How to bypass Zoom Limitations Using the Pan and Crop Tool?

DNA-Decay wrote on 8/24/2016, 9:00 PM

How to bypass Zoom Limitations Using the Pan and Crop Tool?

I am using the Pan and crop tool to position a dozen avatars on screen over a background image.

To that's say 13 layers.

Add a still image to a layer, select pan and crop resize and find a nice place for it with all the others. By widening out the zoom I can make the images smaller, but in some cases - not small enough. Why can't I zoom out further?

a) Why is there a pan crop zoom limitation at all?

b) How do I get around it?

I can force the issue by embeding the picture in a larger transparent canvas and replacing it, but that's a lot of work for just a bit more zoom out.

Vegas Pro 13 (problem in previous versions also)

Comments

set wrote on 8/24/2016, 9:09 PM

You can use Track level Pan and crop to do that..., but of course it will affect whole video track, so for my workaround, I better put the picture on larger transparent image canvas...

DNA-Decay wrote on 8/24/2016, 9:20 PM

Yeah but why is there a limitation at all?

Surely we should be able to zoom out until the image is just two pixels if we want.

Ading track zoom on top is a nice Kludge, but it will add a heap of layers to this project, as the current layers are used for all sorts of junk. (very busy video)

DNA-Decay wrote on 8/24/2016, 11:50 PM

Peter Wright in this thread: https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/this-forum-needs-a-search-bar-asap--103136/

Posts a solution which is: "I would use track motion to do this."

"You can use track keyframes to return a track to "Normal" after using Track Motion."

And that has worked for me.