advanced pan/zoom

burger64 wrote on 4/4/2009, 6:45 PM
Hi, I am new to video editing and am using Movie Studio 9 platinum pro pack. I'd like to achieve an effect where multiple boxes of video are being displayed at once against a black background. Something like you would see on the television show "24".

I know I can move a FULL size video anywhere I want on the screen, but I'd like to be able to pan/zoom wherever I want inside the individual clips, as well as position that clip onto the screen.

This doesn't seem possible because video zooming seems to be tied directly to Pan/Crop tool, which is also used make the video clip small and reposition it. So I can't pan/zoom into the video and pan/zoom out of the clip (to make it smaller) at the same time then? Or can you somehow stack pan/zoom operations?

The only way I can think of doing it would be to do my initial zooming on the clip, render that to a new clip, then use that new clip in the "24" effect. Thats way more work than it should be though! Any ideas?

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Chienworks wrote on 4/4/2009, 7:10 PM
Use Pan/Crop to crop the image to the area you want. Use Track Motion to shrink it and position it in the frame. Track Motion is accessed by the icon in the track header that looks like two overlapping rectangles with an arrow joining the corners.
burger64 wrote on 4/4/2009, 10:46 PM
ahhh i see. This should get me what I want, thanks!
burger64 wrote on 4/4/2009, 10:56 PM
hmm on the final render the letterboxing makes the spacing of the clips a lot different than what was in the preview window during editing. When I turn letterbox off for the final render the spacing is accurate. Is there a way to get a more accurate preview during editing? Preview in letterbox?
Chienworks wrote on 4/5/2009, 4:33 AM
Make sure the project properties match the output file format. That will help a lot.