Which video editor for this effect? (a noob question)

[thea]

I'm extremely sorry to admit, but I'm a complete noob at video editing and I basically have no knowledge about video creating plus English is not my native language, but I still need to make an amateur video for school. And I wondered, if any of you guys know how to make this effect (link below) of like getting deeper into images and what programs do I need? Is it even possible for me to do it in 1 month, if I start learning all this from a complete zero?




THANKS!

[Cornucopia]

That's really just a series of overlapped Ken Burns effects (aka Panning around and Zooming in on stills or video) enhanced with transparency effects and cutout masks.

All this can be done in a quite straightforward way with any good compositor software (AfterEffects, Combustion, Nuke, etc.) It COULD be done with a standard professional editor (Premiere Pro, Vegas, FCP, AVID, etc), but would take many layers of video and would be harder to set up and manipulate. There is also alot of motion acceleration/deceleration curves, which those editors don't have in abundance unless you're using a specialty Pan/Zoom effect/plugin that incorporates the feature.

If you're a pro at editing (not even counting compositing) you ought to be able to do this in less than a month, easy. Probably less than a week (if you work at it 8-5 all week). If I already had the assets and used AfterEffects, it would probably take me 1 - 1 1/2 days to get it "just right" (mainly because I'm rusty).

Scott

[thea]

Thanks, I'll just get the After Effects and see what I can do. This doesn't sound that hopeless...

[guns1inger]

Most of it is pretty standard "Ken Burns" type stuff, but the intro is a bit more complicated. It is covered briefly here : https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/319143-Making-a-Sr-Class-DVD-slideshow?p=1979435&vi...=1#post1979435

[EddyH]

An odd thought - might some cheap all-in-one or even OEM software be a better bet? They often have options for making slideshows (out of sets of holiday photos etc) and I wouldn't put it past them to include a Ken Burns-izer kind of option, even if it's just "set start position/zoom, set end position/zoom". I think the otherwise largely-broken copy of Pinnacle I tried to use last month did something like that. I certainly had a progressive zoom into a PPT slide going on at one point without having really meant to (just wanted a static one).

[guns1inger]

If you just want the ken burns pan and zoom stuff then DVD Slideshow GUI or even Microsoft Photostory can do it with ease. The pseudo-3D, multi-layered approach takes something more.