A little help, please

jazzmaster wrote on 8/24/2010, 1:10 PM
For years now I have done a weekly cable show and when I tape it I do it all in a wide shot. When I want to vary the position in editing, I have snipped the tape where I want to change and go to pan and crop and cropped the scene for a close up--which is what I want. When I play the cut, it jumps from the wide scene to the close up

Now, for some reason, when I click on the right side of the cut and go to pan and crop and crop my picture, when it plays, the picture MOVES from the previous scene to the next.

Obvioiusly, I've clicked on something that's making this happen. How can I stop it and go back to the old way I've been doing things.
Thank you,
Burt

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jazzmaster wrote on 8/24/2010, 1:26 PM
i need to add that when I went back into pan and crop, there was a keyframe there. Before, there never was a keyframe. I just cut from colse-up to medium shots to wide shots off the same tape and everthing cut nicely with no movement. So I guess, how do I lose the making of a keyframe when I crop my event on the timeline.
Burt
jrazz wrote on 8/24/2010, 1:41 PM
Anytime you pan or crop a keyframe will be created. What you need to do is cut/split (hit the "s" key) where you want the zoom to take place and then hit the "s" key again where you want it to zoom back out or pan another way.

The keyframes have always been there but I would bet you were cutting at the point you did the change.

Another method would be to add two keyframes really close to one another and make the second one the one that changes.

Another method would be to make the keyframe a Hold keyframe (right click the keyframe) and that will make the change instantaneous.

I hope this helps.

j razz
jazzmaster wrote on 8/24/2010, 1:51 PM
The right-clicking the key frame is the one that works! Somehow, I just started doing it differently, I guess. My 77 years a showing!! Many thanks!
jrazz wrote on 8/24/2010, 2:08 PM
No problem. Glad I could help.

j razz
jazzmaster wrote on 8/24/2010, 3:43 PM
Actually, I may embrace this "new" technique" and use it to zoom in or rack out as a change instead of a noticable cut. Have to try that.