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Chapter 6 Adding Transitions and Photos 53

To crop a photo before you add it to your movie:

1 Click the Photos button and make sure the Ken Burns Effect checkbox is selected.

2 Select a photograph from your iPhoto library and use the pan and zoom controls to

position your photo how you like it.

3 Click Start.

4 Press the Option key and click Finish.

5 Set the duration of the clip.

6 Click Apply or drag the photo to your project.

Applying Motion to Multiple Photos

You can quickly apply the same motion settings to more than one photo at a time.

For example, if you are creating a slideshow of your photographs, you may want all the

photos (or some of the photos) to play for the same length of time. You can select the

photos (up to 10 at a time), set the duration and any other pan and zoom effects you

want, then click Apply (or Update if you’re making changes to photos already in your

movie).

To select multiple clips:

• Hold down the Shift key and select the first and last clips in a range. All the clips in

between are also selected.

• Hold down the Command key to select individual clips that aren’t next to each other

(discontiguous clips).

Did You Know? — Copying Pan and Zoom Settings

for a Clean Finish

Setting up a Ken Burns Effect requires you to set up how the image appears at the

start of the effect, and then set up the image as it should appear at the end.

Sometimes the ending image should be very similar to the start.To save time

adjusting the image, you can have iMovie transfer the starting image settings to the

ending settings so that you need to make only small adjustments.

To copy the starting settings to the ending settings, click the Photos button and

make sure the Ken Burns Effect checkbox is selected. Select a photograph from your

iPhoto library and click Start. Set up the pan and zoom effect you want. Press the

Option key and click Finish. Make the final pan and zoom changes your image needs.

Drag the photo into the clip viewer or timeline viewer.

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Apple iMovie HD User Manual Page 53