[ale] Special effects used while creating a slide show

[Robert Reese]

Hello aaron,

Saturday, November 28, 2009, 1:45:38 PM, you wrote:


> On 2009, Nov, 28, , at 9:00 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:

>> What you are looking for is "The Ken Burns Effect".

> Actually, the effect is called "pan and zoom", and it has
> been around for as long as there have been motion picture
> cameras.

Except that it was virtually unused on static photographs before Ken Burns popularized the process.

Pan and Zoom is still usually relegated to video, while "Ken Burns Effect" is almost exclusively meant to simulate the Pan and Zoom on static images.

The differences are subtle, but important in cinematography.

Cheers,
Robert~