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What is the Ken Burns effect?

The Ken Burns effect is a slow zoom and pan across a still image that adds motion, named after the documentary filmmaker who popularised it.

Updated October 20262 min readZoomr 1.15.1

Zoomr uses the same idea for screenshots: draw boxes on a screenshot and it animates from the full image into each detail. See turning a screenshot into a video.