Ken Burns Effect in Photo Montage...???

doxology wrote on 9/3/2011, 7:40 PM

hello...

my family discovered some rare photos...which they want me to work up into a dynamic photo montage; & I was wondering...

...I know we have great transition effects between still photos...

but is there any way to cause those still images to zoom slightly in & out in different directions or move subtlely from side to side, while they are being displayed...???

would really like to accomplish this, since these are images of a historical nature.

thanx,

dox
SONY Vegas Movie Studio 8

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 9/3/2011, 8:01 PM

Of course, using Event Pan/Crop. Search "Ken Burns" on these forums or any site carrying Sony tutorials and you will find literally hundreds of creative ideas.

Bob Decker wrote on 9/3/2011, 11:04 PM

Here's one good tutorial on how to do this:

Jack S wrote on 9/4/2011, 10:49 AM

This is very simple to do.
Click Insert/Slideshow. In the Slideshow Creator dialog box click the Settings tab.
In the Effects section click the Effect drop arrow and select Fades with Pan and Zoom. Set the time period for each photo in the Duration section. Now click the Pictures tab and click Add Pictures.
When the slideshow has been placed on the timeline you can edit it if necessary, i.e. change the transitions for something else, modify individual photo pan and zoom parameters, etc.
Once you have completed one you'll be surprised how easy and effective it is.
I place a photo gallery at the end of each of my video projects and I always use the Ken Burns effect now.

ericlast wrote on 9/5/2011, 2:36 PM

Jack...like you, I often put a photo montage at the end of projects, but never knew it could be done this way. You just saved me at least an hour of work! Thanks!

Jack S wrote on 9/6/2011, 9:54 AM

You're welcome Eric. Glad to be of service.

doxology wrote on 9/26/2011, 9:56 PM

hey...!!!...

forgot to come back & thank everyone...very sorry.

THANX,

dox

Birk Binnard wrote on 9/27/2011, 4:47 PM

The pan/zoom does of course pan and zoom, but it can also rotate. I think many people forget about this. It can be a very useful feature in certain circumstances:

I did a video walk-through of an old UK cathedral. These cathedrals are long and narrow which makes them hard to photograph. So I thought a walk-through might be a good approach. At the end of the video I included some pictures of the grave markers on the floor of the cathedral; many were from the 1600's.

For my last shot I made a fairly large panorama taken from the cathedral's center aisle. In this position the grave markers on the aisle floor were upside down but I wanted to make the shot facing the alter so I had no choice.

How to make a transition from the individual grave markers (right-side up) to the final panorama? Of course I could have used a fade, but instead I used pan/zoom to zoom in on the closest marker along with a 180 degree rotation to turn it right-side up. Then I used keyframes to slowly rotate the image to proper orientation and mooz (opposite of zoom) out to show the whole panorama.

The final sequence takes about 40 seconds and does not look nearly as hokey as it sounds.