Camera effect - help!

Peeks wrote on 6/6/2005, 2:09 AM
Hi guys! Been a while since i posted something here. Hope everyone's great.

I just got Vegas 6 a couple days ago and there's this effect i want to create but haven't gotten to pull it off. Hope i'll be able to explain it and someone can help:

1. What i want to do is increase the size of the area of visual workspace. I understand that the standard is 720x480. That's okay and i want my picture to be bigger than the screen. What i want to do then is use the event pan/crop and make it move through out the picture simulating the camera moving up, down and side to side.

2. I tried to stretch my picture but obviously it got pixelated. I already saved it at 300dpi and sized at 22' x 22' but still when i drag it to the timeline it still get fitted in the view area. When i stretch, pixelated.

3. My problem with using event pan/crop with the proportioned picture is that the otehr areas of the picture gets croped .

4. Again, the effect i want is to simulate that the camera is being moved in all directions wherein parts of the picture is still being seen in the background.

Hope i've explained it well. Hope to hear from you guys.

Cheers,Ü

-Ana-

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 6/6/2005, 4:42 AM
Your picture is 79,200 x 79,200 pixels? That's absolutely enormous and can cause many problems. The uncompressed size would be almost 18GB. Unless you've got about 20GB of RAM this would probably slow your computer to a crawl. Or do you mean 22" x 22"? That would still result in a 124MB image at 6600 x 6600 pixels, which is more managable but probably still overkill.

I see a couple of problems what you're doing. First, don't use a picture larger than you need. If you want to zoom in on about 1/3 of the image you won't need a size bigger than about 2000 pixels. The other problem is that Vegas crops to the images frame shape. Your image is square so Vegas will show a square image when you pan/crop. To correct this, right-mouse-click on the image in the pan/crop widow and choose "match output aspect". Now the cropping frame will match the shape of the video frame and you'll be able to fill the frame when you zoom in.

The problem with track motion is that Vegas renders an image at the frame resolution first and then zooms in on that low resolution version.
Peeks wrote on 6/7/2005, 8:56 PM
Hey Chienworks,

As always, you are there to rescue, thanks!

You got it right, it was 22 inches. Phew! Gave you bit of a scare hehe!

I see that i can only fill the video frame and not get any bigger. Thanks again and maybe it'l get me closer to the effect i want.

Cheers,Ü

-Ana-