Messages posted by Ken

Thanks for your quick reply! I have PD5 Premium also. I know how the resize the "pan & zoom" select box. Even with this feature you don't have control over whether it will zoom in or out or which direction it will pan. Sometimes I will want a picture to zoom out and PD5 will zoom in. There is no way, that I can see, to control that. I figured out that there is some degree of control over the pan feature. If you shape the box horizontally (with pan checked) it will pan that direction but there is no way to make it go left or right. It sounds like a small issue but I have made several movie where a picture of a person is funny because of what is around the person. If you start on a closeup of the face and zoom out, it will be funny. If you select the face in the select box and PD decides that you want to zoom in it spoils the effect. Conversely, if you have a group shot and want to zoom in on someone making a funny face. You select the face and PD decides to start on the face and zoom out it spoil the effect. The "KEN BURNS EFFECT" allows total control over the pan & zoom. You can select where to start and where to end. You can pan and zoom in the same image. The namesake is a director named (you guessed it) Ken Burns. He is most famous for directing a PBS mini series called "The Civil War" about the US civil war. In that film he used the movie camera to "explore" old photographs and make you feel a sense of motion from a still photograph. Thanks again for your quick response and hopefully other users will scream for this very nice feature. Anyone reading this please post a reply so we can get some attention to this really neat add-on. Aren't you tired of your Apple brethren belittling your movie software??

My brother has a Mac and uses iMovie. I have watched him work with it and I really didn't see many glaring shortfalls in PD5. The one effect that I would LOVE to have in PD5 is the "Ken Burns Effect." This allows you to select how to Pan and Zoom on a picture in your movie. In PD5 you never know if the picture will zoom in or out or pan to the correct spot. I think this would be a great feature in PD. I would even pay for an add-on to have this effect. If you agree let's fill up this Forum and catch the attention of a programmer at Cyberlink.

Thanks Ken Lebersfeld