2. The Ken Burns effect The Ken Burns Effect , made famous by American documentary maker Ken Burns , is the technique of embedding still photographs in motion pictures, displayed with slow zooming and panning effects, and fading transitions between them. The zooming and panning across photographs gives the feeling of motion, and keeps the viewer visually entertained.
3. The basic Ken Burns effect The basic Ken Burns effect that is included in Apple’s iMovie software package is simply a zoom feature. This is fairly easy to replicate in PowerPoint, but the only drawback is that you have to zoom into the centre of the image.
4. Basic Ken Burns effect using Grow/ Shrink Size: 150% Speed: Slow
6. Custom motion path To zoom in on the old lady we first need to use a custom motion path to bring her to the centre of the screen. (Note because we have not zoomed in the edge of the photo will show up in the frame.)
7. Custom motion path combined with Grow/ Shrink If we combine the Grow/ Shrink and the Custom Motion path we get a good approximation of the Ken Burns effect
8. How we did it Basic Ken Burns effect using Grow/ Shrink Size:150% Speed :Slow 1 2 3 Select Sli d e Show > Custom Animation Select Grow/ Shrink Make timing to Slow or Very Slow
9. How we did it Adding a frame No Fill No Line No Line No Line No line
10. How we did it Adding a frame No Line No Line No Line No line No Fill
11. How we did it Creating a custom motion path 1 2 3 Select Sli d e Show > Custom Animation Select Add Effect > Motion Paths > Draw Custom Path > Line Move the green and red arrows and keep testing until you get the centre of the picture in the right place (this can be very fiddly to get right)
12. How we did it Combining motion path with Grow/ Shrink 1 In Custom Animation add in the Grow/ Shrink as before 2 To make both animations start at the same time, select Start > With Previous You may need to play around with the settings to get it working the way you want
