Pan and Crop question

DSCalef wrote on 11/11/2007, 8:54 PM

I use Pan and Crop every so often, not a lot.

After I crop keeping aspect ratio for a tighter shot, I have no trouble moving the crop up or down on the original image, but can't seem to freely move the crop left or right.

What simple thing am I missing? I have read and re-read the manual and get no clues as to my idiocy.

On a second question, I once in a while will take a 16:9 and render it to 4:3. I can crop an an event but can I crop for an entire track. If I am doing it to a rendered video, cropping the one event on the whole track is obviously easy. There must be a better way.

Thanks.

David

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/11/2007, 9:09 PM

question 1: on the left side of the pan/crop window you'll see the aspect ration button (looks like a letter envelope & a big square with a smaller one inside). Right below that is the move button. It has four arrows (up/down/left/right), two arrows up/down & two left/right. unless it's four arrows you can only move on one axis. check that.

q2: you can't crop an entire track. what you could do is render an AVI & use pan/crop on that.

Terry Esslinger wrote on 11/11/2007, 10:13 PM

You can crop an entire track using track motion.

DSCalef wrote on 11/11/2007, 10:50 PM

Stephen:

DUH! That double headed or quad-headed arrow was absolutely invisible to me for some stupid reason. I must have punched it inadvertantly once or twice, because once or twice I could move in any direction,

As far as rendering to the AVI and then using Pan and Crop, that is what I was referring to in my message that I was already doing.

Thank you for the pointers! (Oops, sorry for the pun.)

David

DSCalef wrote on 11/11/2007, 10:52 PM

Terry:

Thanks. That jostled some memory cells that I had read that earlier somewhere.

Now, to learn Track Motion techniques......

Thank you, Terry.

David

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/12/2007, 7:52 AM

track motion doesn't do exactly the same as pan/crop so depending on what's going on it won't help.

If the pan/crop is the same way for everything you can save a preset & apply it to every event. forgot about that. :)