You need to turn off the ken burns effect which is applied randomly automatically.

How to make imovie not zoom in on pictures. Do you ever find yourself adjusting your grip on your iphone just to keep it from zooming in on photos? With this effect, the camera appears to sweep across and zoom in and out on the photo. If so, you’re not alone.

Select all your pics in the timeline (so they have yellow borders) click on adjust. Open your imovie program and select the imovie project you wish to add the zoom effect to. If there are people in the photo, imovie uses face detection to keep faces within the viewing area.

After you create a new project, go to file > project properties (command+j) and change initial photo placement to. In this apple imovie tutorial for macos, i show you how to zoom in on an image or picture. You will be using the cropping tool to do this.

You can adjust the ken burns effect so that the motion starts and ends on the parts of the image you. You can change the zoom level by pinching the screen with two fingers or by using the slider at the bottom of the screen. Open imovie on your ipad/iphone.