my picture all over the moon.

    It’s driving me nuts trying to figure it out. I downloaded an old version of Pan and Zoom. It sucks.

    I’ve tried everything. There’s a wacky method on here about adding and deleting keyframes….etc. I tried that. Nothing happened.

    Anyone have any solid suggestions for how to deal with this?

    My next step is checking out Apple Motion.

    Thanks.

    Stuart Andrews replied 9 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  • Stuart Andrews

    October 18, 2016 at 2:17 am

    Yes, I’m going to try that next.

    After giving up trying to get those “velocity handles” to work in Final Cut….etc, I managed to devise a workaround. I set my motion and then progressively sliced up the pics, slowing down the video in each slice – 90 %, 80 %, 70%….etc.

    Once I devised a suitable pattern with it, it was actually less time consuming than it sounds.

    You can see the results here (whenever there’s a photo insert):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSpJQKNjV4

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