Add Life to Your Photos with the Ken Burns Effect! A Lightworks Tutorial

Welcome to our Lightworks tutorial series! This video demonstrates how to use the Ken Burns effect to add dynamic zooms to your photo montages. You'll learn how to apply the zoom effect, establish keyframes, and create smooth animations between keyframes to bring your photos to life. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user, our step-by-step guide will enhance your video editing skills.
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[@fenrisulfur666]

Thank you

[@CraigMarshall_HDvideo4K]

This seems a lot easier to perform than in Resolve for example but to really master the effect and deliver true Rostrum Camera quality, variable speed and 'ease-in/ease-out' options need to be implemented. The 'Ken Burns effect' is done to death in digital editing and like slow motion and drone footage, it stands the chance of becoming 'ho-hum'. If we are going to employ the effect, then subtlety is the key! Perhaps variable splines could be incorporated into the keyframe graphs?

[@stanlee4765]

Hey LWKS, can you do a video on Lightworks reading (voice over) text from the screen while the words are being displayed, please? I just subscribed to your channel!

[@LWKSVIDEO]

Hey there! You can easily record voiceovers directly onto your timeline. Check out this tutorial: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4qtq2t4a6yseNk

[@thefonzkiss]

Wouldn’t you have been better using the arrow keys to jump to the start of the new clips and then adding the keyframes there? Or did you deliberately screw up so you could show how to fix it …

[@LWKSVIDEO]

Thank you for this comment! I purposely shifted the conversation to talk about the keyframe menu because I think it's a more important concept to grasp when working with keyframes, but that is definitely the best way to do it!

[@ohbo11ox]

Asked for last week and you delivered this week, mucho thanko!

[@peterstaffordallen4488]

While I admit I am a free user the tutorials are frustrating for me [windows] in the the LW interface is different....ie I have no Zoom function.. etc

[@LWKSVIDEO]

Hey there! This was done on Windows using the latest version. Just wanted to let you know that the Zoom effect is in the newer versions of Lightworks. I'd recommend updating via the website. However, if you prefer using an older version, no worries! You can still achieve the same results by using the Transform effect or the 3D DVE depending on your version, same principles with the key frames. Hope that helps!