photo montage question:

dvideo2 wrote on 8/25/2010, 2:05 PM
I hope i can make this make sense:

Id like to create a backdrop file in photoshop that will be large
enough to move from left to right to the point where the image
will keep going and going.......In other words lets say i have
a landscape pic: I want to pan, pan, and pan some more and
have new portions of the image keep coming into view within
the "canvas/preview" window. The question is this: In photoshop,
I created a file that is 2160 by 1440 pixels and simultaneousely,
30 inches wide by 20 inches tall. While working within a 720 by
480 widescreen project, i thought this photoshop file would be
big enough to make this happen (move the picture from right to
left to have an effect comparible to panning right to left on a camera).........somehow though, when i bring the file into vegas,
it really just seems to be filling the screen without all of the excess
that i was expecting..........Sorry about the less than clear description here, but if anyone knows what i'm talking about, can you please
offer some advice as to how to create this effect...
THANKS....

Comments

rs170a wrote on 8/25/2010, 2:12 PM
Here's a basic explanation.
After you open Pan/Crop, right-click in the middle of the image, select "Match Output Aspect", place your cursor at any of the 4 corners and zoom in to the desired start location.
Next, place your cursor at the end of the Pan/Crop timeline and move the box to the desired end location.
Keyframes are created each time you do this so, once you exit, press play and watch your pan in action.
Try this and let us know if you have any more questions.

Mike
dvideo2 wrote on 8/25/2010, 2:19 PM

thanks, but i'm trying to create this effect without doing to much
zooming in....In other words, I'm trying to create a file in photoshop
big enough to the point where i can just pan it with keys and avoid
zooming.....
what do you think?
kairosmatt wrote on 8/25/2010, 2:26 PM
If you don't want to zoom any, shouldn't height of the photoshop file be the same as the hieght of the project properties (ie 480)?

The width can be as wide as youwant for the duration of the effect.

Then when you match output aspect you can just pan left or right.

I don't have Vegas in front of me right now to test, but I think that would work.

matt
rs170a wrote on 8/25/2010, 6:19 PM
Matt is correct.
If you don't want to do any zooming,then you have to leave the width at 480.
It was the numbers in your original post that made me say what I did.

Mike
Chienworks wrote on 8/25/2010, 6:45 PM
Leaving the full height is fine too. You just have to tell Vegas what size window "into the image" to use.

In Pan/Crop, turn off the "lock aspect ratio" button (note, this button is on the left edge, NOT the "maintain aspect" option under "source).

Set the width to 654.54 and the height to 480.

That's it, that's all that needs to be done to make a 1:1 pixel window into any arbitrarily sized image. Note that this even works the other way 'round, when you want a small picture to appear actual size within the video frame instead of filling.

edit ... Just noticed "widescreen". In this case use 873x480 instead of 654.54x480.