Wedding slideshow -what program?

[P-Worm]

For one thing, you won't find something labeled "The Ken Burns Effect" in iMovie I don't think except for a checkbox in the preferences window. That is just the name Apple gives to the effect of panning and zooming across pictures in a slideshow. You find the effect by just going to your photos tab and then as you add your picture it should move and zoom your picture automatically and allow you to set the start and end point.

As for the other effect, you need at least Final Cut Express to pull it off, though it is much easier to do if you have Shake, After Effects, or the new version of Motion. If you have any of those, I can maybe make a quick tutorial for you.

P-Worm

 

[ibglowin]

Click on Media

Then Photos and make sure "Show Photo Settings" is being displayed right under the search box.

You should be seeing the Ken Burns effect box once you actually click on one of your iPhotos.

I used iMovie for a huge slideshow project for my in-laws when they came back from a 2 week trip to China a few years ago. He had spent a week trying to do something on his PC. I made a pretty darn slick slideshow in iPhoto with transitions, KB effect, music of their choice in about 2 hours and then burned it to iDVD with menu's.

They were blown away!

 

[gokuu]

Well I do have final cut express hd....I would so love to get something, anything that would get me in the right direction...Thanks

 

[teocarlo]

What programs for the 2.5d effect...

If you only have FCP, you can make it work the way Lethal describes, but I would really recommend using a program that has real 3d space. If you use 3d layers and a camera to accomplish the effect, you get movement that looks genuinely 3d, a look that is harder to accomplish by scaling the layers.

What are the programs available for the 2.5d effect that you can recommend outside of scaling in FCP?

 

[ab2650]

What are the programs available for the 2.5d effect that you can recommend outside of scaling in FCP?

Motion.