You take what most of us have experienced and enhance the process to a higher level without complicating the explanation. Another super time-worth watching video.
I'm so glad i subscribed to your channel..Your tutorials are explained so well. They have helped me tremendously. I feel more confident with each video..Some of my subscribers have stated my videos have gotten better. Before i move on to another editor (Which i doubt) i want to reach the full potential of what i can do on IMovie. Right now, my main problems with my vid's are thumbnails and clips to hit with the music beat. I'm Hoping to find a Tutorial on those subjects on your channel. But, i want to say THANK YOU. I appreciate your Video/tutorials.
Great video! Do you know if there’s a “one click” type of way to use Ken Burns? If I pretty much use the same exact zoom for video clips, is there a way to set it like that instead of having to do it manually each time? Thanks!
GREAT VIDEO! I've got a 1080 high by 3240 wide image. How do you crop the Ken Burns effect for 1080x1080 rather that letterbox, and then sweep across the image?
You can't crop to 1080x1080 (1:1) if the video project is 16:9. That doesn't make any sense since everything has to be in the 16:9 video. The video can't change ratio while being played.
Thanks Gary! Could you help with a resolution query? I'm adding a 4k video to a 1080p project and when using Ken Burns to zoom in on the 4k clip, I don't want to end up with a scene which has a lower resolution than 1080p as this would impair my final output video quality. So how can I restrict my Ken Burn zoom to 1920 x 1080 pixels on my 2304 x 1296 clip? Thank you.
In iMovie 10.1.12, Preferences, select Ken Burns. In Main Screen, select Crop tool, but there is no header "Style". It only shows Crop. No Ken Burns effect showing. What to do?
Great video!! I'm hoping you can help me... I'm stumped on Ken Burns cropping - horizontal vs vertical shape. It's making me crazy how can I switch from Horizontal photo corp to a vertical crop?
Is there a way or a different app where you can create or adjust your own Ken burns preset? I want my start and end at a certain position for all my photos instead of having to do it one by one. Somebody please help 😭
You can use copy and paste for that. Set your first photo up like you want. Then choose Edit, Copy. Then select the others and choose Edit, Paste Adjustments, Crop. There are keyboard shortcuts for both.
Thanks for your video. Is there a way to pan across a panorama image without cropping? In other words, I want to pan across the entire image from top to bottom without having to crop parts of the top or bottom. I want to make panning videos for my Etsy shop art listings that show the ENTIRE painting from left to right, not just portions of it. I'm getting the sense that this may not be possible in iMovie?
Irritatingly inconsistant. Ken Burns is nice effect to roll from one pic to next but disable it to pinch or expand size. Some pics work and some spring back to original size. No ryhme or reason I can discover. Frustrating.
I find it to be pretty rock solid as to how it works. Maybe create a sample project to just play with it for a bit and get the hang of how the interface works.
Is there a way to expand the bottom and top of the frames in Ken Burns’ setting. I have a lot of portrait pictures and I lose the height of the pic because I can’t just pull up or pull down, I don’t want to keep the ratio of the pic.
No, the ratio is the ratio. You can't have blank bars or something at the top or bottom. Use another crop option without the animation, or take the photo into an image editing app and add extra solid color areas to the sides.
Great tips and tricks for getting various effects. Any tips for using Ken Burn effectively for vertical photos? Wish there were vertical rectangles....
If you are using vertical photos in a horizontal video then you don't have as much room to move it around as you have to cover the frame. You can't have "nothing" behind the main timeline. However, if you put something else as the main timeline and then show the vertical photo in a picture-in-picture overlay instead, you can use keyframes to animate it as you like. I show this in ua-cam.com/video/esz_6A6oHkM/v-deo.html
Thank-you! My head is spinning from the many solutions you provide in the linked video. Until now, I've settled for having black margins when applying Ken Burns to a vertical photo.@@macmost
Really well done as always; I found out how to do this on my own, and find it very useful to create variety for the viewer in my videos, which are shot on fixed cameras, but this effect simulates a moving POV.
Thanks!! Love the multiple-step panning effect. So easy and effective. I also love your clear, direct explantations. So glad I found this video, and will watch more.
Hi. I’m a huge fan of your videos. Is there a way we can add other transitions and titles outside of iMovie? Been wanting to use new transitions and other effects for my vlogs.
****AAAAARRRGGGHHH**** I am NEVER going to find the answer to my question! How do you do what you're doing with the Ken Burns effect except with a MOVING VIDEO? Here's the video. I'm showing a short film of a wasp feeding on some honey on the balcony, shot with my iPad. Now, in iMovie on my Mac, I just want to zoom in on the wasp, hold that zoom, and then zoom back out without having anyone see the transitions. I suspect it has something to do with copying the clips but it's not working mentally. I can zoom in and out till there's no tomorrow, but I can't zoom in, HOLD IT and then zoom out! And I don't know how to put that in keywords so Google will show me the answer! I keep getting IPHONE/IPHONE/IPHONE . . . !!!!!!
You would split the clip. Split it twice, once where you want the zooming in to stop, and once where you want it to start zooming out. Then apply Ken Burns to the first clip to zoom in, then the last clip to Zoom out. You can then just crop the middle clip, or use Ken Burns there too but with start and end at about the same amount.
@@macmost Thanks for the reply, MacMost! Wow, a reply in one day-it's unheard of! Much appreciated. The problem is that in the last clip-the one where you have to zoom out-you have to somehow match the exact position of the zoomed-in portion that you wanted to "hold" in the second clip because once you split the second clip then the Ken Burns effect is lost in the third clip. Or is it? Does the third clip (I haven't yet tried this, but it sounds like it couldn't work) maintain the exact zoomed-in position of the middle "hold" clip so you can just do a reverse Ken Burns and then zoom out? It's that *matching the zoomed-in position* of the middle clip onto the beginning of Clip 3 that's screwing me up. But Hollywood *must* have a way to do this after the film is shot, that doesn't involve all these machinations, mustn't it?
@@kamakirinoko Yes, it will retain the KB sizes and you can reverse them. Play around and you'll see. As for Hollywood, they aren't using iMovie. They are using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and other pro apps.
@@macmost Heh, yeah, sorry about the Hollywood crack-I should know, as I was a Final Cut Pro editor for a couple of years in the mid 2000s (but I've forgotten it all now). Yes, earlier I discovered the what used to be called "Paste Attributes" command, but iMovie's equivalent. So copying one clip and just pasting the "crop" into another clip will confer whatever modifications (I haven't tried anything except "Paste Crop attributes" yet, but I'm pretty sure one can copy color/contrast attributes and paste those as well into a new clip. I tried some of the stuff and applied it to a video I was working on where I wanted to zoom in on something like I was talking about, and it works okay-sort of: ua-cam.com/video/v-JCuzApbj0/v-deo.html
This is all informative but what about prepping the images and working with a predetermined finish. Example-I want a 4K output using files from my camera that are mostly 5700px on the long side. Can I crop tighter than 4000px and still get a 4K output? Another question...if an image I have is say 3000px on the long side and I want to crop in to say 2000px using Ken Burns, this is half the size that iMovies needs to have a 4K output. Do I 'up' the size with the 3000px to say 6000px and work with that image? I think I get too particular but images prep seems important.
Recording at a higher resolution is what counts. Converting from lower to higher just to zoom in won't help at all. If you zoom in you will lose resolution, of course, but look at the result and see if it is acceptable to you and your final use.
Outstanding video. I am getting a new iMac and I am editing a project on my current iMac and I want to (somehow) transfer my project (and extensive edits) to my new iMac. How do I do that?
You'll need to move the iMovie Project file over to the new Mac. That should contain everything. But using Migration Assistant, it should take care of that and a lot more for you.
Thanks for showing this! IS there any way to place the Start/End frames using coordinates or some values entered by keyboard? I need to repeat the same position over different pics and it would be really useful to do it using some fixed numbers instead of using the cursor.
Great information! I've got a question about the Ken Burns effect. It has to do with the speed, and not exactly the speed you explained in your video, but rather the constant speed of ken burns from start to finish. I want to have the ken burns start and finish using the same speed, however, for what ever reason when using the ken burns on a single image, it has a slow start, then ramps up faster, and slows down again when it gets to the end. I don't want it to do that. I just want it to have a constant speed from start to finish, no ramp ups and downs. Do you know how to fix this? Or is that just a standard thing ken burns has that you cannot edit?
Can this effect be applied to video when using iMovie on the iPhone? I can’t find that option anywhere on the app. I see it with photos, but not video.
Yes. Select the clip in the main timeline. Then you should see either Ken Burns Disabled or Ken Burns Enabled at the bottom right corner of the preview area.
@@paulsantoro1082 So there's your problem. It is only for photos in the iPhone. I guess the thinking is that videos already have movement. But you can use Ken Burns on a video on iMovie for Mac.
Is it possible to generate the KB effect on a 5x7 portrait mode photo? Yes, it workds great for all these landscape pics...but I've got a lot of portrait pics I'd like to add the effect to. Help!! (And thanks!)
@@macmost Hi- Im trying to get a more vertical effect. Start long (not wide) and go in, or vice versa. I've watched a lot of these videos on how to use Ken Burns. All I'm seeing for KB are examples of it on horizontal pics. In iMovie, I can't get the 'start' and 'end' prompt boxes to go vertical. I really want to incorporate the effect on some pics and import into Keynote. That is, unless you have a cool way to achieve a KB effect in Keynote that I don't know about. Does this make it any clearer?
@@GuyFromGeorgia So it isn't that the KB effect needs to be vertical, but the whole video needs to be vertical? Video you make in iMovie is horizontal, usually 16:9. There are tricks to using vertical, but not for 5x7 if that is what you want. You'll need to go to a different video editor (FCP, DaVinci, Premiere, etc) if you want to produce 5x7 video.
@@macmost I want to take a 5x7 pic, in vertical format, and apply the KB effect to it. I'd like to use that file (I assume it would be a .mov file) in either a Keynote presentation or an iMovie. I've yet to find a suitable way to do it.
You take what most of us have experienced and enhance the process to a higher level without complicating the explanation. Another super time-worth watching video.
Always wondered what Ken Burns was all about! Thank you, very well explained.
I'm so glad i subscribed to your channel..Your tutorials are explained so well.
They have helped me tremendously. I feel more confident with each video..Some of my subscribers have stated my videos have gotten better.
Before i move on to another editor (Which i doubt) i want to reach the full potential of what i can do on IMovie.
Right now, my main problems with my vid's are thumbnails and clips to hit with the music beat. I'm Hoping to find a Tutorial on those subjects on your channel.
But, i want to say THANK YOU. I appreciate your Video/tutorials.
Great video! Do you know if there’s a “one click” type of way to use Ken Burns? If I pretty much use the same exact zoom for video clips, is there a way to set it like that instead of having to do it manually each time? Thanks!
There's nothing like that. It starts each time at those zoom levels.
@@macmost aww ok thanks so much for responding!
Is there any way to get ird of the speed ramp? I need a zoom with a constant speed.
GREAT VIDEO! I've got a 1080 high by 3240 wide image. How do you crop the Ken Burns effect for 1080x1080 rather that letterbox, and then sweep across the image?
You can't crop to 1080x1080 (1:1) if the video project is 16:9. That doesn't make any sense since everything has to be in the 16:9 video. The video can't change ratio while being played.
Thanks Gary! Could you help with a resolution query? I'm adding a 4k video to a 1080p project and when using Ken Burns to zoom in on the 4k clip, I don't want to end up with a scene which has a lower resolution than 1080p as this would impair my final output video quality. So how can I restrict my Ken Burn zoom to 1920 x 1080 pixels on my 2304 x 1296 clip? Thank you.
Just make sure you don't zoom in too much. You can't see any exact numbers on that, so you'll just have to eyeball it.
In iMovie 10.1.12, Preferences, select Ken Burns. In Main Screen, select Crop tool, but there is no header "Style". It only shows Crop. No Ken Burns effect showing. What to do?
Try restarting iMovie. If that doesn't work, try it with various clips to see if it is maybe a problem with the clip selected.
Love this! Do you have a vid on how to use Ken Burns on a portrait oriented photo or graphic?
The options are the same no matter what type of video you have.
Great video!! I'm hoping you can help me... I'm stumped on Ken Burns cropping - horizontal vs vertical shape. It's making me crazy how can I switch from Horizontal photo corp to a vertical crop?
Ken Burns isn't cropping, it is position and zoom. Just set the position and zoom for the start and end of the Ken Burns effect.
Is there a way or a different app where you can create or adjust your own Ken burns preset? I want my start and end at a certain position for all my photos instead of having to do it one by one. Somebody please help 😭
You can use copy and paste for that. Set your first photo up like you want. Then choose Edit, Copy. Then select the others and choose Edit, Paste Adjustments, Crop. There are keyboard shortcuts for both.
This Ken Burn only work on Mac. But we needed on iPhone or iPad instead. I only use it on video not photo.
It is on the iPhone too. support.apple.com/guide/imovie-iphone/adjust-zoom-effects-knac3eec39c6/ios
THANK YOU !!! couldn't get rid of the automatic Ken Burns effect when I dragged in a photo. Now I can !!
Learn something new every time... Thanks brother!.. ❤🙏
Thanks for your video. Is there a way to pan across a panorama image without cropping? In other words, I want to pan across the entire image from top to bottom without having to crop parts of the top or bottom. I want to make panning videos for my Etsy shop art listings that show the ENTIRE painting from left to right, not just portions of it. I'm getting the sense that this may not be possible in iMovie?
I don't know what you are going for. You can't pan and show the whole image at the same time. Some of it will have to be cropped by definition.
Irritatingly inconsistant. Ken Burns is nice effect to roll from one pic to next but disable it to pinch or expand size. Some pics work and some spring back to original size. No ryhme or reason I can discover. Frustrating.
I find it to be pretty rock solid as to how it works. Maybe create a sample project to just play with it for a bit and get the hang of how the interface works.
Is there a way to expand the bottom and top of the frames in Ken Burns’ setting. I have a lot of portrait pictures and I lose the height of the pic because I can’t just pull up or pull down, I don’t want to keep the ratio of the pic.
No, the ratio is the ratio. You can't have blank bars or something at the top or bottom. Use another crop option without the animation, or take the photo into an image editing app and add extra solid color areas to the sides.
Thanks. I need all the I movie help I can get. 👏🏾👏🏾
Thanks again Gary. I thought if I searched "Macmost Ken Burns" you'd have what I needed and you did.
You’re absolutely awesome teacher!
Thank you! 👍🏻😍🤩
can i add the same Ken burn effect to multiple photos together?
Not at the same time. But one after the other, yes.
Most useful video ever! Thank you!
Great tips and tricks for getting various effects. Any tips for using Ken Burn effectively for vertical photos? Wish there were vertical rectangles....
If you are using vertical photos in a horizontal video then you don't have as much room to move it around as you have to cover the frame. You can't have "nothing" behind the main timeline.
However, if you put something else as the main timeline and then show the vertical photo in a picture-in-picture overlay instead, you can use keyframes to animate it as you like. I show this in ua-cam.com/video/esz_6A6oHkM/v-deo.html
Thank-you! My head is spinning from the many solutions you provide in the linked video. Until now, I've settled for having black margins when applying Ken Burns to a vertical photo.@@macmost
Really well done as always; I found out how to do this on my own, and find it very useful to create variety for the viewer in my videos, which are shot on fixed cameras, but this effect simulates a moving POV.
Thank You Gary! I was wondering if you can change where that arrow is…
Not sure what you are asking here.
@@macmost I’m not even sure how to ask. 🤦🏼♀️ but I feel sure you can’t.
VERY useful - thanks Gary!
Ace tutorial, shows the variety of options very clearly and no fuss! Thanks :)
Thanks bunches
a precision editor in iMovie tutorial would be welcome to show
See ua-cam.com/video/pe-OchN5mvs/v-deo.html
Brilliant, thanks for uploading
Does this work for Imovie for windows?
There is no iMovie for Windows. It is for Mac/iPad/iPhone.
Any idea how we could do this in portrait?
Thanks!! Love the multiple-step panning effect. So easy and effective. I also love your clear, direct explantations. So glad I found this video, and will watch more.
As always, a useful and informative video. Many thanks, Gary.
Is there a way to switch the format to portrait or vertical?
ua-cam.com/video/x_I1ggMqeAM/v-deo.html
I found it VERY useful … Thank you !
A very useful video with very cool effects! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
Very helpful! Thank you!
Thanks Gary for this video, but it flew over my head😫.
I’m not familiar with iMovie 😔basics.
Try ua-cam.com/video/ktNKnAmVfUM/v-deo.html
Who the hell is Ken Burns? 😂😂😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns
Hi. I’m a huge fan of your videos. Is there a way we can add other transitions and titles outside of iMovie? Been wanting to use new transitions and other effects for my vlogs.
There are lots of things you can do. For instance: ua-cam.com/video/mAv0x06toiU/v-deo.html Search my site for "keynote iMovie" to see more.
****AAAAARRRGGGHHH**** I am NEVER going to find the answer to my question! How do you do what you're doing with the Ken Burns effect except with a MOVING VIDEO? Here's the video. I'm showing a short film of a wasp feeding on some honey on the balcony, shot with my iPad. Now, in iMovie on my Mac, I just want to zoom in on the wasp, hold that zoom, and then zoom back out without having anyone see the transitions.
I suspect it has something to do with copying the clips but it's not working mentally. I can zoom in and out till there's no tomorrow, but I can't zoom in, HOLD IT and then zoom out! And I don't know how to put that in keywords so Google will show me the answer! I keep getting IPHONE/IPHONE/IPHONE . . . !!!!!!
You would split the clip. Split it twice, once where you want the zooming in to stop, and once where you want it to start zooming out. Then apply Ken Burns to the first clip to zoom in, then the last clip to Zoom out. You can then just crop the middle clip, or use Ken Burns there too but with start and end at about the same amount.
@@macmost Thanks for the reply, MacMost! Wow, a reply in one day-it's unheard of! Much appreciated.
The problem is that in the last clip-the one where you have to zoom out-you have to somehow match the exact position of the zoomed-in portion that you wanted to "hold" in the second clip because once you split the second clip then the Ken Burns effect is lost in the third clip. Or is it?
Does the third clip (I haven't yet tried this, but it sounds like it couldn't work) maintain the exact zoomed-in position of the middle "hold" clip so you can just do a reverse Ken Burns and then zoom out?
It's that *matching the zoomed-in position* of the middle clip onto the beginning of Clip 3 that's screwing me up.
But Hollywood *must* have a way to do this after the film is shot, that doesn't involve all these machinations, mustn't it?
@@kamakirinoko Yes, it will retain the KB sizes and you can reverse them. Play around and you'll see. As for Hollywood, they aren't using iMovie. They are using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and other pro apps.
@@macmost Heh, yeah, sorry about the Hollywood crack-I should know, as I was a Final Cut Pro editor for a couple of years in the mid 2000s (but I've forgotten it all now).
Yes, earlier I discovered the what used to be called "Paste Attributes" command, but iMovie's equivalent. So copying one clip and just pasting the "crop" into another clip will confer whatever modifications (I haven't tried anything except "Paste Crop attributes" yet, but I'm pretty sure one can copy color/contrast attributes and paste those as well into a new clip.
I tried some of the stuff and applied it to a video I was working on where I wanted to zoom in on something like I was talking about, and it works okay-sort of: ua-cam.com/video/v-JCuzApbj0/v-deo.html
Can you do this for video on iPhone in imovie
No, I think it is only for still images in iMovie for iPhone.
@@macmost thanks man
Is there anyway to rotate the rectangles in Kim Burns?
No, they can't be rotated.
@@macmost thank you. Appreciate your vids
Very useful thank you
Fantastic! Thanks.
Fantastic video!
This is all informative but what about prepping the images and working with a predetermined finish. Example-I want a 4K output using files from my camera that are mostly 5700px on the long side. Can I crop tighter than 4000px and still get a 4K output? Another question...if an image I have is say 3000px on the long side and I want to crop in to say 2000px using Ken Burns, this is half the size that iMovies needs to have a 4K output. Do I 'up' the size with the 3000px to say 6000px and work with that image? I think I get too particular but images prep seems important.
That's why people are interested in shooting 8K even though monitors that display that resolution are rare.
Recording at a higher resolution is what counts. Converting from lower to higher just to zoom in won't help at all. If you zoom in you will lose resolution, of course, but look at the result and see if it is acceptable to you and your final use.
Outstanding video. I am getting a new iMac and I am editing a project on my current iMac and I want to (somehow) transfer my project (and extensive edits) to my new iMac. How do I do that?
You'll need to move the iMovie Project file over to the new Mac. That should contain everything. But using Migration Assistant, it should take care of that and a lot more for you.
@@macmost thanks. I will now watch "what to do when you get a new Mac" video... I probably should've started there. Thanks.
Thanks for showing this! IS there any way to place the Start/End frames using coordinates or some values entered by keyboard? I need to repeat the same position over different pics and it would be really useful to do it using some fixed numbers instead of using the cursor.
No, nothing like that I'm afraid. You can definitely do a lot of that sort of thing in Final Cut Pro, so it may be time to level up.
@@macmost nice. Thanks for the tip!
Great information! I've got a question about the Ken Burns effect. It has to do with the speed, and not exactly the speed you explained in your video, but rather the constant speed of ken burns from start to finish. I want to have the ken burns start and finish using the same speed, however, for what ever reason when using the ken burns on a single image, it has a slow start, then ramps up faster, and slows down again when it gets to the end. I don't want it to do that. I just want it to have a constant speed from start to finish, no ramp ups and downs. Do you know how to fix this? Or is that just a standard thing ken burns has that you cannot edit?
There's no setting to turn that off.
@@macmost Darn! Thank you for answering! I really appreciate it :)
Can this effect be applied to video when using iMovie on the iPhone? I can’t find that option anywhere on the app. I see it with photos, but not video.
Yes. Select the clip in the main timeline. Then you should see either Ken Burns Disabled or Ken Burns Enabled at the bottom right corner of the preview area.
@@macmost I don’t see it when I select a video clip. 😕 I’m using a 12 Pro Max.
@@paulsantoro1082 Is the clip in the main timeline (not an overlay)? Is the clip a photo (not a video)?
@@macmost main timeline. Video not photo.
@@paulsantoro1082 So there's your problem. It is only for photos in the iPhone. I guess the thinking is that videos already have movement. But you can use Ken Burns on a video on iMovie for Mac.
Is it possible to generate the KB effect on a 5x7 portrait mode photo? Yes, it workds great for all these landscape pics...but I've got a lot of portrait pics I'd like to add the effect to. Help!! (And thanks!)
Not sure what you mean.
@@macmost Hi- Im trying to get a more vertical effect. Start long (not wide) and go in, or vice versa. I've watched a lot of these videos on how to use Ken Burns. All I'm seeing for KB are examples of it on horizontal pics. In iMovie, I can't get the 'start' and 'end' prompt boxes to go vertical. I really want to incorporate the effect on some pics and import into Keynote. That is, unless you have a cool way to achieve a KB effect in Keynote that I don't know about. Does this make it any clearer?
@@GuyFromGeorgia So it isn't that the KB effect needs to be vertical, but the whole video needs to be vertical? Video you make in iMovie is horizontal, usually 16:9. There are tricks to using vertical, but not for 5x7 if that is what you want. You'll need to go to a different video editor (FCP, DaVinci, Premiere, etc) if you want to produce 5x7 video.
@@macmost I want to take a 5x7 pic, in vertical format, and apply the KB effect to it. I'd like to use that file (I assume it would be a .mov file) in either a Keynote presentation or an iMovie. I've yet to find a suitable way to do it.
And thanks for your consideration. I've ben pulling my hair out trying to see if this is possible.