Premiere Elements 7 Pan & Zoom like Ken Burns

[truthseeker]

How do I Pan & Zoom like Ken Burns?
And please give me painfully detailed instructions

[ATR]

Pans and Zooms (Ken Burns) is nothing more than keyframing the motion and position properties of your image. Keyframing is the best way to go.

You can also use Effects/Video Effects/Presets/Horizontal and Vertical Pans or Zooms. Here you can achieve a Pan or Zoom per image by applying one of these effects to your image on the Timeline.

Here is a classic article on keyframing to get you warmed up for the real thing in your version of Premiere Elements 7. The article was written for an earlier version. Principles essentially remain the same from version to version, but feature locations do seem to move around from version to version.

http://videoinasnap.chuckengels.com/source/steve/steve_tips_01-06.htm

Tomorrow I will post a basic step by step for keyframing pan and zoom for a still on the Premiere Elements 7 Timeline.

ATR
(I tend to go overboard with details, so I think that we should get along fine.)

[ATR]

add on...

I really should have said
is nothing more than keyframing the motion properties of scale and position for your image.

ATR

[truthseeker]

Thanks,
Tried your suggestions & they work

[ATR]

truthseeker

Glad to learn that those suggestions worked for you.

I just noticed that I promised you a step by step, but from what you wrote I guess you do not really need that at this point. Sorry, I got detoured again. I have written those details in prior posts, but I was going to repeat them again. (will hold off doing that again for now).

Good work.

Please do not hesitate to ask if further questions.

ATR

[Steadfast]

Gosh, ATR, I was waiting eagerly for those details! I've been struggling with pan and zoom and keyframing.

I did prepare a whole slide show in Photoshop Elements 7.0 with the easy pan and zoom features, doing what I wanted to do. But after I broke up the slide show in Premiere Elements 7.0 and tweaked some transitions, I ran into disk burning trouble. (encoding error at 45%, using the bare bones elements of a slide show, just one video track with the pan and zoom, simple transitions, oh--background color on a second video track). I never could find the source of the encoding error. So I thought I'd construct my slide show from scratch in Premiere. I wanted to learn motion keyframing, anyway.

I can't get it. I can't find detailed instructions. I can move the clip's position and resize it, and change its anchor point, somewhat, but I can't start with a close-up of a face at its original position and then zoom out to the entire picture. That's all I want to do. I can only seem to start out with a teeny picture and make it bigger.

I've tried exporting a photo, as a clip, from Photoshop, with the preset pan and zoom effects on it, and then placing it on the timeline and staring for a long time at the Properties window to see if I could duplicate the effect, but I couldn't. Help, please?

I'm using a Dell inspiron E1405, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002, service pack 3, 2 gig memory, 1.60GHZ, ~ 30 free GB memory on main HD; about 150 free GB on external disk, where avi files reside. I know I need a new computer.

THANK YOU. -- Steadfast (Pam)

[ATR]

Pam,

In Premiere Elements you can do pan or zooms with the Presets under Effects or do pans and zooms by “keyframing” the Motion properties of Scale and Position.

This is the Keyframe information in the Premiere Elements 7 Help PDF
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Premiere...51D5EF668.html (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PremiereElements/7.0/WSEFE98869-C3BB-4ba0-84B7-5F751D5EF668.html)

This is the Keyframe information from a popular online article, not done with Premiere Elements 7, but nonetheless demonstrates the principles involved. Principles tend to stay the same from version to version. It is the feature locations that tend to move around from version to version.
http://videoinasnap.chuckengels.com/...tips_01-06.htm (http://videoinasnap.chuckengels.com/source/steve/steve_tips_01-06.htm)

There are several write ups in this forum on the basic how to of doing pans and zooms with Keyframing. Check them out in Search here. This is the basic idea that comes across there:

Pans & Zooms via Keyframing of Motion Properties of Position and Scale:

1. Still on Timeline, highlight. Next step, Properties Palette/Motion Panel, gotten to via Properties Icon above Timeline or Window Menu/Properties.

2. Properties Panel, highlight “Motion” (click triangle to the left of the word Motion to expand Motion Panel to make options visible); to the right of the word “Motion” is an icon that looks like a stopwatch (called Toggle Animation).

3. When you select “Motion” (panel bar turns black), you should see handles around image in Monitor. Position Timeline cursor (CTI) at start of image on Timeline. In Monitor, with handles around image there, move/size image to whatever you want the start to look like. When finished, click the stopwatch icon to initiate the keyframing process.

4. Next, position the Timeline cursor to where you want the effect to end. To do that, you go back to the Monitor, with handles around image there, move/resize image to whatever you want the end to look like. NO NEED TO HIT THE STOPWATCH ICON AGAIN. That is essentially it. Play to see what you got. (When you are comfortable with that, using another Still, check out handles vs dialing in values for position etc. in Properties).

Any further questions, please do not hesitate to ask.

ATR

[Steadfast]

ATR, you are amazing. Thank you. I had read the two links you suggested before, and everything I could find that you had posted before.

The key to my understanding were the instructions in the accurate, sequence-of-events format. The lightbulb went on when I eventually understood that zooming in on a face meant increasing the scale. Thanks again.

Steadfast (Pam)

[ATR]

Pam,

I am glad that you are OK with keyframing. Thanks for the comments which were very helpful for my future write ups on the topic to communicate the procedure.

Now that you have mastered keyframing you will find so many uses for it, as in keyframing volume, opacity, effects, etc.

Keep up the good work and please let us know how you are progressing when you get the time.

ATR

[Steadfast]

Just an update: I have shipped my video and received rave reviews (see also my posts under captioning). Thanks so much to all who helped, especially ATR.

I must add: what I was going for here was a close-up on a face (on a still image), slowly widening out to the full frame, or vice-versa. Key to getting it right was realizing that I couldn't begin the "movement" at the beginning of the picture. If the duration was 7 seconds, I had to "hold" the close-up for two or three seconds and then add another keyframe in the same position, and then add a third at the new position to create the movement. Sequence of work flow was important, too. I had to really play with the transitions to get it right. I used cross-fades, but alternated "start at cut," "end at cut," and "center at cut" to suit the shot. This was my first project so there was a lot of trial and error. Thanks again. -- Steadfast (Pam)

[ATR]

Steadfast,

The news here and in your captioning thread was great. Congratulations on your success and your rave viewer reviews.

I noticed that in the thread that we are in that I just mentioned basic keyframing. I do not see that I mentioned holding the keyframe for a given time and then resuming the changing of the property with time. I have given those details elsewhere. So, I will add that note here, you can achieve the hold by inserting a manual keyframe. If more details on that needed by anyone, please post request.

Thanks again for letting us know the outcome.

ATR