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Picture Effects in FCE

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I'm looking for ideas...creative ideas pertaining to pictures.

I'm working on a 50th birthday for a special friend. Indeed, there are many pictures. I'm getting VERY bored with simple slow zoom ins and zoom outs.
Is there anything I can do using Photoshop, FCE, Illustrator (yes, very basic programs) to make the pictures in my video visually entertaining?

Thanks a lot!:D
 
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I think you have to be careful with special effects. If you use them too much they become distracting. Slow zoom or "ken burns effect" may seem boring to you (especially because you are the one editing it and you see the movie over and over) but to the birthday boy or girl and the rest of the audience will be paying more attention to who is in the pictures and what they are doing instead of the visual effect applied to the picture. Special effects work if they have a purpose but if used to much they get kind of old.

That's my 2 cents
 
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I completely agree with the previous poster, always be tasteful with your effects, keep it simple stupid :)
 

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