Track Motion Question for new user

s c o t t wrote on 3/17/2007, 10:58 PM

I'm doing a slide show of a before and after type slideshow photos. So I have the "before" photo on one video track and the "after" photo on a second video track. I can use the track motion to cause the "after" photo to push the "before" photo so that both are being displayed in a split screen.

But now I have another set of before and after photos following this first set. What confuses me is the track motion is over the whole track, where the pan/crop is just over the one media clip. The pan/crop makes sense to me, but the track motion is confusing.

Can I get the second set of photos to start independently? Is there a better method?
Thanks for any help or tutorial pointers.

I have Movie Studio 7.

-- Scott

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 3/18/2007, 4:17 AM

You'll need to use a lot of keyframes to do this in Track Motion. After you've moved both pictures off the screen, set another keyframe that moves the positions back to the original setttings before you moved the previous picture in. Then after that keyframe add the two new pictures to the timeline. You can repeat this process for as many sets of pictures as you want.

Personally, i also find that pan/crop seems easier and more sensible to me, so i tend to use it for this sort of task. Others will say that track motion is much easier than pan/crop. I guess it just depends on what you're used to. I'd love to see SONY add event motion and track pan/crop as well, so that both tools would be available for both events and tracks.