Hello YouTube. Mikeycal here and this is video number 20 in my series on
utilizing blender as a video editor.
Now, in the previous video, I showed you guys how you can zoom your movie in
and you can use pan and scan to make sure that the subject
of the movie is kept in the view. And in today's video I'm gonna show you guys
how to do the Ken Burns effect.
Now, for those of you that don't know who ken burns is, he's a famous documentarian
he did a documentary called the Civil War, and what he does is he'll take an old
photograph
and he'll zoom in to a component of that photograph and then move around the
photograph and tell a story.
And this is really easy to do with blender. So,
let's just get right to that. So let's go to the add menu,
and we're going to import image. And I have one right here.
Now proportions are all off so I need to right-click
on the image strip and go to the properties and
I need to put a check mark in the image offset box
and there you go. Now we're going to be doing some
keyframe inserting. So what I need to do is bring up our dope sheet and graph
editor and we're going to do that by going up this little triangular area up here in
and holding the mouse cursor over until we get this crosshair. Left click and pull
to left
and we're going to go to this drop down here and we're going to select
dope cheat. and we're going to get this drop down here and select graph editor
and we're gonna hold our mouse over, or the mouse cursor over the dope sheet and hit our
home button to zoom out
and hold our mouse cursor over the graph
and hit the home button to zoom out. Now let's right click on the
right-handle of the image strip, hit the G button, and let's pull it out to about 26 seconds.
You can see the time down here. Now,
we're going to need to add transform layer. So let's go to the add menu
and go to effects strip and select transform.
And I always tell you guys, whenever you make a transform layer, right click on the
original strip
go to strip menu and mute that strip.
There you go. Now let's right click on our transform strip.
Let's go over to the properties on the right and we're gonna need to insert
keyframes for our position
and for our scale. So, first let's actually
the put a check mark in the uniform scale box. And
we want to center this photo so let's
left click on the X coordinates and pull to the right and place it somewhere around the middle
and let's zoom and because I wanna fill the entire frame.
So left click on scale and pull. And let's make some adjustments to the
position now.
Let's try to get everybody in the picture frame. So,
I need to zoom out a little bit so I'm going to click this little
left arrow, next the scale. Keep clicking it.
And make our subtle adjustments.
Okay, that will do. This is the starting point. This is where our movie is going to
begin.
and we're gonna keep this view for about five seconds.
So wjat I'm gonna do is I'm gonna actually left click at five-second mark - right
here.
And place the Green Line. And you can use your arrow keys to actually
move it left and right each frame. And
what I'm going to do is, we're gonna insert our keyframes into our position in our
scale. So
hold your mouse cursor over the X value, and hit the "i" button - it turns yellow
that means it inserted the keyframe.
and you see the keyframe up here, and it's also on the graph. Let's do that for each
of these. Let's see - Y - hit the "i" button.
hold it over scale. Hit the "i" button. And now you can see, they've named
each of the keyframes here. And they've color-coded them. And
what we wanna do now is, this is the starting point of our transition
- our first transition. So let's go ahead another five seconds to
10 seconds - right here. And, I'm gonna adjust this with
my arrow key - to the left. There we go. And
where do I want this transition to end? Well let's place it at the ending point
by going up to the X value and the y value
and changing them to the appropriate position
and the scales well. So actually, Let's start with the scale. By left clicking on the scale - and
we'll zoom in to my grandparents - who are sitting in the center.
So I'm going to click this little
left arrow next to scale.
Okay, that will do, and what we're going to do is we are going to hold
our mouse cursor over each of these properties and hit "i".
So hold it over the X - hit I. hold it over the Y - hit "i".
Hold it over the scale - hit "i". And you can see you each of the keyframes
appearing on the graph and in the dope sheet. Let's hold our mouse cursor over the
dope sheet - hit the home button to zoom out. So
we can see the keyframes better. And do the exact same thing over the graph
hold the cursor over here, and hit the home button. And we can see
the curves here. So let's actually click this
back - jump button - that actually jumps us back one keyframe.
And hit play and see what this transition looks like.
There we go.
So basically, at 10 seconds, we
have finished our first transition. So Let's actually click
this jump - back button - again back to our last keyframe.
And let's do another transition. Now let's
actually make it - let's actually make it so that actually stays
in the position for five seconds. So what we're gonna do now is we're going to jump
ahead
to 15 seconds. And
we're going to go to X value, over here, and hit insert keyframe.
And Y - insert keyframe. Hit your "i" button. And
scale "i". Now what this does is, it's actually going to make sure that
it stays in one position for a total of five seconds.
So let's actually go over our dope sheet and hit our home button - let's see what we have...
Now, you notice that we have this solid line between these two
keyframes? Thats the dope sheets way of showing us that
there is no change in property values
from this keyframe to this keyframe. So it's an easy way to see where we have
our stops.
And, we're gonna have a five-second Stop. Where it's gonna stay at this position
before it moves to the next one. Okay, so let's also
hold our mouse cursor over here, and hit the home button again to see all the curves over.
You can see, it's all straight across - there's no curve.
between this keyframe and this key frame.
So now what we want to do is, we want to move to another
subject of this photo. So let's jump ahead another
five seconds to 20 seconds. And let's place it
on somebody else. How about
the ladies here? So
It will now move to here. And all we're gonna do
is, we're going to insert keframes: "i", "i".
And we didn't change the scale. So we technically don't have to put "i" - but I'll
put one there anyway.
Okay, so let's zoom out. We keep zooming out.
And hit the home button here. And you can see on
the scale it didn't change. So it's showing us that there's a yellow bar there.
So, that's a nice way of seeing that we didn't change our scale.
But we did change our Y value and X value - perfect.
And let's hold our cursor over here - hit the home button. And we can see
the rest of the curves. And,
Now, what I want to do is, I want to actually go back
a couple frames, a couple keyframes, and we're going to play this out and see what it looks like. I'll play it from
beginning - in fact.
We'll go all the way back to the beginning and hit play. And will see, Its stays for five seconds.
a 5 seconds, it should start doing a transition - right now.
zooming in. At 10 seconds, It will stop.
It will stop for five seconds. And once we get to the fifteen-second mark,
it will continue to move to
my grandmother, on the left, and great aunt on the right.
And there you go. So that's how you do that.
And, a couple other things I wanna show you guys. You can actually
deactivate a transition by actually clicking on these little volume controls.
I don't know why they make them volume controls but they're really an on/off switch.
If you click here, it will actually deactivate this value from
changing. It will actually deactivate the keyframe.
So if I actually go back... I'll actually deactivate all
of these. And we'll actually watch what happens when I play from the beginning.
So,
it doesn't do anything. It doesn't know to change anything. It just
stays where it was. So that's a way that you can actually
just deactivate one of the keyframes...
Or a number of keyframes and...
I think that is all you guys really need to know
for doing the actual transition process for a photo - to do to Ken Burns effect.
So, I'll see you guys in the next video.