Using The Ken Burns Effect In iMovie 

If you are using vertical photos in a horizontal video then you don't have as much room to move it around as you have to cover the frame. You can't have "nothing" behind the main timeline. However, if you put something else as the main timeline and then show the vertical photo in a picture-in-picture overlay instead, you can use keyframes to animate it as you like. I show this in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-esz_6A6oHkM.html

Thank-you! My head is spinning from the many solutions you provide in the linked video. Until now, I've settled for having black margins when applying Ken Burns to a vertical photo.@@macmost

There's nothing like that. It starts each time at those zoom levels.

@@macmost aww ok thanks so much for responding!

There are lots of things you can do. For instance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mAv0x06toiU.html Search my site for "keynote iMovie" to see more.

Not sure what you are asking here.

@@macmost I’m not even sure how to ask. 🤦🏼‍♀️ but I feel sure you can’t.

No, nothing like that I'm afraid. You can definitely do a lot of that sort of thing in Final Cut Pro, so it may be time to level up.

@@macmost nice. Thanks for the tip!

You can't crop to 1080x1080 (1:1) if the video project is 16:9. That doesn't make any sense since everything has to be in the 16:9 video. The video can't change ratio while being played.

Ken Burns isn't cropping, it is position and zoom. Just set the position and zoom for the start and end of the Ken Burns effect.

You'll need to move the iMovie Project file over to the new Mac. That should contain everything. But using Migration Assistant, it should take care of that and a lot more for you.

@@macmost thanks. I will now watch "what to do when you get a new Mac" video... I probably should've started there. Thanks.

I don't know what you are going for. You can't pan and show the whole image at the same time. Some of it will have to be cropped by definition.

See ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pe-OchN5mvs.html

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x_I1ggMqeAM.html

Just make sure you don't zoom in too much. You can't see any exact numbers on that, so you'll just have to eyeball it.

There's no setting to turn that off.

@@macmost Darn! Thank you for answering! I really appreciate it :)

Try ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ktNKnAmVfUM.html

That's why people are interested in shooting 8K even though monitors that display that resolution are rare.

Recording at a higher resolution is what counts. Converting from lower to higher just to zoom in won't help at all. If you zoom in you will lose resolution, of course, but look at the result and see if it is acceptable to you and your final use.

Not at the same time. But one after the other, yes.

It is on the iPhone too. support.apple.com/guide/imovie-iphone/adjust-zoom-effects-knac3eec39c6/ios

No, the ratio is the ratio. You can't have blank bars or something at the top or bottom. Use another crop option without the animation, or take the photo into an image editing app and add extra solid color areas to the sides.

No, I think it is only for still images in iMovie for iPhone.

@@macmost thanks man

No, they can't be rotated.

@@macmost thank you. Appreciate your vids

There is no iMovie for Windows. It is for Mac/iPad/iPhone.

Yes. Select the clip in the main timeline. Then you should see either Ken Burns Disabled or Ken Burns Enabled at the bottom right corner of the preview area.

@@macmost I don’t see it when I select a video clip. 😕 I’m using a 12 Pro Max.

@@paulsantoro1082 Is the clip in the main timeline (not an overlay)? Is the clip a photo (not a video)?

@@macmost main timeline. Video not photo.

@@paulsantoro1082 So there's your problem. It is only for photos in the iPhone. I guess the thinking is that videos already have movement. But you can use Ken Burns on a video on iMovie for Mac.

Try restarting iMovie. If that doesn't work, try it with various clips to see if it is maybe a problem with the clip selected.

Not sure what you mean.

@@macmost Hi- Im trying to get a more vertical effect. Start long (not wide) and go in, or vice versa. I've watched a lot of these videos on how to use Ken Burns. All I'm seeing for KB are examples of it on horizontal pics. In iMovie, I can't get the 'start' and 'end' prompt boxes to go vertical. I really want to incorporate the effect on some pics and import into Keynote. That is, unless you have a cool way to achieve a KB effect in Keynote that I don't know about. Does this make it any clearer?

@@GuyFromGeorgia So it isn't that the KB effect needs to be vertical, but the whole video needs to be vertical? Video you make in iMovie is horizontal, usually 16:9. There are tricks to using vertical, but not for 5x7 if that is what you want. You'll need to go to a different video editor (FCP, DaVinci, Premiere, etc) if you want to produce 5x7 video.

@@macmost I want to take a 5x7 pic, in vertical format, and apply the KB effect to it. I'd like to use that file (I assume it would be a .mov file) in either a Keynote presentation or an iMovie. I've yet to find a suitable way to do it.

And thanks for your consideration. I've ben pulling my hair out trying to see if this is possible.

You would split the clip. Split it twice, once where you want the zooming in to stop, and once where you want it to start zooming out. Then apply Ken Burns to the first clip to zoom in, then the last clip to Zoom out. You can then just crop the middle clip, or use Ken Burns there too but with start and end at about the same amount.

@@macmost Thanks for the reply, MacMost! Wow, a reply in one day-it's unheard of! Much appreciated. The problem is that in the last clip-the one where you have to zoom out-you have to somehow match the exact position of the zoomed-in portion that you wanted to "hold" in the second clip because once you split the second clip then the Ken Burns effect is lost in the third clip. Or is it? Does the third clip (I haven't yet tried this, but it sounds like it couldn't work) maintain the exact zoomed-in position of the middle "hold" clip so you can just do a reverse Ken Burns and then zoom out? It's that *matching the zoomed-in position* of the middle clip onto the beginning of Clip 3 that's screwing me up. But Hollywood *must* have a way to do this after the film is shot, that doesn't involve all these machinations, mustn't it?

@@kamakirinoko Yes, it will retain the KB sizes and you can reverse them. Play around and you'll see. As for Hollywood, they aren't using iMovie. They are using Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere and other pro apps.

@@macmost Heh, yeah, sorry about the Hollywood crack-I should know, as I was a Final Cut Pro editor for a couple of years in the mid 2000s (but I've forgotten it all now). Yes, earlier I discovered the what used to be called "Paste Attributes" command, but iMovie's equivalent. So copying one clip and just pasting the "crop" into another clip will confer whatever modifications (I haven't tried anything except "Paste Crop attributes" yet, but I'm pretty sure one can copy color/contrast attributes and paste those as well into a new clip. I tried some of the stuff and applied it to a video I was working on where I wanted to zoom in on something like I was talking about, and it works okay-sort of: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v-JCuzApbj0.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns

I find it to be pretty rock solid as to how it works. Maybe create a sample project to just play with it for a bit and get the hang of how the interface works.