Pan and crop difficulty here

slave1director wrote on 5/20/2005, 4:11 PM

Hi all,


Ok so it is somewhat simple take a look at the flag here:

http://www.geographic.org/flags/new1/italy_flags.html


Now Imagine that what I want to do is crop the image so that only the white part shows and put the part on the left hand side. The next two images will be the same size and will be coming from the right one at a time

Now the cropping is fine , I can get to have only the middle part of the image showing but as soon as I try to put it on the left hand side the 'black area" takes over .

Now one time I wanted to have an image at a 1/4 of it's size and put it on the top left , no problem there , I would zoom out through the pan window and drag the image in the top corner .

But it looks like vertical trimming is trickier. I don't have the aspect ratio locked and I fooled around the "move freely" option as well

thanks in advance

Phil

Hope I made things clear

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 5/20/2005, 6:06 PM
Vegas does an odd thing in that it "remembers" the shape of the media, stretched to the largest size that will fit in the frame, and crops anything outside this rectangle. For example, if you use a square image in an NSTC frame, Vegas makes a square 528x480 pixels centered in the frame. You can resize and reshape the image to whatever you want, but if you try to drag it outside that 528x480 region it won't show up. I can't for the life of me understand the benefit of this behavior since it's easy enough to do it yourself if you want it, but difficult to bypass if you don't want it, and i can't imagine why anyone would want it.

What you may have to do is use Pan/Crop to properly crop and size the image, then use Track Motion to place it where you want it in the frame.
slave1director wrote on 5/20/2005, 7:45 PM

Hi ,

Well that is exactly what's happening , I am still under Vegas 5 , do you know if they corrected this issue in version 6?

Also , is it possible to apply track motion to only a clip instead of the entire track , if not then there is going to be a lot of track creation here :)

Thank you for your time

Phil
Chienworks wrote on 5/21/2005, 2:49 AM
Vegas 6 still does the same thing.

In Pan/Crop, you can right-mouse-button click on the frame and choose "match output aspect", which will crop the image to the same shape as the frame. As long as you keep this shape the cropped version will fill the frame. This applies to most versions of Vegas.

Unfortunately track motion only applies to tracks. However, if you set a pair of keyframe before and after the clip you can have different track motion settings applied to each clip in the track.