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woytekz
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May 11, 2020
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How to make smooth Ken Burns Zoom in out effect in Premiere ... but so really professional

  • May 11, 2020
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I have a question about the usual Ken Burns Zoom Premiere effect.
Is it possible to make it smooth with some shortcut ?
Ok there is an easy in and easy out option, there are shortcuts for that
but it doesn't give you the fluidity to make it perfect, so I  have to modify the Velocity curve every time just like on my screnshot. Can you otherwise make a super-smooth move in Premiere...? 

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
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May 11, 2020

Jarle Leirpoll is a blazing fast editor/fx/sound/color guy from Norway, he's written by far the best and most comprehensive manual on using Premiere ... and teaches also.

 

He's totally focused on speed-speed-SPEED! of the editing process. His manual talks specifically about the "Ken Burns effect" ... how to build it, and how to save presets of it. When you go through one project, creating say 10 different setups for different image sizes and zoom/pan movements, you now have 10 presets that will cover a good share of your needs.

 

And all can be modified to taste and need later, far faster than creating from scratch ... and when modified, saved as a new preset expanding your tools.

 

To do this with an 'automated' process, you'd have to have a bunch of options to control to make it all work, and to modify for this image right now. If you have stored a decent level of presets, you can work as fast or faster. For Jarle, he'll be faster.

 

Neil

 

 

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    woytekzAuthor
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    May 11, 2020

    Hi Neil thanks ,

    I have this heavy book, both paper and e-book. Nice manual.
    He wrote about it. 5 whole pages, I just took a look. I didn't know he was writing about it,
    I have to practice it..

     

    Wojti

     

     

      MyerPj
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      MyerPjCommunity Expert
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      May 11, 2020

      I just recieved my paper copy about 5 minutes ago! 🙂

       

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
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        May 11, 2020

        Premiere allows for a wondrous amount of fine tuning user control, and isn't built to run on Auto. Most users don't want Auto.

         

        But ... as I noted, any time you build any complex effect process, save it as a preset ... that is the way to speed up and automate Premiere, and it is totally controlled to your taste then.

         

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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        woytekzAuthor
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        May 11, 2020

         

        That's true, but often such effects need to be prepared quickly, because most of the time you want to spend on creation, 

        and you can do that tons of such effects.

        And with different sizes and ratio of old photos ,  and when you create the animation  to the specific  parts of the picture to tell a story, it is hard to use presets, because it often takes a lot of time to re-edit. 
        But it's a shame you can't do it with an easy in-out parameter.

        These movements do not always have to end at the last frame ,  then you can't see the end of move

         and when you stop earlier, easy out always creates a jump at the end of the animation 

        I also noticed that with large scaling , it's more difficult to control the slowdown. 

         

        Wojti

        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        May 11, 2020

        Premiere can't guess as to what settings would be needed for how much zoom and motion you want on every image. So you need to create one for probably each image size (roughly) you work with.

         

        But once you create one and get the velocity set as you want, save it as a Preset. You should be saving tons of things you do as presets btw ...

         

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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        woytekzAuthor
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        May 11, 2020

        Thanks for the answer Neil 🙂 I'll try as you say with presets !!!

        I am editing a  long form documentary movie, and I have a lot of photos in very high resolutions. 

        (of course I've reduced it to offline work. it's a shame the proxy doesn't work on stills.)

        ... I move them in large close-ups and then you have to set this easy out very precisely ... It's a combination of anchor point and position and size parameters 

        I was wondering why Premiere does not do it as smoth  as it is done in Ken Burns' films using simple easy in 

        And I have just discovered that the manipulation of velocity. gives me the desired effect only.  

        Cheers

        Wojti

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