[wANCO tHE sANE]

Hey. Me and my friends are doing a SNL type paradoy of jeopardy using imovie for a class, and i was planning to do the blue screen with the question on imovie. the way i plan on doing this is making a picture in like graphic converter with white text, import it into imovie, and have the question flash on the screen for a couple of seconds. but with imovie 3, it tends to zoom on the still pictures. does anyone know how to disable this zoom, or have any other alternatives to the screen things?

[Weezer]

from another thread:

Maybe this was covered somewhere else, but in the latest June 2003 issue of Macworld magazine, the tip of the month is how to turn off the Ken Burns affect..resetting imovie to only put in the affect if you want to hit APPLY, rather than as a default.

Using TextEdit, open the com.apple.iMovie3.plist file, found by following this path:
-/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie3.plist

Find the autoApplyPanZoomToImportedStills entry. It is maybe half way thru the document. Two lines below this entry (and one line above <key>Option autoSceneDetect: %d) you'll see true . Change this to false . Save and close the file, and imovie will no longer pan and zoom as default on your photos...only when you want them.

[NYCFarmboy]

Maybe this was covered somewhere else, but in the latest June 2003 issue of Macworld magazine, the tip of the month is how to turn off the Ken Burns effect..resetting imovie to only put in the effect if you want to hit APPLY, rather than as a default.

Using TextEdit, open the com.apple.iMovie3.plist file, found by following this path:
-/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie3.plist

Find the autoApplyPanZoomToImportedStills entry. It is maybe half way thru the document. Two lines below this entry (and one line above <key>Option autoSceneDetect: %d) you'll see true . Change this to false . Save and close the file, and imovie will no longer pan and zoom as default on your photos...only when you want them.

Thanks to Macworld and Karl H. Hehr of Ames Iowa for this!

[Weezer]

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[wANCO tHE sANE]

Whoah! I forgot to post a reply... stupid me. But yeah, thanks weezer (weezer rocks y0!) and farmboy for the reply... got it to work!! thanks. i tried to search... didn't really know what the effect was called, sorry about the double post. but thanks to you both!