Tyler Evans Wednesday May 8 th, 2013. Timing and Music Generally 10-15 minutes is good target Timing can be anywhere from 3 – 7 seconds per slide/picture.

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Tyler Evans

Wednesday May 8th, 2013

Timing and Music Generally 10-15 minutes is good target

Timing can be anywhere from 3 – 7 seconds per slide/pictureFast show: 2-3 secondsModerate slow show 5-7 seconds

Music should generally be calm and soothing, more of background music than something with lots of lyrics that makes you want to sing along

Ken Burns Effect Effect of panning and zooming used in video production

from still imagesKen Burns was famous director and producer of documentary

films (1981-present) Gives “action” to still photographs for use in videos or

slideshows

1. Adds motion to still images

2. Transitions between images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTiyRDhlRY

Ken Burns Effect in Software Apple: Final Cut Pro, iMovie Windows: Windows Movie Maker, Adobe

Premiere

Steve Jobs met with Burns and got his permission to name effect after him and donated money to charity for rights

Most Popular Slideshow Software

iPhoto and iMovie (Apple) Picasa (Google) PowerPoint (Microsoft) Windows Movie Maker (Microsoft) Photoshop (Adobe)

iPhoto

Travel pictures on a maphttp://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/#new-slideshows

Origami folding transitions Reflections

Video effects

Flash and holdPlay an action segment of videoFlash the screen white in the middle of the

actionSlowly zoom out from a still mid-actionResume video

http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

Microsoft PowerPoint

How to add multiple photos all at onceClick “insert”Click “photo album”

○ Click “new photo album”

Microsoft PowerPoint (2)

Picture Layout: Fit to page for full screen, or how many on each screen

Ken Burns in PowerPoint Ken Burns Effect in PowerPoint

Select Slide Show > Custom Animation○ Then on the right hand Custom Animation bar Add

Effect > Emphasis > Grow/ Shrink○ Set the timing to Slow or Very Slow

Select Slide Show > Custom Animation > Add Effect > Motion Paths >Draw Custom Path > Line○ Move the green and red arrows and keep testing until

happyIn custom animation add in the Grow/ Shrink as before

○ Click on the second animation and change Start > With Previous

Microsoft PowerPoint (3)

White Frame Black Frame Faded Rectangle Faded Oval

Bevel Perspective Snip Diagonal Corner

Reflection

Shape Cutout Heart

Picture border effects

Microsoft PowerPoint (4)

Compress images to save file size

Animoto Music: Upload own, or animoto selection Drag images to change order

Animoto Samples

Spring in DC (made in 5 min)http://animoto.com/play/6ktDrkAqWQhC9BDQX82D6Q

Website Sampleshttp://animoto.com/