Ken Burns effects in the Toolbox

First, start with an empty project and add a few images. Go to the Toolbox and there select the tab motion paths. To the left, under the Toolbox you can enter the term “Ken Burns” into the search field so that only the Ken Burns effects are displayed. Click on the effect in the Toolbox and observe the icon. You will see a small preview of the effect.

2. Applying the Ken Burns effect

Drag the desired Ken Burns effect onto the image in the Timeline.

The effect will be dragged onto the image

You can also highlight the image in the Timeline and then right click on the Ken Burns effect in the Toolbox. Select apply in the context menu to transfer the effect to the selected image. If you wish to apply a Ken Burns effect to multiple, or all images, mark the relevant images in this way.

Selecting all images:
 Ctrl  +  a 

Selecting specific images:
 Ctrl  +  mouse click  on the relevant image.

Now right click on a Ken Burns effect in the Toolbox and choose the option apply from the context menu, or double click on the effect in the Toolbox.

3. Creating smooth transitions

Setting alphablending in “properties”

If all your images include one or several Ken Burns effects, a smooth transition between the images is particularly effective.

•Select all of the images by simultaneously holding down  Ctrl  and  A .

•No in the properties window under fading in select the option alphablending.

•Under background the option fill should be set to off.

4. Tiered structure for even smoother transitions

You can find the overlapping effect in the toolbox under object effects.

In order to make the transitions between images even more fluid, insert the overlapping object from the Toolbox. Open the tab objects in the Toolbox and go to the object effects section.

Drag the overlapping effect into the Timeline. Select the images that you want to insert by holding down the  Ctrl  key and clicking on the images. Drag the selected images into the still empty overlapping effect.