Ken Burns (was Re: Ripple)

[Jeff Reynolds]

David,

If you want something nice and very fast, try a ken burns slide show  
just use iphoto and dump it out as a quicktime movie. The joke with  
my video producer is how amazingly well iphoto does just guessing on  
pan and scans. its a bit creepy, kind of like those segues that  
itunes does on shuffle all the time. it takes a bit of time to do the  
pan and scans in final cut (we do them for exhibits) and i photo does  
them with three or four mouse clicks! We often give iphoto a shot  
first as its sometimes good enough if we are in a real hurry and  
doing the job as an extra. we get raves from the clients and have to  
embarrassingly admit it was not our genius... My video producer comes  
fro amazed m a large format still background so is very picky about  
how stills are used and i was when i first talked to her about what  
iphoto does and she sheepishly admitted that she had done a couple of  
slide shows for family that she didn't have the time to do herself  
and was amazed at the quality she got out.

I use it all the time at our japanese model train display and it  
always seems to get the direction the train is moving and do the pan  
in that direction and not perpendicular to it. and it usually zooms  
in and and out on the front of the train...

cheers,

Jeffrey Reynolds


On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:34 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com  
wrote:

> Along these lines - I'm doing some image experiments. First is zoom  
> - which
> is OK but not perfect - as the image magnifies a lot I need to crop  
> it so
> that it does not get too huge in memory. One of the aims is to do a  
> Ken
> Burns type effect i a slide show. The problem is getting the  
> transitions
> fast enough and yet smooth enough.