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jetdv wrote on 1/17/2004, 9:13 PM
It depends on the source. What's the source? If you want to zoom in, you DO want to use Pan/Crop and NOT Track Motion. Pan/Crop will use the full resolution of the underlying image where Track Motion will only work on the current video screen.
p@mast3rs wrote on 1/17/2004, 9:24 PM
source is DV footage. It just seems that if I try to bring the subject 50% closer, the image suffers from very horrible softness.
MUTTLEY wrote on 1/17/2004, 9:34 PM
Is this after rendering or while previewing ? If its while previewing I believe you have to be on Good - Full or Best - Full to not have the blurriness when any recompression is taking place, i.e. pan/crop.

- Ray

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PeterWright wrote on 1/17/2004, 10:31 PM
Depends on the sharpness of the original frame, but as a general rule you're lucky to zoom in more than about 33% before the image gets softer - it's spreading less than a frame out to fill the whole frame, so some detail will always be lost.

With stills you can start at say 2400 x 1800 then zoom in a long way without losing quality.
johnmeyer wrote on 1/18/2004, 1:41 PM
If you zoom in, you lose resolution because you now have fewer pixels. When will it be noticeable? Pretty quickly.

Panning without zooming will not lose resolution, but you can get other artifacts, as was pointed out in previous posts.