Crop & Pan together?

skinned_knee wrote on 10/10/2006, 2:11 PM

Lets see if I can explain what I want to ask.... hmmmm
I'm working on a still image only project, and I want to have individual images "floating" across the screen over a background - easy enough. I know how to make that happen - but, I also have images that need to be cropped AND shrunk down to float across.

If I "zoom in" on an image to crop out the areas I don't want, it becomes larger than full screen - so I don't see how to crop the edges away and still have it less than full screen.

I really hope someone understands what I am trying to ask... If you do, is this even possible? I see where it is asking for 2 opposite things, so maybe it isn't, but I also would think this isn't that unusual, so there has to be a way to do it. I might just be going at it entirely wrong.

I guess I could always edit the still image (to do the cropping) outside of VMS - is that the answer?

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Tim L wrote on 10/10/2006, 3:20 PM

Use the pan/crop tool to do the cropping -- i.e. keeping just a portion of your image.

Use Track Motion to shrink it down and move it across the screen. Track Motion works a little bit differently than pan/crop, but this is exactly what Track Motion is intended for. Also, since it operates on a track rather than just a single event, your floating picture could really be a sequence of pictures, fading from one to the next as the image slides across the screen.

Tim L

Edit: This is assuming you have VMS 6 or 7. I don't think VMS 4 had track motion -- though I don't recall for certain.

rustier wrote on 10/10/2006, 3:58 PM

your memory serves you right Tim. VMS 4 is much more limited.

skinned_knee wrote on 10/10/2006, 9:22 PM

Thanks - I figured there was a way. I had not played with track motion (obviously) until now... Pretty darned cool.

Next up - learn how to soften the edges of the floating pix, then on to highlighting a portion of a picture (and having the highlighted area follow a subject in moving video.... hehe