PowerDirector - Apply a Ken Burns style of pan and zoom to a video clip
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Ken Burns popularized the editing technique of pan and zoom across still images--mostly historical photographs. Can you apply that same technique with a video? You can in PowerDirector. This works best if the film is shot using a tripod without a lot of pan and zoom in the original footage, as you will see in this example.
Absolutely superb video! Thank you so very much for posting it! Love your very easy and comprehensive instructions!
I'm very pleased that my teaching style works for you. Thanks for letting me know! Hope you enjoy all that is on this channel. --Jim
Just starting use this technique. You explanation was very easy to understand. Thank you!
I'm very pleased this made sense to you. Thanks for checking this out. --Jim
Nice job as always keep up the good work 👍
I'll keep trying. Thanks! --Jim
Very simple and quick. Excellent way of showing how to perform this technique. Thanks
I have PD14 but I know I can still use your method.
Yes you can. This is one case where the version doesn't matter much. --Jim
Good teaching there again Jim
Thanks William! --Jim
Very cool. I now have idea to convert 4K video to HD 1080p without losing detail and always staying centered on topic. 👍
Delighted this gave you some fresh ideas to try. --Jim
Lesson leaned, thank you.
Thanks, Paul. --Jim
Yes, I have this pan/Zoom effect in PD14 Ultra. It might be labelled different but does the same thing, and I could, if I want to, apply it to videos or stills. P.S. Geez that "Ken" really "Burns" me up! LOL
That's creative humor. --Jim
@@SharperTurtle Thought you'd like it! Cheers, Jim!
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You could also do the same thing in the PiP Designer.
Craig,
Very true. Nice to have multiple options. --Jim
Thanks - not used this way of doing the KB effect. Best results with 4K footage. David
Right. The results here are fuzzy due to the original video resolution. --Jim
Thanks.
When you use keyframes like this whether for still images or video, the virtual camera movements always look unconvincing as they start instantaneously, then move linearly, then stop abruptly.
Is there a technique to make the start and stops of that movement more gradual, more like the acceleration / deceleration of a real camera ?
Yes, there is. "Ease In" and "Ease Out".
@@CraigRodmellMusic Thanks Craig. Appreciate your quick answer, plus not being judgmental of dummies :-)
@@ivanblakely903 My pleasure!
How do you select a section on the clip to do the Crop/Zoom/Pan? My clip is 15 minutes and it's I can't apply keyframes exactly where I want. There is no way to expand the time line in the tool
I just did a test with an 18 minute clip and was able to put keyframes in anywhere in the clip. So I'm guessing I'm missing something in your question. Does there seem to be a limit as to where or how many keyframes you can place on the slider? --Jim
@@SharperTurtle Suppose I put a keyframe and I want to put a second one 10 frames later. I can't expend the time line on the video so it keeps snapping to the first keyframe. Sorry if my explanation is not clear.
Now I see what you have in mind. You want to be more precise in the position of your keyframes and you can't magnify the tool to do that.
The only way I know to do that is to not use the tool demonstrated here, but to use the PiP Designer. You can add position and scale keyframes that are very close together, but it's a challenging process. You enlarge to make it look like you are doing a close up and you shrink to make it look like the camera is backing away.
@@SharperTurtle Thank you!
You bet! --Jim
I really want to know if one can draw masks. Not to use the the stock shapes.
Yes you can with some limitations. I will see what tutorials I have made for this or need to make. I'll get back to you. --Jim
@@SharperTurtle Thanks - Masks kind of confuse me...
I will probably have a new tutorial on masks next week. Stay tuned. --Jim
@@SharperTurtle Thanks 😀