An alternative to Pan&Crop?

Sunky wrote on 3/4/2026, 8:33 AM

Hello,

I'm looking for an alternative to Pan & Crop because I can't see velocity curves. Picture-in-Picture isn't very practical for panning, and while I use S-BlurMoCurves, which is very useful for manipulating velocity curves, it lowers the image quality (the client pointed this out).

The only thing I can do is use Pan & Crop and BlurMoCurves for slight zooms because the Z-Dist is awful. I tried TrackMotion, but it's the same story: not as bad as Z-Dist, but still with a slight drop in quality.

If anyone has any solutions, I'd be very grateful. (This is often for vertical formats.)

 

:)

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3POINT wrote on 3/4/2026, 8:40 AM

@Sunky When you put PIP-Fx before Pan/crop tool, PIP-Fx adepts source resolution and not project resolution.

Sunky wrote on 3/4/2026, 8:54 AM

@Sunky When you put PIP-Fx before Pan/crop tool, PIP-Fx adepts source resolution and not project resolution.

Thanks for the tips it work! Good to know for some project, but here it's 1920x1080 to 1080x1920 if i zoom with PiP that let me 1920x1080 when i put PiP before Pan&Crop.

I tried unchecking "maintain proportions" but it's too complicated to manage

I saw you're using Vegasaur. Did Vegasaur have something to fix my problem?

 

Thanks for ur answer :)

3POINT wrote on 3/4/2026, 9:14 AM

Vegasaur, not that I'm aware of.(Vegasaur is not available anymore AFAIK)

zzzzzz9125 wrote on 3/4/2026, 10:50 AM

@Sunky All I can say is that Pan/Crop is almost the fundamental logic of VEGAS Pro. It cannot be replaced by any other FX. Before Pan/Crop, FX processes the raw video footage, and the content will be "rasterized" to the resolution of the project by Pan/Crop. (If you've studied Photoshop, you should know the difference between smart objects and rasterized objects.) FX after Pan/Crop can only receive the content processed by Pan/Crop. In your case, this would result in a loss of quality. It's unavoidable.

Since it's unavoidable, you might be able to try to adapt to Pan/Crop. For the velocity curves, you can try using VPFlow, which is a free extension that can add Bezier curve support for almost all types of keyframes in VEGAS Pro by fitting the curves. It supports motion keyframes in Pan/Crop, as well as some others.

3POINT wrote on 3/4/2026, 12:53 PM

Vegasaur, not that I'm aware of.(Vegasaur is not available anymore AFAIK)

I forgot that Vegasaur has "Tweener" which can generate velocity curves keyframes for Pan/crop tool.