Pan and Zoom together

kgresko wrote on 1/8/2004, 2:50 PM

Unless I missed something in the users guide for Video Facory, How can I both pan and zoom on the same picture. Ken Burns' PBS productions starts at the left of a still picture and then slowly pans and zooms to the right or left to concentrate on another part of the still image. Can this be done in Video Factory?

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IanG wrote on 1/8/2004, 3:10 PM

Yes, no problem! Right click on the still and go into pan/crop. Grab a corner of the frame and drag it in, making the frame smaller, to zoom in to your starting size (or leave it alone, or zoom out). Left click anywhere in the frame and drag it to your start position. Click the tick box between the begin and end buttons and repeat the exercise to set your end size and postion and then click close.

Ian G.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/8/2004, 7:45 PM

...and if you need more than just begin and end (say you want to zoom in, then pan across, then zoom out) you can always split the clip into three clips using the S key twice. Then on the first segment, begin at full and end at the zoom in. On the second, begin where the zoom in left off and end with the pan across. On the third, begin where the pan left off and end with the zoom out.

This is a lot easier to do in Vegas because you can have unlimited keyframes (not just begin and end) but you can get the same effect by splitting your clips in Video Factory/MovieStudio which gives you more begin and end points.

~jr

kgresko wrote on 1/9/2004, 7:06 AM

Thanks JR, Now here's one for you. I would like to use this pan and zoom in Screenblast then use the image in another program. I am guessing that if I brought in a picture and added it to the time line, then did the pan and zoom effects, saved it as a movie, it would be an avi file that I could use in any program. Do I have that right?

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/9/2004, 7:53 AM

Yes, that’s right. If that’s the only thing on the timeline then just render it as normal. If its part of a larger project, make a region/loop selection (i.e., just drag across from the top of the timeline so only the region you want to use in the other program is selected) then when you render, click the checkbox that says, "Render loop region only" and just that section will be rendered.

~jr