Pausing at the end of a Ken Burns Effect

To add a pause to the end of a Ken Burns zoom, the trick is to duplicate the KB clip, then convert the second clip to a pause. Like this:

1. Create the Ken Burns clip with the zoom you want.
2. Option-drag that clip to duplicate it. Place the second clip immediately after the first.
3. Click on the second clip (which displays its settings in the Ken Burns Effect configuration area).
4. Click on the End side of the Start/End slider. Then Option-click on the Start end of the slider, which applies the End settings to the Start. Set the duration slider to the pause you want, then Update the clip. It now plays with the same zoom as the last frame of the first clip.

Karl

Thanks Karl.

I tried what you suggest. But when I get to Step 4 (Option-Click on the Start end of the slider), with the Ken Burns effect still "on", this just seems to "unzoom" the zooming done to being with.

Perhaps I am just showing my ignorance, since I don't understand what "Option-click" means: how is this executed? I also don't see how one selects the duration of the "pause". If one can select the duraton of a pause, why not let the Ken Burns effect zoom in, then "pause" before going on to the next phot?

Sorry to sound so ignorant!

Regards,

Bob

I don't understand what "Option-click" means: how is this executed? I

Hold down the Option key on the keyboard, then click on the Start end of the Start/End thingy. In this context, Option-clicking applies the End settings to the Start, so the clip no longer has an animated zoom.

I also don't see how one selects the duration of the "pause".

The whole clip we're making is the pause. It's a second clip that plays after the first (zooming) clip. These directions create a second clip that "pauses" after the first clip zooms.

Option-dragging the first clip makes a copy that we change into a pause. (Holding down the Option key and dragging the clip to another location duplicates the clip.)

Hope it makes better sense.

Karl

Hi Karl,

The link above is no longer active. May I trouble you to repeat your instructions here?

Thanks in advance for your help.