Pan and Zoom in Kdenlive: Ken Burns Effect Tutorial

[@spiritualityshoppe]

Great tutorial. I watched once, then slowly went through again imitating every step with my own video. Then I took notes. Now I have got it!

[@marianhreads]

I've been needing to know how to do this forever... thank you for this excellent tutorial!

[@CogitoEdu]

This is brilliant thanks. Just what I was looking for. Your Kden tutorials are the best.

[@hocrazor]

lol i was doing this intuitiv a lot of times in my vids.... but i never knew that you could copy paste them... safes my a ton of time... thx a lot and best greetings from switzerland

[@LazyCookPete]

Once again your video has proven most useful, thank you!

[@robertcortez1109]

thank you tux designer for this tutorial. the ken burns effect would be nice for a slideshow

[@tuxdesigner3856]

Totally! And if you stick with the zoom-in, it's very nice for copying and pasting between different clips, you just have to change the one zoomed-in keyframe position and maybe adjust the zoom level just a little.

[@LeerparaCrear]

I always wanted to do that and finally you've showed me the way to go. Thank you!

[@jtn8170]

Very fine tutorial, thanks you for taking time to make these. It is amassing that Ken Burns is so buggy on Linux. It has bin easy available on other platforms for decades.

[@tuxdesigner3856]

You have issues with Kdenlive when using pan/position and zoom effects? Perhaps you can solve them by upgrading to the latest version? (usually can be solved with apt-get: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apy5n3RnaqmCrKs )

[@jtn8170]

I am using Version 16.08.2 and I agree that pan and zoom now is useable but I won't call it elegant. The only problem I have with this version is that Rendering never ends, but get stock on "Waiting on rendering to finish" After I discovered the zoom on middle mouse button it helped enormous. I am dragging with the mouse because I can't wrap my head around typing numbers. One thing I miss in pan and zoom is the possibility to lock aspect ratio which will help when I am doing Ken Burns om my photo and want to show it on my TV. And just to clarify I love kdenlive and find it far above any other video editor I have used.

[@tuxdesigner3856]

I also had that render-never-ending issue, although it didn't happen in a while. When using mp4/x264 it was possible to ignore the issue though - if the video plays back, then it seems to be done. I agree about the pan & zoom (GPU) filter. I prefer position and zoom (CPU) for that reason. I'm not 100% sure but position and zoom (CPU) might also have interpolation while pan and zoom (GPU) might not, meaning that slow movement will feel laggy with the GPU effect.

[@NorthwoodsAcres]

Great tips. This is so easy once you see what you are doing in the video. Thank you!

[@trepetsvitla]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! It is really helpful))I could only dream about doing something like this using Kdenlive, but now it is reality. Thank you for that!

[@semedic1319]

Greate job! Thank you!

[@seguramlk]

Thank you so much. Awesome tutorial

[@lucacerciello6122]

Thank you very much it helped a lot!

[@ExtremeWays4Bourne]

Great tutorial! But can I use this for videos also? For example, to zoom in on a specific content in an educational tutorial?

[@jackb1803]

Absolutely. If you shoot a video im 4k, have a single tripod mounted camera, and you have 2 people being interviewed, you can cut and pan left and right and simulate a 3 camera shoot.

[@magnum333]

Thank you so much!

[@Gusrikh1]

Very, very helpful.

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

12:02 The result shocking I never know I could reach such result with Kdenlive .

[@CrearActivos]

Great. Thank

[@soldateska]

thanks for that!

[@YngPup]

where can I get this program for windows 10?

[@moon-coder]

I also wanted to know! I asked my friends... then tried to google this... I even emailed the developers to find out and posted this question on a few video editing forums. I needed the answer fast so I kept asking everywhere! Waited one or two minutes and since I got no quick answer, desperate, I went to the following site: "kdenlive.org", and found it in the "downloads" section.

[@cameronholtan3407]

You can find it here: kdenlive.org/en/download/ Oh the irony, I never thought KDEnlive would've been very usable in Windows, let alone installable, but here 'ya go.

[@naosejaummotoristaotario9857]

that's cool TCHAU !

[@fearvoltex8360]

Can you tell me how to zoom back?

[@jackb1803]

Just change the zoom settings. If you go below 100% you will start to see the borders of the video so this is rarely done.

[@nyahhbinghi]

next time, maybe show what the ken burns effect is, at the beginning?

[@jimchevallier528]

Yeah. For me this was way over-detailed and assumed an interest in the actual subject as opposed to the effect. Show us how to pan, right from the start, then pan and stop, but not a step by step analysis of a Civil War scene.

[@jackb1803]

He does this in the first minute.

[@savinokaja8277]

It doesn't show me the red box around it

[@jackb1803]

In your Project Monitor, make sure the edit icon (looks like a box with a slash through it), located under the monitor is clicked.

[@PictorshopStudio]

I don't understand when we get a sync tutorial on KZbin for the latest version that we have currently installed. You pick any tutorial and you get lost with tools and techniques because what you have installed is different than what is being taught. God knows when will this software maker realizes the need of the hour.

[@McCucumber]

This program is not user friendly.

[@ToonShader]

It is, you just have to pay attention to what you are doing and have basic video editing experience.

[@McCucumber]

@@ToonShader Garbage program, not user friendly. If you have to search on youtube how to use it, it's not user friendly. Hmm.

[@jackb1803]

There are a dozen other video editors you can try, some very simple and easy, and others even more complicated than Kdenlive that can do everything. And cost $$$.