How Can You Disable Ease-In and Ease-Out Of Ken Burns

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How Can You Disable Ease-In and Ease-Out Of Ken Burns

It seems that along with everything else that has changed with iMovie version 10, when you add photos to the timeline it automatically places an ease-in and ease-out to the Ken Burns move. For those of you who have been on a Mac for a while, this was how iMovie behaved in version 6 and earlier, and it feels rather dated.

If you are putting together a video slide show with multiple photos back to back, having the zoom ease in and out for every image is incredibly obnoxious. I can see situations when you are providing a narrative that it might be important, but often photos are just being animated to music. Is there a way to disable the easing or am I just best keeping to iMovie 9.0.9?

Thanks!

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 10:57 AM

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jeremy_v

Community Specialist

Nov 1, 2013 2:40 PM in response to Douglas Parker1

Hi Douglas,

Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.

It does look like this is the default behavior for imported pictures in iMovie 10, and can't be disabled from the iMovie preferences. The best workaround is to select all of the pictures in your timeline and turn off the Ken Burns effect using the Adjust menu.

iMovie Help

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov26d3f6a6c

Modify a crop, rotation, or Ken Burns effect

In the timeline, select the photos you want to modify or restore to their original state.

Click the Adjust button in the toolbar.

The adjustments bar appears above the clip in the viewer.

To show the cropping controls, click the Cropping button.

In the cropping controls, change Style from Ken Burns to Fit to display the pictures in their original size. From there, you can crop them individually as needed.

Best,

Jeremy

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b_mule

Level 1

86 points

Nov 2, 2015 6:20 PM in response to jeremy_v

Thanks Jeremy, worked prefectly.

Now if i could control the type size in the Soft Bar - Black title. It defaults to certain sizes.

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Answer 3

Nikour9

Level 1

4 points

Jun 14, 2017 2:30 PM in response to Douglas Parker1

Hi,

I just figured out how to solve this, you just need to select the clip, go to the "cropping" option on the top of the preview, select "Ken Burns" and crop it all the way out.

Hope this helps! 😁

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