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80-403: The feature enables a widely used technique of embedding still photographs in motion pictures, displayed with slow zooming and panning effects, and fading transitions between frames. The technique is principally used when film or video material is not available. Action is given to still photographs by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. For example, in

160-399: A r c s e c ) . {\displaystyle d(\mathrm {pc} )=1/p(\mathrm {arcsec} ).} For example, the distance to Proxima Centauri is 1/0.7687 = 1.3009 parsecs (4.243 ly). On Earth, a coincidence rangefinder or parallax rangefinder can be used to find distance to a target. In surveying , the problem of resection explores angular measurements from

240-612: A cel that is meant to be held and panned is called a "hold cel" and marked in production with the word " tome " ( 止メ ). For example, the American studio Filmation frequently used panning as a way to cut costs and fill time. Burns has credited documentary filmmaker Jerome Liebling for teaching him how still photographs could be incorporated into documentary films. He has also cited the 1957 National Film Board of Canada documentary City of Gold , co-directed by Colin Low and Wolf Koenig , as

320-440: A graticule , not in actual contact with the display on an oscilloscope , etc. When viewed through a stereo viewer, aerial picture pair offers a pronounced stereo effect of landscape and buildings. High buildings appear to "keel over" in the direction away from the center of the photograph. Measurements of this parallax are used to deduce the height of the buildings, provided that flying height and baseline distances are known. This

400-501: A Full-Screen Library Browser with which the user can find and examine all of his or her video in one place. iMovie '11 (version 9.0) was released on October 20, 2010, as part of the iLife '11 package. It has the ability to make trailers for home movies, more control over audio, instant replay and flash and hold effects, facial recognition, news themes, and the ability to watch the video on a Mac, iPad, iPhone/iPod touch, or Apple TV, as well as sharing on Facebook and YouTube. It now supports

480-409: A basis for other distance measurements in astronomy forming the higher rungs of the ladder. Parallax also affects optical instruments such as rifle scopes, binoculars , microscopes , and twin-lens reflex cameras that view objects from slightly different angles. Many animals, along with humans, have two eyes with overlapping visual fields that use parallax to gain depth perception ; this process

560-442: A boy". In a philosophic/geometric sense: an apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight. The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view. In contemporary writing, parallax can also be the same story, or a similar story from approximately the same timeline, from one book, told from

640-675: A different perspective in another book. The word and concept feature prominently in James Joyce 's 1922 novel, Ulysses . Orson Scott Card also used the term when referring to Ender's Shadow as compared to Ender's Game . The metaphor is invoked by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek in his 2006 book The Parallax View , borrowing the concept of "parallax view" from the Japanese philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani . Žižek notes The philosophical twist to be added (to parallax), of course,

720-487: A feature which allowed users to import iMovie projects from iOS to macOS. Similarly, if a project ends up requiring more advanced editing than iMovie can provide, iMovie projects can be imported in Final Cut Pro X . iMovie allows for the creation of movie trailers through included templates. The trailers feature in iMovie allows for clips to be easily dropped into the timeline which consists of storyboard panes which have

800-503: A greater stellar distance, useful distances can be measured only for stars which are near enough to have a parallax larger than a few times the precision of the measurement. In the 1990s, for example, the Hipparcos mission obtained parallaxes for over a hundred thousand stars with a precision of about a milliarcsecond , providing useful distances for stars out to a few hundred parsecs. The Hubble Space Telescope 's Wide Field Camera 3 has

880-522: A known baseline for determining an unknown point's coordinates. The most important fundamental distance measurements in astronomy come from trigonometric parallax, as applied in the stellar parallax method . As the Earth orbits the Sun, the position of nearby stars will appear to shift slightly against the more distant background. These shifts are angles in an isosceles triangle , with 2 AU (the distance between

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960-821: A label that lists which type of clip should be placed in each pane. The template also includes an outline for adding titles and credits to the trailer. iMovie can be used to create app previews for use in Apple's App Store. App previews allow developers to give users a brief overview of an app through video rather than images. macOS Mojave is the last version of macOS to offer built-in compatibility with many older media codecs , including RealVideo , DivX , Sorenson 3 , and FlashPix . Support for these codecs had been implemented in 32-bit macOS components, which Apple did not update to 64-bit, and removed entirely in macOS Catalina . In March 2019, seven months before Catalina's release, Apple released an iMovie update that notified users about

1040-477: A large number of built-in sound effects, and also has the ability to record a voiceover or add a music soundtrack. It also has the ability to manipulate and enhance the audio of a project by reducing background noise and boosting audio levels of quiet clips. iMovie projects can export finished movies or clips to QuickTime file format (.mp4), or export single frames as JPEGs. With iMovie having versions on Apple's mobile and desktop operating systems Apple introduced

1120-587: A number of digital photo cameras with HD video recording feature. To facilitate this, iMovie includes the Apple Intermediate Codec on the system as a QuickTime component. iMovie transcodes HD video upon import using this codec and stores it in the QuickTime file format. iMovie 6 was released in January 2006 as part of the iLife '06 suite, and was also originally optionally included with iLife '08 as

1200-676: A photo slideshow option also labelled "Ken Burns Effect". On the Windows platform, AVS Video Editor , Windows Movie Maker , Pinnacle Studio , Serif MoviePlus , Avid Media Composer , Sony Vegas Studio (and Movie), Ulead VideoStudio , Adobe Premiere , and PicturesToExe also have pan and zoom features built-in; otherwise, it is still available through third-party extensions. Microsoft Photo Story creates videos with both random and customisable Ken Burns Effects automatically from selected images. ProShow Gold/Producer from Photodex and PhotoFilmStrip (free applications) also come with this effect. On

1280-409: A photograph of a baseball team, one might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to a rest on the player the narrator is discussing. By employing simulated parallax , a two-dimensional image can appear as 3D , with the viewpoint seeming to enter the picture and move among the figures. The effect can be used as a transition between clips as well. For example, to segue from one person in

1360-685: A prior example of the technique. Winner of the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award , City of Gold used animation camera techniques to slowly pan and zoom across archival still pictures of Canada's Klondike Gold Rush . America's television audience had seen extensive use of the technique in NBC's Meet Mr. Lincoln , first telecast 11 February 1959. This one-hour Abraham Lincoln documentary used period photographs, illustrations, artwork, newspapers and documents "animated" by

1440-444: A range of video effects and tools like color correction and image stabilization , but is designed to be accessible to users with little or no video editing experience. iMovie's professional equivalent is Apple's Final Cut Pro X . iMovie was originally released in 1999 for Mac OS 8 , and bundled with the iMac DV . With version 3, iMovie became part of Apple's now-defunct iLife suite, alongside other multimedia apps. iMovie '08

1520-408: A ruler marked on its top surface, the thickness of the ruler will separate its markings from the ticks. If viewed from a position not exactly perpendicular to the ruler, the apparent position will shift and the reading will be less accurate than the ruler is capable of. A similar error occurs when reading the position of a pointer against a scale in an instrument such as an analog multimeter . To help

1600-470: A similar magnitude range, a mean parallax can be derived from statistical analysis of the proper motions relative to their radial velocities. This statistical parallax method is useful for measuring the distances of bright stars beyond 50 parsecs and giant variable stars , including Cepheids and the RR Lyrae variables . The motion of the Sun through space provides a longer baseline that will increase

1680-433: A star from Earth , astronomers use the principle of parallax. Here, the term parallax is the semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star, as observed when Earth is on opposite sides of the Sun in its orbit. These distances form the lowest rung of what is called "the cosmic distance ladder ", the first in a succession of methods by which astronomers determine the distances to celestial objects, serving as

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1760-530: A story-telling sequence for Arch Oboler's 1950 Columbia feature Five , and have for more than a decade continued development of this form—in my independent feature The Naked Eye (1956), the featurette The True Story of the Civil War (an Academy Award winner, 1956), Warner Brothers' The James Dean Story (1957), and most recently [...] for [...] ABC-TV's Winston Churchill, the Valiant Years . In film editing ,

1840-542: A substitution for iMovie '08 (due to the new version's incompatibility with older Power PC Macintosh computers). However, this option was removed after iLife '09 was released. It was integrated with iPhoto , iTunes , iDVD , GarageBand and iWeb . iMovie HD 6 was designed for ease of use, and included new themes. Themes allow the user to drop movie clips or photos into professionally designed backdrops. Each theme included full-motion graphic bumpers and transitions. iMovie HD 6 also added real-time effects, which took advantage of

1920-523: A time." Features removed included the classic timeline, the ability to create DVD chapter markers, support for plugins, and in-timeline audio adjustment and control. iMovie '08 imported a much more limited set of video codecs and metadata formats than previous versions of iMovie or the then-current version QuickTime Player. For example, QuickTime Player could be extended to support the FLIP Video 3ivx MPEG-4 codec, but iMovie '08 could not. iMovie '08 also removed

2000-507: A velocity relative to the Sun that causes proper motion (transverse across the sky) and radial velocity (motion toward or away from the Sun). The former is determined by plotting the changing position of the stars over many years, while the latter comes from measuring the Doppler shift of the star's spectrum caused by motion along the line of sight. For a group of stars with the same spectral class and

2080-427: A video clip, stabilize shaky videos, add video transitions (such as fade, doorway, slide, swap, mosaic, cube, and page curls), and changing the speed (speed up or slow down) of clips. There are multi-clip video effects, such as creating a cutaway, using a green/blue screen to cut out a subject and replace the background with a different clip, creating a split-screen, and picture-in-picture effect. iMovie contains

2160-470: A video was shot. iMovie '09 also introduced simple implementations of more advanced features such as picture-in-picture and Chroma keying . It also improved editing with a precision cut editor and a clip trimmer, improved support for hard drive-based cameras such as the Flip Mino, added some new titles and transitions, and added full iDVD support (which was unavailable in iMovie '08). In addition, it introduced

2240-401: Is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those two lines. Due to foreshortening , nearby objects show a larger parallax than farther objects, so parallax can be used to determine distances. To measure large distances, such as the distance of a planet or

2320-399: Is a key component of the process of photogrammetry . Parallax error can be seen when taking photos with many types of cameras, such as twin-lens reflex cameras and those including viewfinders (such as rangefinder cameras ). In such cameras, the eye sees the subject through different optics (the viewfinder, or a second lens) than the one through which the photo is taken. As the viewfinder

2400-467: Is a special case of the principle of triangulation , which states that one can solve for all the sides and angles in a network of triangles if, in addition to all the angles in the network, the length of at least one side has been measured. Thus, the careful measurement of the length of one baseline can fix the scale of an entire triangulation network. In parallax, the triangle is extremely long and narrow, and by measuring both its shortest side (the motion of

2480-465: Is also an issue in image stitching , such as for panoramas. Parallax affects sighting devices of ranged weapons in many ways. On sights fitted on small arms and bows , etc., the perpendicular distance between the sight and the weapon's launch axis (e.g. the bore axis of a gun)—generally referred to as " sight height "—can induce significant aiming errors when shooting at close range, particularly when shooting at small targets. This parallax error

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2560-463: Is always already inscribed into the perceived object itself, in the guise of its "blind spot," that which is "in the object more than the object itself," the point from which the object itself returns the gaze. "Sure the picture is in my eye, but I am also in the picture"... IMovie iMovie is a free video editing application made by Apple for the Mac , the iPhone , and the iPad . It includes

2640-452: Is an acknowledged classic. Paul Haesaerts made Rubens in 1948. Americans Paul Falkenberg and Lewis Jacobs made Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg entirely out of nineteenth-century engravings, 1950. Ben Berg and Herbert Block of Hollywood have for years been making a series of story-telling dramas out of paintings and prints, including a life story of Goya. I myself pioneered the dramatic use of still photographs (rather than paintings or prints) in

2720-615: Is compensated for (when needed) via calculations that also take in other variables such as bullet drop , windage , and the distance at which the target is expected to be. Sight height can be used to advantage when "sighting in" rifles for field use. A typical hunting rifle (.222 with telescopic sights) sighted in at 75m will still be useful from 50 to 200 m (55 to 219 yd) without needing further adjustment. In some reticled optical instruments such as telescopes , microscopes or in telescopic sights ("scopes") used on small arms and theodolites , parallax can create problems when

2800-449: Is exploited also in wiggle stereoscopy , computer graphics that provide depth cues through viewpoint-shifting animation rather than through binocular vision. Parallax arises due to a change in viewpoint occurring due to the motion of the observer, of the observed, or both. What is essential is relative motion. By observing parallax, measuring angles , and using geometry , one can determine distance . Distance measurement by parallax

2880-405: Is known as stereopsis . In computer vision the effect is used for computer stereo vision , and there is a device called a parallax rangefinder that uses it to find the range, and in some variations also altitude to a target. A simple everyday example of parallax can be seen in the dashboards of motor vehicles that use a needle-style mechanical speedometer . When viewed from directly in front,

2960-408: Is often found above the lens of the camera, photos with parallax error are often slightly lower than intended, the classic example being the image of a person with their head cropped off. This problem is addressed in single-lens reflex cameras , in which the viewfinder sees through the same lens through which the photo is taken (with the aid of a movable mirror), thus avoiding parallax error. Parallax

3040-478: Is that the observed distance is not simply "subjective", since the same object that exists "out there" is seen from two different stances or points of view. It is rather that, as Hegel would have put it, subject and object are inherently "mediated" so that an " epistemological " shift in the subject's point of view always reflects an " ontological " shift in the object itself. Or—to put it in Lacanese —the subject's gaze

3120-521: The AVCHD Lite format. Apple worked with Abbey Road Studios in London, England, to bring original music/film scores to iMovie '11. The music is most notably used in the "trailers" feature provided by the software. On January 6, 2011, Apple made iMovie '11 (along with Aperture , the iWork suite, and the rest of the iLife suite) available on the newly-released Mac App Store . Prior versions of iMovie had

3200-636: The iMac DV . Both iMovie and the iMac DV were announced at Apple's special event on October 5, 1999 at the Flint Center. iMovie 2 added the ability to interleave video and audio tracks on the timeline. iMovie 3 was plagued by performance issues and bugs. iMovie 4 introduced nondestructive video editing. In prior versions of iMovie, trimming a clip removed the trimmed portion permanently. Beginning in version 4, iMovie introduced Direct Trimming, implementing editing functionality closer to professional-grade editing software. Beginning with version 5, iMovie

3280-430: The "Magic iMovie" feature, which attempted to automate the whole process of video editing, by allowing a common transition to be added between scenes, a music track to be synchronised with the video and a DVD to be created with the accompanying iDVD software. Later versions added support for footage from AVCHD camcorders, and H.264 -compressed video from MPEG-4 or QuickTime File Format files (.mov), as generated by

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3360-504: The Mac platform, programs such as Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, iMovie, Adobe Premiere also have the ability. Adobe and Apple products (excluding iMovie) allow the user to set keyframes to further customize the process. The mobile video-editing app KineMaster (for Android and iPhone) has "Ken Burns/Crop and Pan" as the default setting for photo cropping. The effect is found in various screensavers and slideshows, such as Apple. Windows PCs have

3440-545: The ability to export movies to the YouTube video sharing website. iMovie 08 was criticized due to its drastic abandonment of some iMovie HD 6 features. Former New York Times reviewer David Pogue said "iMovie '08 is an utter bafflement... incapable of the more sophisticated editing that the old iMovie made so enjoyable...All visual effects are gone — even basic options like slow motion, reverse motion, fast motion, and black-and-white. And you can't have more than one project open at

3520-455: The ability to import DV footage. As a result, all resulting videos had lossy compression applied and there was no facility for managing full format video. The peculiar lack of QuickTime support means QuickTime Pro could edit a larger range of video than iMovie '08. Apple released iMovie HD 6 as a free download to those who had purchased iMovie '08. However, in response to the release of the subsequent newer version of iMovie '09, Apple removed

3600-525: The ability to split an event so that the unwanted portion of a long event could be deleted in order to save memory. This feature was removed in iMovie '11 and is no longer available in iMovie or Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). But in FCPX, as a workaround, you can cut out all but the desired part of a project, export that project in ProRes 422 format, and then import that export. This can be used as a smaller source clip instead of

3680-519: The accuracy of parallax measurements, known as secular parallax . For stars in the Milky Way disk, this corresponds to a mean baseline of 4 AU per year, while for halo stars the baseline is 40 AU per year. After several decades, the baseline can be orders of magnitude greater than the Earth–Sun baseline used for traditional parallax. However, secular parallax introduces a higher level of uncertainty because

3760-627: The camera on an elaborate flatbed motion picture apparatus, and the descriptive term "stills in motion" for the technique was used in NBC's publicity and in the trade by the early 1960s. In a 1961 letter to The New York Times , photographer and filmmaker Louis Clyde Stoumen surveyed earlier uses of the technique by himself and others: Curt Oertel made his Michaelangelo , with important storytelling use of still material, in 1940 (released as Robert Flaherty's The Titan around 1949). Belgium's Henri Starc began imparting dramatic film form to still images in 1936, and his lyric World of Paul Delvaux (1947)

3840-407: The change, and automatically converted these older formats to newer codecs. At WWDC 2010, Steve Jobs announced that iMovie would be released on iOS later that month, with the basic features of the Mac version. The first iPhone version was released on June 23, 2010 and was only compatible with the simultaneously-released iPhone 4 , the first iPhone that could record HD video. It was released for

3920-456: The computer's graphics processing unit to perform some effects without rendering. It also introduced real-time titling, enhanced audio tools and effects, the ability to have multiple projects open at once, video podcasts and blogs (using integration with iWeb), and a refined look based on iTunes 5 and 6. iMovie '08 (version 7.0) was released in August 2007 as a part of the iLife '08 suite. iMovie '08

4000-462: The deviation of the object from sphericity. Binary stars which are both visual and spectroscopic binaries also can have their distance estimated by similar means, and do not suffer from the above geometric uncertainty. The common characteristic to these methods is that a measurement of angular motion is combined with a measurement of the absolute velocity (usually obtained via the Doppler effect ). The distance estimate comes from computing how far

4080-496: The distance obtained for the Hyades has historically been an important step in the distance ladder. Other individual objects can have fundamental distance estimates made for them under special circumstances. If the expansion of a gas cloud, like a supernova remnant or planetary nebula , can be observed over time, then an expansion parallax distance to that cloud can be estimated. Those measurements however suffer from uncertainties in

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4160-606: The download in late January 2009 while also reducing the $ 299 price tag for Final Cut Express to $ 199. Several of the features removed from iMovie '08 that were previously included with iMovie HD 6 have been restored into iMovie '09 and, more recently, iMovie '11. iMovie '09 (version 8.0) was released January 2009 as part of the iLife '09 package. It introduced some new features and restored some features from previous versions of iMovie, including basic video effects (such as fast/slow motion and aged film) and image stabilization as well as travel map functions for marking locations where

4240-851: The earlier version, but instead moved it to a folder where it could still be used. iMovie 10.1 was released on October 13, 2015. It added support for 4K video editing and included a major user interface overhaul, as well as the removal of some peripheral features. Later updates to iMovie 10.1 fixed bugs and made incremental changes. Versions 10.1.12 and 10.1.16 work on OS X Catalina 10.15.7. iMovie 10.2, released on November 12, 2020, became natively compatible with Apple silicon Macs, and added new backgrounds. Versions 10.2.3 and 10.2.5 work on OS X Catalina 10.15.7. iMovie 10.3 and later updates added support for Cinematic Mode, Magic Movie and Storyboard, and made performance improvements. Versions 10.3 and above require macOS 11 Big Sur. iMovie includes options to modify and enhance video color settings, crop and rotate of

4320-539: The extreme positions of Earth's orbit around the Sun) making the base leg of the triangle and the distance to the star being the long equal-length legs. The amount of shift is quite small, even for the nearest stars, measuring 1 arcsecond for an object at 1 parsec's distance (3.26 light-years ), and thereafter decreasing in angular amount as the distance increases. Astronomers usually express distances in units of parsecs (parallax arcseconds); light-years are used in popular media. Because parallax becomes smaller for

4400-452: The filmmaker's permission to create the term "Ken Burns Effect" for Apple's iMovie video production software zoom and pan effect (the description had been Apple's internal working title while the feature was in development). Burns initially declined, saying that he did not allow his name to be used for commercial purposes, but finally he had Jobs give him some equipment (which he later donated for nonprofit use) in exchange for permission to use

4480-1116: The focus of the target image at varying distances into the same optical plane of the reticle (or vice versa). Many low-tier telescopic sights may have no parallax compensation because in practice they can still perform very acceptably without eliminating parallax shift. In this case, the scope is often set fixed at a designated parallax-free distance that best suits their intended usage. Typical standard factory parallax-free distances for hunting scopes are 100  yd (or 90 m) to make them suited for hunting shots that rarely exceed 300  yd/m. Some competition and military-style scopes without parallax compensation may be adjusted to be parallax free at ranges up to 300  yd/m to make them better suited for aiming at longer ranges. Scopes for guns with shorter practical ranges, such as airguns , rimfire rifles , shotguns , and muzzleloaders , will have parallax settings for shorter distances, commonly 50 m (55 yd) for rimfire scopes and 100 m (110 yd) for shotguns and muzzleloaders. Airgun scopes are very often found with adjustable parallax, usually in

4560-407: The form of an adjustable objective (or "AO" for short) design, and may adjust down to as near as 3 metres (3.3 yd). Non-magnifying reflector or "reflex" sights can be theoretically "parallax free". But since these sights use parallel collimated light this is only true when the target is at infinity. At finite distances, eye movement perpendicular to the device will cause parallax movement in

4640-501: The iPad on March 11, 2011, to coincide with the release of the iPad 2 . iMovie gained support for 4K resolution in version 2.2, switched to using the Metal graphics API in version 2.2.5, external displays in version 2.2.6, and green screen effects in version 2.2.7. iMovie 3, released in April 2022, gained pre-made templates, called Storyboards, to simplify the movie creation process, and

4720-674: The most common format used by digital cameras. A new feature called "skimming" for quickly previewing video in the library at a user controlled speed was added, and so was a feature that allows the user to highlight parts of video clips just like highlighting text. iMovie 08 also had the ability to add more than two layers of background sound, including multiple music, narration and sounds; previous versions could play multiple tracks but could display only two extra audio tracks. It included more exportation formats, including iPhone-sized video. It also supported non-tape-based HD video, such as AVCHD and footage from DVD and HDD camcorders. iMovie '08 also had

4800-408: The object must be to make its observed absolute velocity appear with the observed angular motion. Measurements made by viewing the position of some marker relative to something to be measured are subject to parallax error if the marker is some distance away from the object of measurement and not viewed from the correct position. For example, if measuring the distance between two ticks on a line with

4880-433: The observer) and the small top angle (always less than 1  arcsecond , leaving the other two close to 90  degrees), the length of the long sides (in practice considered to be equal) can be determined. In astronomy, assuming the angle is small, the distance to a star (measured in parsecs ) is the reciprocal of the parallax (measured in arcseconds ): d ( p c ) = 1 / p (

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4960-559: The option of Greg Stitt's "MotionPicture" and Gregg Tavares's "Nostalgic", among others. The effect can also be seen in the N73 smartphone by Nokia , applied to the slideshows the phone creates from the pictures stored in it. Specific seventh-generation video game consoles also feature versions of this effect, including Nintendo's Wii Photo Channel , Sony's PlayStation 3 and within the Last.fm app for Xbox 360 . Steve Jobs contacted Burns to obtain

5040-461: The original larger one. iMovie 10.0 was released on October 22, 2013, by Apple Inc. This version of iMovie was a complete redesign with more options to share a movie, more movie and trailer theme options from iMovie for iOS, easier to make picture-in-pictures, cutaways, side-by-sides etc., more realistic green-screen effects and easier refinements. Because it was not compatible with projects created with iMovie 9, upgrading to iMovie 10 did not replace

5120-456: The potential to provide a precision of 20 to 40 micro arcseconds, enabling reliable distance measurements up to 5,000 parsecs (16,000 ly) for small numbers of stars. The Gaia space mission provided similarly accurate distances to most stars brighter than 15th magnitude. Distances can be measured within 10% as far as the Galactic Center , about 30,000 light years away. Stars have

5200-435: The process by which the brain exploits the parallax due to the different views from the eye to gain depth perception and estimate distances to objects. Animals also use motion parallax , in which the animals (or just the head) move to gain different viewpoints. For example, pigeons (whose eyes do not have overlapping fields of view and thus cannot use stereopsis) bob their heads up and down to see depth. The motion parallax

5280-463: The relative velocity of observed stars is an additional unknown. When applied to samples of multiple stars, the uncertainty can be reduced; the uncertainty is inversely proportional to the square root of the sample size. Moving cluster parallax is a technique where the motions of individual stars in a nearby star cluster can be used to find the distance to the cluster. Only open clusters are near enough for this technique to be useful. In particular

5360-416: The resultant apparent "floating" movements of the reticle over the target image when the user moves his/her head/eye laterally (up/down or left/right) behind the sight, i.e. an error where the reticle does not stay aligned with the user's optical axis . Some firearm scopes are equipped with a parallax compensation mechanism, which consists of a movable optical element that enables the optical system to shift

5440-568: The reticle image in exact relationship to the eye position in the cylindrical column of light created by the collimating optics. Firearm sights, such as some red dot sights , try to correct for this via not focusing the reticle at infinity, but instead at some finite distance, a designed target range where the reticle will show very little movement due to parallax. Some manufacturers market reflector sight models they call "parallax free", but this refers to an optical system that compensates for off axis spherical aberration , an optical error induced by

5520-460: The reticle is not coincident with the focal plane of the target image. This is because when the reticle and the target are not at the same focus, the optically corresponded distances being projected through the eyepiece are also different, and the user's eye will register the difference in parallaxes between the reticle and the target (whenever eye position changes) as a relative displacement on top of each other. The term parallax shift refers to

5600-474: The soundtrack." Burns says that on occasion, strangers will stop him on the street to enthusiastically describe how they use the Ken Burns Effect on their Apple software or ask him questions. Burns, who writes his speeches longhand and calls himself a " Luddite ", says he does not really understand what these Apple users are telling him and tries his best to make a quick escape. Parallax Parallax

5680-406: The speed may show exactly 60, but when viewed from the passenger seat, the needle may appear to show a slightly different speed due to the angle of viewing combined with the displacement of the needle from the plane of the numerical dial. Because the eyes of humans and other animals are in different positions on the head, they present different views simultaneously. This is the basis of stereopsis ,

5760-458: The spherical mirror used in the sight that can cause the reticle position to diverge off the sight's optical axis with change in eye position. Because of the positioning of field or naval artillery , each gun has a slightly different perspective of the target relative to the location of the fire-control system . When aiming guns at the target, the fire control system must compensate for parallax to assure that fire from each gun converges on

5840-421: The story to another, a clip might open with a close-up of one person in a photo, then zoom out so that another person in the photo becomes visible. The zooming and panning across photographs gives the feeling of motion, and keeps the viewer visually engaged. Many styles of limited animation , such as Japanese anime , also use still-image panning to compensate for a lack of movement on-screen. In anime production,

5920-526: The target. Several of Mark Renn 's sculptural works play with parallax, appearing abstract until viewed from a specific angle. One such sculpture is The Darwin Gate (pictured) in Shrewsbury , England, which from a certain angle appears to form a dome, according to Historic England , in "the form of a Saxon helmet with a Norman window... inspired by features of St Mary's Church which was attended by Charles Darwin as

6000-461: The technique may be achieved through the use of a rostrum camera , although today it is more common to use digital editing. Virtually all non-linear editing systems provide a tool to implement the simplistic effect, although only some software, such as iMovie and Openshot for Linux , specifically call it a Ken Burns Effect; it is usually simply referred to as pan and zoom. Final Cut Pro , Apple TV and Apple's iMovie video editing program include

6080-484: The term in Apple products. In February 2014, Burns stated in his AMA ("Ask Me Anything", a question-and-answer interactive interview) on Reddit that Steve Jobs "asked my permission. I said yes. And six billion saved wedding, bar mitzvahs, vacation slideshows later, it's still going. But our attempt to 'wake the dead' relies on a much more nuanced and complicated relationship to the photograph (the DNA of storytelling), as well as

6160-411: The user avoid this problem, the scale is sometimes printed above a narrow strip of mirror , and the user's eye is positioned so that the pointer obscures its reflection, guaranteeing that the user's line of sight is perpendicular to the mirror and therefore to the scale. The same effect alters the speed read on a car's speedometer by a driver in front of it and a passenger off to the side, values read from

6240-514: Was a complete redesign and rewrite of iMovie. It had much better HD output, and more formats to convert to. This was limited, however, by an undocumented restriction on supported codecs. iPhoto uses the QuickTime library and can create thumbnails for all QuickTime supported formats, but most of these cannot be used by iMovie '08. Some of the formats that iMovie '08 was able to import will not be recognized when they are added to an iPhoto library. Motion JPEG -encoded AVI files were recognized, and were

6320-471: Was a complete rewrite, and lacked many of the features of previous versions, which returned in iMovie '09 and iMovie '11. The iOS version of iMovie came out in 2010. iMovie is pre-installed on all new Macs, iPhones, and iPads, and is available for free on the App Store. The first version of iMovie was released in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire -enabled consumer Mac model,

6400-482: Was renamed to iMovie HD, to highlight its new support for HDV (720p and 1080i) camcorders . It gained features to integrate it with the rest of the iLife suite, with toolbox buttons allowing the importing of images from iPhoto , music from iTunes and the setting of chapter markers ready for exporting to iDVD . iMovie HD 5 imported MJPEG files as DV by default, which introduces noise; MJPEG files are cryptically lumped with "iSight" files in this version. It gained

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