Parent/Child Compositing Question

Sidecar2 wrote on 11/6/2006, 11:18 AM

I have 42 tracks of picture and audio originally built for PowerPoint with info going to the edges outside TV safe.

Now the customer wants me to take it to video.

How do I shrink all the tracks evenly? The quick fix was to render everything out to an uncompressed single file, then inport that and shrink it a bit with track motion.

How could I set up parent/child compositing to resize all tracks below the parent?

When I created a new track 1 at the top and made all tracks below it children, changing the size of track one with track motion did not effect the tracks below. What am I missing?

Thanks.

Comments

Sidecar2 wrote on 11/6/2006, 11:22 AM

Never mind. I found it.

I needed to click the "Parent Motion" button to the very left on Track 1, not the track motion button.

Chienworks wrote on 11/6/2006, 8:21 PM

Yup, that'll do it.

However, you may get better results using your first method, except with Pan/Crop instead of Track Motion, especially if you use images that don't match the frame size. Track Motion resizes the source material to the frame size, then resizes again to match the desired image size. It's resizing algorithm also seems to be not as accurate as Pan/Crop.