Ken Burns on a still
A photo gains depth and time.
- Use when
- Photo galleries, case montages, archive material.
Shown with: Slow zoom in. Clip by AI Camera Movements, shown with permission.
Prompt instructions
Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is ken Burns on a still: a photo gains depth and time. How it works: a slow push and pan across the still photo, which resolves from blurred and dim to sharp as it appears. It is right for: photo galleries, case montages, archive material. In our teardown of 30 showreel templates the repeated signatures were a slow Ken Burns on every photo and a blur-in on photo reveals. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
The same prompt works in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
