It’s unclear why Apple chose to implement the feature this way, but in iMovie 3 the Ken Burns Effect (pan and zoom) is applied to every still image you import into your project. Fortunately, there are a few workarounds:
- In the Photos pane, set the Zoom value to 1.00 for both the Start and Finish States.
- After importing a photo (from the Photos pane, from the Desktop, or by using iMovie’s Import command), hit Command-period to cancel rendering of the effect.
- To turn off the behavior altogether, you need to tweak some settings files. Fire up a text editor and do the following (much thanks to TidBITS reader Larry Wink for pointing this out):
Open the ‘com.apple.iMovie3.plist’ file in the User/Library/Preferences folder and change:
<key>Option autoApplyPanZoomToImportedStills: %d
</key>
<true/>
to
<key>Option autoApplyPanZoomToImportedStills: %d
</key>
<false/>
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I mentioned this problem (quoting you) in my column.
Oops URL: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134653528_ptmacc15.html
I saw that, thanks for the mention.
(See, sometimes I even actually read your Seattle Times columns! )