Pan/Crop Tool for Track?

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/3/2020, 5:51 PM

I had already choppied up and stretched a video to sync it to a soundtrack. It was only then that I realized I needed to adjust the panning/cropping of the video to fit it into a grid (doing one of those virtual choir things with like 70 videos). I finally figured out how to crop tops and sides of videos to make them fit into square grids. But that was using Event Pan/Crop. Unless I want to try to do it 12 times for the various slices that created new events/items on the track, I am hoping to find a way to apply pan/crop at the track level. I tried adding the FX called Crop. But that is super hard to understand, and it creates a massive version of the video with borders all the way out to the entire preview screen limits. What I need is the same thing that is used for Event pan/crop, but for the track. Does something like that exist? Thanks!

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RogerS wrote on 12/3/2020, 6:18 PM

Can't track motion do that? If the button on the track isn't visible you can change that setting.

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/3/2020, 6:54 PM

I don't know :-P. Part of the problem is that I don't know what don't know.

lenard wrote on 12/3/2020, 6:59 PM

Try using the free Resolve 17 for this, It is much more easier to use and logical. This is a demonstration of the built in video collage effect, and it address's the problem you're talking about

full video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbrOKgvG8k

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/3/2020, 8:19 PM

Thanks. It does look amazing and would do some of these things much more intuitively. But it seems silly to drop another $300 on yet another program.

lenard wrote on 12/3/2020, 9:12 PM

It's free

RogerS wrote on 12/3/2020, 11:17 PM

At least try track motion to see if it does what you need- it looks like this.

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/4/2020, 12:04 AM

Thanks. It does look amazing and would do some of these things much more intuitively. But it seems silly to drop another $300 on yet another program.

Oh! I didn't see there was a free version. Thanks!

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/4/2020, 12:05 AM

At least try track motion to see if it does what you need- it looks like this.

I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks!

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/5/2020, 5:21 PM

At least try track motion to see if it does what you need- it looks like this.

Roger, I can certainly open Track Motion on the track control panel. But I don't know how to pan the video. Do I need to find what works on one (of the dozen or so) events on the track, and then create a key for every event? Just one key at the end? One at the beginning and end? Confused.

Ken-Theriot wrote on 12/5/2020, 5:50 PM

OK I did some more experimenting with the Crop Effect on the entire track and can definitely use that. I was trying to do it with a dozen videos all shrunk down and didn't realize quite how the tool worked. But when I used just one single video, I saw and am now enlightened :-).

set wrote on 12/5/2020, 8:29 PM

👍

Keep experimenting... so many ways to do it here...