Cannot Pan Picture in Picture to Corner of Video

robothawk wrote on 8/22/2019, 11:43 PM

I'm attempting to make an animated map showing troop movements leading up to the Battle of Gergovia for my wargaming club. Naturally, at certain points I need troops to move onto the screen from off screen. What I am doing is manually panning and zooming the army markers on to a map on a different layer. However, the zooming locks off at a 800x400 box, while I would like to zoom out farther to make the marker smaller, and if I try to pan to one corner it simply cuts off the overlaid video about 3/4 of the way across the screen.

Is there a way to:

1. Stop the cut off from happening, letting me pan picture overlay fully to the corner of a video

2. Zoom out farther, making the overlaid picture smaller.

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EricLNZ wrote on 8/22/2019, 11:48 PM

Two possible solutions:

1 - Right click on Pan/Crop box and select "Match Output Aspect", or

2 - Use Track Motion

robothawk wrote on 8/23/2019, 12:00 AM

Two possible solutions:

1 - Right click on Pan/Crop box and select "Match Output Aspect", or

2 - Use Track Motion

I can't use track motion because I literally can't move it to the corner to start it. Match Output Aspect changes the aspect ratio, but it still disappears 3/4 of the way to the corner.

See this image: https://imgur.com/oJgXlyR

EricLNZ wrote on 8/23/2019, 3:23 AM

You must be doing something different as I can drag an event right off the screen.

Note - you can post images direct onto the forum here rather than elsewhere.

What is your project size (pixel dimensions) and what is the pixel size of the object you are trying to place.

EricLNZ wrote on 8/23/2019, 3:31 AM

It's just as easy to move with Track Motion

vkmast wrote on 8/23/2019, 4:47 AM

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/23/2019, 7:33 AM

And here's my tutorial on doing essentially what Eric suggests. It may make things clearer.

EricLNZ wrote on 8/23/2019, 9:53 PM

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Thanks @vkmast I completely overlooked the third, and probably easiest way, namely to use the relatively recently introduced 'Picture In Picture' Video FX. Apply this to the event and you can shrink and place, all within the FX. But with the PIP FX you are limited to a 10% size reduction and cannot move the image completely off screen.

EricLNZ wrote on 8/23/2019, 9:58 PM

And here's my tutorial on doing essentially what Eric suggests. It may make things clearer.


Thanks @Steve Grisetti. One query - in the tutorial you play around reshaping the box to get rid of black bars. Was there a reason for you not right clicking on the box and selecting "Match Output Aspect"?

Steve Grisetti wrote on 8/24/2019, 8:12 AM

No. That would certainly work also.

robothawk wrote on 8/24/2019, 9:47 AM

Note this comment and the thread as well.

Thanks @vkmast I completely overlooked the third, and probably easiest way, namely to use the relatively recently introduced 'Picture In Picture' Video FX. Apply this to the event and you can shrink and place, all within the FX. But with the PIP FX you are limited to a 10% size reduction and cannot move the image completely off screen.

I was using the default PiP video line that exists in all projects, when I switched to instead just use a standard video layer, the problem went away. Thank you all for your help.