apply zoom/pan for multipl photos at the same time

coolBreeze1020 wrote on 1/3/2009, 5:08 AM
i've created a slide show with around 200 photos... i'd like to apply zoom/pan effects for each object photo... is there some way i can apply these effects for multiple photos at the same time? somehow, i fear that i will need to do them individually, and that will be a significantly lengthy task...

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jetdv wrote on 1/3/2009, 7:43 AM
With the Movie Studio version, you need to do them manually - one at a time.

With the Pro version, scripting can be used and you could have movements added to all 200 in about... one second. You'd still need to adjust the movements, though, especially on images with people in them.
coolBreeze1020 wrote on 1/4/2009, 5:07 AM
as i suspected... oof... thanks for the reply...
autopilot wrote on 1/4/2009, 10:41 AM
Can you Copy ( the attributes) from the first photo, then group the rest, and then Paste Attributes, and then ungroup them?

I haven't tried it, but . . . . ?
jetdv wrote on 1/4/2009, 6:50 PM
If you want them to all move exactly the same, yes. However, that usually isn't desired.
ritsmer wrote on 1/4/2009, 11:50 PM
You can do this to multiple photos at the same time easily:

say you have 3 general pan/crop effects that you want to apply to different photos - and that you have done them to 3 photos in the timeline - then copy the photo with the first general pan/crop effect and then select the photos where you want to apply that effrct with CTRL+LeftClick and then do Paste event attributes.
Do the same for the 2 other general P/C effects and - voila: done!.

A Pasted Event Attribute can be adjusted afterwards for single specific photos.
You can see to which photos you have already Pasted from the little grey/green PacCrop rectangle.
MSmart wrote on 1/4/2009, 11:56 PM
Agreed, not all the same. What I would do is apply a different pan/crop effect to the first four or 5 events (photos). Select the first event, Copy. Click on a new event then Ctrl-click on varioius other events then Paste Event Attributes. Repeat for events 2 though 5.

The problem with this is that it's hard to keep track of which random events you applied the attributes to when doing the subsequent selections. You'd have to run through the timeline (play) to see how it looks and to see which events didn't get a pan/crop attribute applied.

ADDED: Looks like ritsmer jumped in ahead of me before I could hit the submit button. Something about great minds thinking alike comes to mind.
ritsmer wrote on 1/5/2009, 12:02 AM
MSmart wrote: "Something about great minds thinking alike comes to mind."

You are too kind :-))
Sonata wrote on 1/5/2009, 7:35 AM
What about using track motion instead...
coolBreeze1020 wrote on 1/11/2009, 4:46 AM
interesting... this could be a workable solution... i'm a vegas newbie, but i'm learning fast... thanks for the tip...
jetdv wrote on 1/11/2009, 5:49 AM
If you're zooming IN on a photo, you DO NOT want to use Track Motion.

Track motion will zoom in on the video frame at the video resolution

Pan/Crop will zoom in using the FULL RESOLUTION of the photo.