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jrazz wrote on 9/11/2006, 7:29 PM
Keyframes in the pan and crop window. At the begining move & shrink the area to be shown on the picture and at the end of the picture, move and expand or reverse it.

You can also use stillmotion from vasst.com - if you have a lot of stills, it makes it almost effortless.

j razz
Serena wrote on 9/11/2006, 7:42 PM
You don't really need a tutorial to get started. Have the still on the timeline? On it you'll see two "things", one a sort of square and the other a sort of vertibrae (forgive these highly tech descriptions). Left click on the square type thing. An event pan/crop window opens. Now you can manipulate the envelope to suit. Make sure you have done a right click on the image and select "match output aspect".
Along the bottom you have a slider (2 actually). The one marked "position" sets keyframes, each defining the size and position of the frame at that time. So set the frame, click on the slider to create the keyframe for that time (from start of clip) and so on. If you have v6 you'll have a slider that will allow you to check the movement. Earlier and you just drag along the position timeline.
You set the time for the slide to be up by adjusting on the timeline.
There are other things, but try this to start with.
jsearles wrote on 9/11/2006, 7:43 PM
j razz

Thanks for the help. I am trying to zoom in on a HS football team picture then pan left then across to the right. My problem is I can't seem to move the box to the left or right. Also, I have tried Stillmotion but it seems to hide the picture after it is processed!

John
Serena wrote on 9/11/2006, 7:44 PM
Make sure you have set "match output aspect".
Tim L wrote on 9/11/2006, 8:21 PM
My problem is I can't seem to move the box to the left or right.

I'm a VMS user, but I suppose Pan/Crop might be about the same...

Look at the icons along the left edge of the pan-crop window. The very bottom one -- at least in VMS -- is a control that lets you constrain movement of the cropping frame. If yours looks like a vertical, double-headed arrow, it is set to only allow movement in the Y direction. Click it until you get a four-headed arrow, and you will be able to move the frame freely in all directions.

OOPS: Okay, now that I think of it, I KNOW that VMS has a different pan-crop, because VMS is only 2D, while Vegas is 3D. Still, this might be similar to what you need to look for.

Tim L
jetdv wrote on 9/12/2006, 7:31 AM
Vol 1 #8 of my newsletters?

You might also want to look at Vol 3 #3 - the "Kids in the picture" effect.