Vegas 12 panoramic zoom problem.

DiDequ wrote on 1/8/2014, 4:33 AM
Hello.

I do not know how to get good results zooming inside a still picture : most generated pictures are sharp, but become not so sharp, then sharp (focused?) again in the resulting film.

You can download this sample picture and render a simple project with it, just zooming from a full screen moon to 100%, 30" long.
This is a nice picture !

You can do the same zoom with Blender : all pictures inside the video are sharp (focused ?)
( blender is free.)

Both films are too heavy, I cannot upload and give links to download somewhere.

It is as if Vegas does a zoom but does not always resample the original picture.
There must be a setting somewhere to get perfect results.

I use huggin to generate panoramics - (3x12 pictures, 16mb each . - 16 for bottom, 16 for middle and 16 for top, mounted in a single big picture) I would like a perfect video zooming inside one of it.

I tried Sony mvc render setting, and also the wmv file - same problem under Vegas.
Using 1920x1080 profiles.

You can see better what I try to explain if you generate and display the film at 1/3 in length, and then picture by picture.

Thanks in advance for any tip.

Didier.

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john_dennis wrote on 1/8/2014, 5:46 AM


Here is a one minute video where I zoom to 1920x1080 at 30 seconds, then pan around the surface of the moon at 1920x1080.

Project is here.

Kubrick would be so proud...
DiDequ wrote on 1/9/2014, 10:10 AM
Thank you John.

Your project uses 2 video layers. I only used one, thinking the simplest was the best, and to get the moon full screen, I changed "keep proportions" to No...

I got same resluts, with some out of focus pictures as explained above.
Problem is solved now.

Blender can give you a funny result too : I modified my project... as it is free ...
1 install blender if not already done http://www.blender.org/download/
2 download my zip file 55 Mb because of textures.
3 unzip the Zoom folder somewhere and copy your wac_nearside.tif file inside the Files subfolder.
4 Double click Zoom.blend from the Files subfolder
Click the Animation button.


Wait more or less 2 hours ( the earth is heavy because of it's real atmosphere - you can disable the atmosphere to speed up the renderring time . You can of course use less compression at the bottom of the H264 presets)

If you remove the earth, rendering time will be around 10 minutes. You can remove stars to speed up everything .

Note: you can stop the render by pressing several times Esc at ANY time, your video will be ok from begining to your end point.

Didier.


john_dennis wrote on 1/9/2014, 10:51 AM
In Vegas Pro you must put a solid color track (in this case black 0,0,0,) as the bottom track if the tracks above have transparency or if your crop extends outside your picture, otherwise the Computer to Studio RGB filter won't work and you'll have parts of the video at RGB 0,0,0 and the parts where you're picture exists at 16, 16, 16 for black.