The Ken Burns effect UPDATED using Sony Vegas

Add depth when using still images in your videos. You need Adobe Photoshop and Sony Vegas. Its all done with keyframe editing and layer masks. its a hands on process... there is no plugin for this.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• sony
• vegas
• photo
• zoom
• keyframe
• editing
• photoshop
• adobe
• ken
• burns
• effect

[idnicholson]

This is a fantastic effect. How did you do it??

[LanceCampeau]

Its a careful setup... the photo needs to be "cut" into 2 layer masks... foreground and background.

The background then needs to be air brushed slightly to fill the gaps left by cutting the subject away for the image.

Then the 2 layers are blended in Sony Vegas and the Pan&Crop tool is used to create the illusion of motion...

[Malkintosh]

This isn't ken burns but it is good to know you can do this with a picture. With video this is called a 'zolly' shot. FYI

[MercuryVideoscomau]

Love it!

I'll have to try this out.

Love it.

(I use Kdenlive in Linux - this is NOT to compare the two programs, just that that is where I'll be trying this out :))

[chickennone]

how long does it typically take to keyframe something like that ? 15-20 mins ?

[chickennone]

not really ken burns But Better ( I think )

[idnicholson]

Thanks for that - I'll have to have a try!!