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BillyBoy wrote on 8/15/2003, 6:17 PM
What effect are you trying to get?

If you could lock a corner, the effect would be to distort the rest of the image. You can do that to some extent with the deform filter. Probably a better solution (depending on what you want) would be Satish's 3D filters.

As far as pan/crop the box can be changed to position only a portion of the image. How much, how again depends on what you want to do. For example pulling in on one of the corners 'zooms in' with the image getting larger within the bounding box the further you go. So if you had a group picture of several people you could begin zooming in to just have their heads, then slowly zoom out as you rotated. Only the area within the box shows. Set match output aspect first.

You need to be more specifc.
OldTimer wrote on 8/15/2003, 6:27 PM
If for instance you clicked on the lower left corner & could lock that position & then click on the upper right corner & dragged your cursor towards to lower left you would have a rectangle that could easily be resized & still has the lower left corner in place.

There are lots of things that could possibly be done with fewer steps if you could force on corner to stay in place.
BillyBoy wrote on 8/15/2003, 7:17 PM
It is EASY if you LEARN how Vegas does it. You drag the box around the work space, what's inside the box is what your rendered project will end up as. Outside the box, its out of frame.

Let me guess... you're coming from another application and want to do it a way, you're use to rather to learn how its done in Vegas.

I have over a couple dozen graphic programs, Photoshop, Ray Dream, Corel Draw, Poser, Bryce 3D, etc.. and they ALL do things a little differently. Its just how things are.
jeremyk wrote on 8/15/2003, 9:20 PM
In the event pan/crop and track motion windows there's a "Size About Center" button on the left side of the window just above the "Move Freely" button (the one that looks like a 4-headed arrow.

If Size About Center is deselected (or if you hold down the Alt key), the side or corner of the selection box opposite to the handle you are moving will stay stationary.

Is that what you had in mind?
jeremyk wrote on 8/15/2003, 9:22 PM
Oh, yeah. And the center handle of the selection box is the center of rotation of the box. You can grab it with the mouse (watch for the cursor to change to a 4-headed arrow with an empty center) and drag it to wherever you like.
OldTimer wrote on 8/16/2003, 7:55 AM
Thats exactly what I wanted. Sorry but I seem to have missed seeing it before.