ken burns effect missing

OpenShot has the ability to pan and zoom a video or image, which is why we
list "ken burns" on our feature list, however it does not work great. We
don't have a dedicated effect for it, and the motion is a bit
jerky/jittery. This is a known issue for the MLT framework, and they will
be making improvements to this in 2010. Once they fix it, we'll implement a
more traditional "ken burns" effects that does all the work for you, so to
speak. Thanks for the question!

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martin G Miller <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> New question #103882 on OpenShot Video Editor:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+question/103882
>
> On your home page, you list the Ken Burns effect as one of the features.
> However, I am unable to find it anywhere in the effects list. Searching
> the help manual refers me back to the effects tab, but there is no Ken Burns
> effect listed. How would I do a true zoom and pan in a still image in
> OpenShot?
>
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Now that 1.4 is out is there an update?

The jerky motion has been improved, if you have a newer version of MLT. Check the OpenShot preferences for "Smooth" scaling options. However, the images are still not scaled from the original image, and are rather stretched and pixelated a bit, so I would say we are still waiting on MLT to provide a better quality ken burns effect. =) Of course, we have started work on our own video editing library, and that will handle the ken burns effect much better... but it's a ways off.

Has something changed in the last two years?

No, but this year with the 2.0.0 I said yes.