Adding pause to Pan and Crop

farbodr wrote on 6/4/2004, 8:44 AM

How do I add a pause to the end of the pan animation? I want the photo to pause at the end of the pan animation for a few seconds before the crossfade (or any other transition) to next picture starts.

TIA

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tyanbe wrote on 6/4/2004, 9:13 AM

There may be another way to do this, but this is how I make my photos pause after a pan. After you have decided on the ending pan and are still in the photo FX settings, give it a name (in the name box) and save it (click the floppy disk). Be sure "End" is selected (indented) and not "begin". Now go back to your media and select and place the same photo on the media line next to the other. I usually click the plus (+) to make the timeline really big so I can place it exactly next to it without any overlap or gap space. If the timeline is small sometimes it looks as if it's next to it but you will see a slight flicker if it is not. Then click this photo's FX to pan and crop the photo. Click begin. Now look in the saved box and click on the name you saved the previous photo's ending as. Now click end. Once again look through the saved settings box and select on the name you saved the previous photo's ending as. You will get a photo that does absolutely no movement just at the spot the panned photo ended. This produces and pause. By making it's time longer or shorter you can determine your pause time. *Note: If you change the pan ending for the first photo it will not automatically change the one you want to pause and you will have to go through the whole process again.

GerryLeacock wrote on 6/4/2004, 10:14 AM

Another way, without hitting the "save" disk icon, is to put the picture up twice from the media pool. In the first, do your pan and crop. Record the numbers in the properties window (in Pan/Crop window, top left, under the word "Presets"), and start and end the 2nd picture with the same numbers. Then drag the 2nd picture out for as many seconds as you want it on the screen.

The only difference in this method and the one proposed above, is that you are not hitting the save icon, which in effect, takes a picture of a picture.