The "Ken Burns" effect

[sb]

(that's DV Guy Philip - one L - he's sensitive about it!)

When you mention automatically compensating for the non square pixels, do
you mean in iMovie/iPhoto?

FCP handles this as well, albeit in a different manner.

And, the link to the Ken Stone website is for an old article that is
incorrect. Ken Stone has not updated the information.

Read this article for more accurate information.

<http://www.fcpbook.com>

click on the link for Importing Photoshop and go to page four for the
information on images larger than 72dpi.



 sb



On 1/23/03 11:55 AM, "Danny Grizzle" <danny at mogulhost.com> wrote:

> On 1/23/03 1:31 PM, "sb" <videovideo at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> no, Final Cut Pro doesn't have the "Ken Burns Effect", which is simply a
>> template of a simple animation.
>> 
>> Instead, you would have to spend about 3 minutes creating the animation
>> yourself. But, once you created the first one, you can save it and then
>> apply it again and again, and have the "KathyMac Effect"
> 
> I expect the iPhoto/iMovie link to be slightly more sophisticated than this,
> to automatically compensate for non-square pixels in DV, and hopefully to
> transparently cope with resolution downsampling. No big deal for somebody
> who already owns Photoshop and fully understands digital imaging... but
> really, that is a tall order for the average new Mac owner/iMovie user.
> 
> BTW - on this subject, someone (I think DVGuy Phillip) once recommended that
> for maximum quality, the still image should not only be processed in Adobe
> After Effects, but also using ReelSmart Twixtor.
>