Make a Movie with One Photo
This tutorial describes the basic steps to create a short movie for the web. You will need to have Photo to Movie running and a photo (JPEG is best) available.
- Create a new document by choosing File > New.
- Drag your photo from the Finder to your new document.
- Select multiple key frame view.
- Drag the green key frame by clicking in the middle of it and dragging. Center it vertically at the right side of the photo.
- Drag the red key frame by clicking in an area that is not covered by the green frame and dragging. Center the red frame vertically at the left side of the photo. Your layout should look something like the screenshot below. The blue line pointing from the green frame to the red frame indicates the direction of motion.
- Click on the blue line going from the green frame to the red frame.
- Using the inspector at the right, enter a duration of 5 seconds. Uncheck the pause before and pause after checkboxes.
- Press the play button. Your movie will play.
- After the movie is finished playing, switch back to the multiple key frame view.
- Click on the document info button.
- In the format section, choose Web Movie in the menu at the top.
- In the rendering section, choose Higher Quality.
- Click the Export button and type in a file name for your movie.
- When your movie is finished exporting, open it in the Finder to play the movie using QuickTime Player.