First, a Tutorial

http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_pan_scan.html

Everyone seems to want it... "How can I pan over photos like Ken Burns does in his documentaries..." Well you don't necessarily need additional software - learn how to pan and scan using FCP. Read Ken Stone's very helpful tutorial.

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Granted Softwarehttp://www.grantedsw.com/still-life/

Still Life

Working Demo availableStill Life lets you pan and zoom over a series of photos in order to turn them into a QuickTime movie or a DV stream for use in iMovie (or FCP!). Still Life also supports cross fading between photo scenes.

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StageToolshttp://www.stagetools.com

Moving Picture

Working Demo Available.This is a tool for making smooth pans and zooms on hi-res stills. It is available as a standalone app or plug-in. Very easy to use, and the camera moves have lovely realistic blurring & stop & start momentum - just like a "live" camera. Impressive. Now if only Apple would buy 'em for FCP4 FCP5...

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LQ Graphics http://lqgraphics.com/software/

Photo to Movie 1.0 for Mac OS X

Working Demo Available.If you can't afford StageTools, there is a real cheap alternative - Photo to Movie. P2M enables you to create a movie by zooming and panning over a photo (or evern a Quicktime VR scene). It uses a simple interface to specify the starting and ending frames and generates full quality DV, QuickTime or DV Stream files (compatible with iMovie). Photo to Movie only runs on Mac OS X.

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Apple http://www.apple.com/imovie/

iMovie 4

“...What’s more, you can bring your digital stills to life with professional documentary-style impact, using the Ken Burns pan and zoom effects you’ve seen in PBS specials...”

No Working Demo Available

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FXScript DVE's Scroll/Roll Title

Do you already have it?It comes from CGM, and was bundled with FCP3 - check out FXScript DVE's Scroll/Roll Title tool (make sure you get the upgraded version from the CGM site which includes a scale function).

To quote the Mighty Tom Wolsky:

“...This seems to compensate best for the inability of scale to acts as a proper zoom. Also another advantage of it is that it allows you control the bezier handles for vertical and horizontal position as well as scale all within the keyframe graph. By expanding the graph window you get much better control handle control. Watch out for the keyframe graph bug that sometimes shoots the bezier handle out into infinity...”

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