Welcome Kayiness. 🙂

It's really quite a simple effect if you have the right tools. In Premiere or FCP it's just a matter of putting the image on the timeline, changing its position further along, and you'll see the program tween it for you in playback. In iMovie and Movie Maker I believe there are some "Easing" effects which zoom in or out on the image, but I'm not sure there are scrolling effects like you've described.

You could also replicate it using a photo editor, but it would be extremely tedious. You'd just be changing the image position a tiny bit each time, exporting the single images, and stringing them all together in your video editor.

Hey thanks. I am using adobe after effects. I haven't figured it out yet but i definitely don't want to do it the long way moving the picture bit by bit. MM1 doesn't have a scrolling effect, only zooming.

The effect is probably the most simple and common one for animating still photos. In iMovie, it is called the Ken Burns effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_Effec t" - he was the first to do panning and zooming with photos). The clip you linked to was most likely done using the 'Ken Burns' preset effect from iMovie. In fact, when you create a movie from a set of pictures inside iPhoto, the default effect is this one (in other words, if you just click on 'Slide Show', this is what you get automatically, without touching anything).

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Hey thanks. I am using adobe after effects. I haven't figured it out yet but i definitely don't want to do it the long way moving the picture bit by bit. MM1 doesn't have a scrolling effect, only zooming.

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Oh you're using After Effects? Man, then the question's what you CAN'T do. 😉

It's the same thing as using a powerful NLE, super simple. Just throw the image on the timeline, add a keyframe at the beginning, and add another keyframe at the end and change the image's position on the keyframe. It's drag and drop simple really. Just got to make sure to have keyframes.