Tutorial on Creating Motion from Stills
You can use the image preprocessor to create motion from stills, the "Ken Burns" effect. This tutorial shows a simple example of that. Doing it in SynthEyes is different than doing a 2D image zoom and pan, because, with the proper lens field of view, it is recalculating the correct perspective shift, as if the camera was on a tripod, instead of the 2-D image-being-slid-around look.
The display is a bit laggy with this 3K+ image. I realized afterwards that it would have been cleverer to downsample a proxy version of the image to set up the animation, then drop in the final image. In the tutorial, I turned on the downsampling, which may have made the display slower, because it must recalculate the downsampling too.
Notes:
- You can download the source image (7 MB) and the final output movie (1.4 MB). Image credit: NASA.
- The tutorial is 5:45 and 16.7 MB long. You can download a Quicktime version of the tutorial (20.5 MB).
- The display is a bit laggy with this 3K+ image. It would have been cleverer to downsample a proxy version of the image to prepare the shot. SynthEyes could help do that too. In the example, I turned out the downsampling, which may have made the display SLOWER, because it must recalculate the downsampling too.
- Check out all the other tutorials and the manual too (after downloading the demo version).
- Mac version is the same, done on a PC (E6600 Core 2 Duo) due to capture software availability.
