I’ll show you one more example below, which has more zooming and less panning.

Then, I moved the end box to center on her face and shrunk its size so that the clip would end with just her head visible. So, what I did in my example above was move the start box to focus on the actress’s hands and changed its size so that just her hands will fill the screen when my clip starts playing. Third, you can move an (activated) box by clicking anywhere inside it and moving your mouse or trackpad to where you want it to go.įourth, you can change the size of a box by grabbing one of its corner handles (again, where the red arrow is pointing in the screenshot above) and dragging it towards or away from the center of the box. Second, you can switch between having the start box and end box be the active box by pressing the squiggly arrow icon, highlighted by the blue arrow in the screenshot above. Now, I have done a lot of moving and resizing of the boxes between the first screenshot that showed the default position of the white boxes and the one above, so let me backup and explain how you move and resize the boxes.įirst, you can only adjust the box that is activated – and the activated box is the one with the large white corner handles, shown by the red arrow in the screenshot above. If I arrange the boxes like in the screenshot below, that is exactly what will happen: And, if it is not too obvious, the box labeled End will be what is seen in your movie when the clip ends.įor example, the way the boxes are placed by default (and shown in the screenshot above) will result in your movie clip starting with the entire image being shown, then slowly zooming in to a somewhat closer view of the Famous Actress.īut let’s say I wanted the clip to start with a closeup of her hands, and then move and slightly zoom in on her face. The box labeled Start (see the green arrows in the screenshot above) determines what will be seen in your movie when your clip starts. When you do this, the white boxes seen in the screenshot above appear on your image. Step 3: Click on Ken Burns, where the red arrow is pointing in the screenshot below. When you’ve done this, a new row of cropping tools appears between the image and the cropping icon you just clicked on, as can be seen in the screenshot in Step 3, below. Step 2: Click on the cropping icon (where the red arrow is pointing in the screenshot below) at the top of the Viewer window, in the upper right corner of iMovie.

Step 1: Select the clip you want to apply the zoom effect to. The way you do get this motion in iMovie is through what Apple calls the Ken Burns effect (I’ll explain later where this name comes from) and can be done in four easy steps.

The camera isn’t moving, and the action isn’t moving, but you are zooming into one part of the scene. Zooming in or out of a video clip in iMovie is a lot like changing the zoom on your iPhone. So, Who Was Ken Burns and Why Does he Have His Own Effect?.Changing the Speed of Your Zoom, if Needed.So if you crop the photo to the horizontal 16:9 (or anything else) rather than the vertical 9:16 you can then apply the Ken Burns effect to it using the timeline crop tool. Then click the blue reset button to the right to apply your crop. You can drag the edges and corners of the rectangle by the little handles that you see, into any aspect ratio that you want. Click on the box to get an adjustment rectangle of the photo in the preview screen. A little box with the word 'Crop' in it will appear to the left of the preview screen. Select the photo that you want in the media browser, and then click on the crop tool as you would normally do. That will reveal in the media browser all the clips that are in your project. First you click on your movie's title under the Project Media heading at the top left of the sidebar. However, you can crop to any aspect ratio that you want if you crop your photo in the media browser to the left of the preview screen. In other words, the start and end rectangles will always be the same 16:9 configuration no matter what size you make them. When you crop in the timeline you are limited to cropping in the 16:9 aspect ratio of the iMovie screen.

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