a weird thing...

donald_cady wrote on 3/23/2007, 8:19 PM
I don't know what I did, but all of a sudden the movie I'm working appears to have zoomed in slightly on all images and film clips whenever I preview the movie in preview (auto). I switched to different previews but it still looks the same. It wasn't doing this a day ago. Even clips without keyframes are slightly zoomed in, and the images and film clips with keyframes move in even more.

Since the other day when the movie was normal, I grouped and ungrouped some clips and I burned a copy of the movie as a VCD to show to my students. I've done this before (burning to a VCD) and been able to go back and add clips to the movie and it still look normal.

I hope I'm describing this in a way that sounds familiar and someone has some advice on how to restore the movie to fit normal inside the preview window.

Here's what else is weird. Whenever I open clips in the Trimmer, they play fine! But, when I click on the timeline and click play -- the film clip is zoomed in. Any idea what I did to screw up my movie?

Well, tell me if this is correct or not. I think I was track motioning a clip, and I think when I clicked on track motion on the video overlay that it affected the entire timeline. I re-adjusted the track motion and everything on the timeline seems back to normal.

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4eyes wrote on 3/23/2007, 11:08 PM
Mine is usually set to "Draft (Auto)

There are more settings and features for previewing that could be causing this under "Options -> Preferences"
On the "Video" tab there are preview adjustments & settings.

You may need to reset the settings by hitting "Default" Icon.
There is a setting in there that says "Display at Project Size", make sure that's not checked on. That's handy when using an external device to preview the project.
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rustier wrote on 3/24/2007, 2:26 PM
check your track motion settings. the standard video default position is 720 width x 480 height. If you are zoomed in ( not to be confused with workspace zoom) the video will appear larger - zoomed - for anything dropped in that particular timeline. If your video looks normal in trimmer this is because the effect is applied by the track motion after you drop it in. another way to adjust the zoom is to grab the corner of the box (after you open track motion) and slide it in or out - but this method is not as exact as a direct entry

just in case you did this inadvertently - track motion is the little grey box with a white box and an arrow behind it on the left side of your display (just above the slider button).

for future reference you can zoom into individual clips with the pan/crop button

have fun with it!