Ken Burns Style Virtual Tours

If you've seen Ken Burn movies Civil War, Baseball or Jazz that make extensive use of panning over old still photographs with a movie camera you'll know what I mean by the "Ken Burns" style. I don't know if Ken Burns invented this technique but he makes beautiful use of it in his movies. I am always amazed how good movies that just pan over still photographs look. For interior movies, where nothing moves but the panning camera, panning over a still photo can be as good as shooting the home with a movie camera if the still photos are high quality.

A couple of new products make this style of video available to Realtors for use in Virtual Tours. InTouch Home Tours will produce a virtual tour using this "Ken Burns" technique from your still photographs of a home for less than $50 per tour.

You can create your own movies from your still digital photographs quite inexpensively ($49.95 for the software) using the Photo to Movie product.