Crop event to disappearence?

frederick-wise wrote on 1/28/2010, 1:52 PM
Hi,

I'm trying to crop a picture from fullscreen down to a tiny little point until it gets so small it disappears. However, there seems to be a limit as to how small I can shrink it which leaves it larger than I want (I can still see it easily). Is there a way to make it get so small it disappears?

So far I've tried entering in numbers such as "30,000" into the 'width' field but it won't accept that number and defaults to a smaller number which results in the picture still being large enough to easily see.

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Earl_J wrote on 1/28/2010, 2:01 PM
I'd also decrease the opacity as it shrinks so that it really fades from view about the time it gets as small as it can... or start it half way through the shrink to accelerate the fade...

In combination with the shrinking, it may provide the effect you're looking for, no?

Until that time... Earl J.
Chienworks wrote on 1/28/2010, 3:27 PM
Use track motion instead. You can set the ending size to 0.
farss wrote on 1/28/2010, 4:01 PM
As above plus add some Gaussian Blur as you fade it down.

Bob.
PeterWright wrote on 1/28/2010, 5:35 PM
.. or add a Zoom out transition at the end ... in fact you could do the whole thing with a Zoom out Transition
frederick-wise wrote on 1/28/2010, 8:37 PM
Thanx for the replies but I think I've already tried the 'track motion'/zoom technique and it doesn't allow me to make the picture get so small it completely disappears. For reference, I'm trying to create a "Road Runner" look where a picture of a bottle looks like it is being dropped from a high height and then falls until it is a little point on the screen. When it gets real small I'm going to add some smoke like in the Road Runner cartoon, indicating the bottle has exploded way down there somewhere.
Chienworks wrote on 1/28/2010, 8:39 PM
Track motion will let you get it all the way down to <1 pixel. The only thing smaller than that is not having it there at all. So, at the end of the zoom have the event end.

Some blur and fade out will probably help.
frederick-wise wrote on 1/28/2010, 9:07 PM
I assume you are refering to the track motion technique. So far I've tried inserting my still photo into a track and set its time duration to 1 second. Then I set the 1st track motion keyframe at time 0:00;00, position: width 1280, height 720. Then I insert another keyframe at time 01;00, but try to increase the width value to as big as it will accept to make the picture smaller. Unfortunately the width value will not go any higher than 10,240 (which leaves the picture still very large). Setting width to "0" actually makes it bigger. Can someone try this out - it seems odd?
xberk wrote on 1/28/2010, 9:27 PM
To make the bottle appear to receed into the distance you would want the bottle image to be smaller as it receeds. With pan/crop you'd do this by making the pan/crop frame larger (height and width) to make the image inside the frame smaller but with track motion you make the height and width smaller until they get to zero where the image will disappear.

Use the "help" in Vegas to find out about how to use track motion.
Or search YouTube for "Vegas Track Motion Tutorial"
Track motion can make your bottle spin as it goes down.

Can you post a picture of your bottle image somewhere? Folks here might like to play spin the bottle.

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Chienworks wrote on 1/29/2010, 3:17 AM
Track motion controls the size of the image, not the size of the frame it exists in. Setting the width to 0 makes the image zero size. It works perfectly here. Check your keyframe timeline carefully. You should have only two keyframes: one at 0:00;00 with the original size, and one at 1:00;00 with a size of zero. If you have any other keyframes that might be confusing things.
frederick-wise wrote on 1/29/2010, 5:37 AM
Fixed it! Thanx all for the replies - I finally figured out the "track motion" technique, which worked. I had always used the event pan/crop for this type of thing. I work in the environmental protection field and we wanted to make a little video of litter disappearing- - and now it does!