Please advise on ken burns effect.

rubadub wrote on 4/26/2004, 12:29 PM
I am attempting my first try at the ken burns effect on a still image.
I have done a search on the forums but the advice given did not help me.
Here is what I have done thus far:
I have taken an image of my wife and taken her out of the background and cloned the surrounding area. At this point, I have 2 images in vegas. 1 is the background, the other is my wife alone. What I have right now is the background image showing through the outline of my wife (although it is a nice outline, it;s not what I want).
I can't figure out how to have both images show at the same time. I know I am overlooking something and/or using the wrong method to accomplish the effect. Please advise.
Also, the cutout of the wife is now as large as the original image. I wanted to keep her original size. how can I accomplish this? I am using jasc paint shop. The color surrounding my wife on the photo is blue. is this the correct color to use or should I use any color at all. As you can tell, I'm pretty lost here. :(
If you need more information to help me please let me know. I would love to get this accomplished today.

Thank you for any help you can give.

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 4/26/2004, 12:48 PM
You want the cutout of your wife to be on a trasparent (alpha channel) background so you can superimpose her.

You can resize your images with Pan/Crop.

Gary
rubadub wrote on 4/26/2004, 1:07 PM
I redid the cutout of the image. In jasc, i created a NEW selection. There is a check box for transparent which I checked and then pasted the image onto it. The background atm is a checkerboard pattern so I assume this is the transparency needed. I put that image into vegas and clicked on the compositing button. In there I have alpha selected. Now it's completely see through. :)
A step by step guide would be nice. I think my issue starts with the new image. When I place the cutout onto a NEW overlay, is that overlay supposed to be alpha or is it a certain color? When I put them into vegas, does the wifes image go on the top line and the background on the next or vice versa? Should I parent one or the other? Do I set both to alpha in compositing?
GaryKleiner wrote on 4/26/2004, 1:10 PM
If your images have alpha channel, you don't need to be using compositing modes. Where there is transparency, the track(s) further down will show through.

Gary
BillyBoy wrote on 4/26/2004, 1:31 PM
Put the transparancy on a track ABOVE the main track. Do not mess with any parent/child track settings not needed. See my tutorial #5 on how to layer still images.
FuTz wrote on 4/26/2004, 3:51 PM
Maybe have a look at this article. It was made using AfterEffects but you can easily figure out how to "translate" it into Vegas using Pan/Crop and Masking...

http://www.ifckc.com/how_to/CreatingMultiplaneAnimationFromPhotographs.pdf
starixiom wrote on 4/26/2004, 4:23 PM
Who Is Ken Burns??
Spot|DSE wrote on 4/26/2004, 4:33 PM
Ken Burns is the more famous of the 2 Burns brothers, Ric and Ken. They are well known for "The Civil War" together, and Ken went on from there to do Baseball, The West, Jazz, Lewis and Clark, and many other documentaries. Together, they made famous the art of using a tracking camera over stills and paintings to give life to static objects. Ric perfected it, but Ken had the better PR person.
Ric recently won a couple of Emmy's for the New York documentary, in addition to The Way West, Vernon Johns Story, Last Queen, and other PBS docs that won Emmy's for him.
http://www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/KB.html
Redio wrote on 4/26/2004, 4:46 PM
If I 'm right, then "Ken Burns effekt" are videos made from stils with a lot of panning, crobbing and zooming.

You can take a look at Mutttley's Valentine Video
and get some inspiration.

Rune
starixiom wrote on 4/26/2004, 5:21 PM
Thanks for the info.
rdolishny wrote on 4/26/2004, 5:54 PM
Ken Burns Effect: Simply zooming in and/or rotating an image.
Kid Stays In the Picture Effect: what you are describing.

- R
FuTz wrote on 4/27/2004, 6:25 AM
Giving a "3D feeling" with 2D pics...

Again, look at the link..!
rubadub wrote on 4/27/2004, 8:02 AM
Thanks all for the insight. It has been most helpful and appreciated.
Jsteehl threw me an email that had the information on what I was doing wrong (basically everything).
My main problem was in paint shop pro. I was not saving the pictures properly. Thanks to a handy step by step from Jsteehl, that issue has been resolved and I can report I have my first cool looking 'the kids stay in the picture' type still.
Thanks all! And especially Jsteehl.