Harry Potter Moving Picture Effect
 

I am putting together a Halloween video and for my final shot I want the camera to pan over a bunch of portraits of past presidents of my university. When it gets to the current president, the camera will stop and I want the photo to come to life with him saying, "Boo!" or something similar. Does anyone know how I would achieve this effect? I've seen some tutorials where you will simply transform a video into the frame of the picture, but it didn't look as realistic as the others. Any suggestions? Should I shoot the video in portrait instead of landscape so it fits into the frame better?

Re: Harry Potter Moving Picture Effect
 

Maybe. You may also want to run the frames through photoshop and make it look like more of a painting.

Re: Harry Potter Moving Picture Effect
 

You can try going old-school, and project the image/movie onto/into the picture frame area from behind, then you film the film

Re: Harry Potter Moving Picture Effect
 

And say just no to vertical video