Pan and Zoom?

Hammer wrote on 12/4/2002, 1:31 PM

I saw someone mention using pan and zoom in another thread. I assumed VF didn't have that feature and that I would need to upgrade to VV to get that. I really want to have some stills that I slowly pan and/or zoom. Is that possible?

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Chienworks wrote on 12/4/2002, 2:04 PM

Pan and Zoom (actually Crop) is available in VideoFactory. Click on the little "FX" icon in the lower right corner of the event to open up the Video Event Properties window. Click on the Pan/Crop tab. Play :)

JohnnyRoy wrote on 12/4/2002, 10:04 PM

You get two keyframes with Video Factory: begin and End. Vegas gives you unlimited keyframes. That's the only difference. So what you want to do is crop (zoom) to the starting point and then press the END button and move (pan) or crop (zoom) to the final point. When you play it back you'll have a nice smooth pan and/or zoom.

~jr

Grazie wrote on 12/4/2002, 10:58 PM

So that's what a key frame is - DOAH! Obvious really.... So in VV you can animate the "clip" all over the screen - if you wish. Does it create some sort of vector path you can identify? Can you then "alter" the vector path?... I've too many questions now - and I aint got VV yet!

Grazie

miketree wrote on 12/5/2002, 4:35 AM

Grazie,

Download the demo & have a play!

miketree wrote on 12/5/2002, 4:36 AM

Sorry Grazie, You don't have a broadband connection, do you?!! :(

Grazie wrote on 12/5/2002, 4:38 AM

Mike - "Download the demo"! - I'm trying to BUY it UK-side using the upgrade offer! SoFo SALES I've sent you a message - pleeeease reply - I wannna my VV NOW!

Just ordered an extra 2 120gb external hds and I wanna use them!

Grazie

Hammer wrote on 12/6/2002, 12:51 PM

Doh!! Thanks for the feedback. I tried it and it works great. Unfortunately, I was using that as an excuse to upgrade to VV so now I'll have to think of another;) Better encoder, yeah that's the ticket.

Chienworks wrote on 12/6/2002, 4:19 PM

Hammer: unlimited tracks, keyframable events, DX plugins, print to tape from timeline, chroma keying, velocity envelopes, masks, track motion .... need any more reasons? I'm sure we can think of them for ya!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 12/6/2002, 4:48 PM

Grazie,

To answer the other part of your question: Yes, you get the vector path drawn for you and you can manipulate it and control the smoothness and speed at which the video passes each keyframe of the vector. Are you salivating yet? ;-)

~jr