Let's say I have an event that I want to zoom into. The event will start as a single point in the picture, then expand to full size. Perhaps this is a transition; perhaps the event is just opening up over a black background.
Given my druthers, I'd use the pan/crop tool. It gives me great control, i.e., I can keyframe any number of points along the zoom. Unfortunately, its extremely cumbersome when working in the very small range: You cannot select the sizing points easily so you wind up typing sizes into the fields, and its extremely "coarse". I don't have enough zooming control in the pan/crop editor. IOW, I know *how* to use the pan/crop tool to do this, but its awkward.
(Aside: I tend to use very large stills, and I have trouble fitting the controls into the pan/crop window, i.e., the min 12.5% zoom should go lower. But that's another issue.)
Or I could find a transition that does it for me. To be honest, I generally/only use straight cuts or the simple dissolve transition, so I'm very inexperienced at this. I find all the "push/squeeze" transitions annoying. Over the weekend I played with the "spiral in" transition and couldn't figure out how to control the path or event size at all. I quit in frustration.
Can anyone suggest some transitions to look at and how to control them? Basically zooming in and out from zero size. One event zooming in while another zooms out. Any ideas appreciated.
Thinking about it, I guess the 3D LE plugin would work. You'd have to type the values into fields rather than dragging around a rectangle size, but I could live with that.
Given my druthers, I'd use the pan/crop tool. It gives me great control, i.e., I can keyframe any number of points along the zoom. Unfortunately, its extremely cumbersome when working in the very small range: You cannot select the sizing points easily so you wind up typing sizes into the fields, and its extremely "coarse". I don't have enough zooming control in the pan/crop editor. IOW, I know *how* to use the pan/crop tool to do this, but its awkward.
(Aside: I tend to use very large stills, and I have trouble fitting the controls into the pan/crop window, i.e., the min 12.5% zoom should go lower. But that's another issue.)
Or I could find a transition that does it for me. To be honest, I generally/only use straight cuts or the simple dissolve transition, so I'm very inexperienced at this. I find all the "push/squeeze" transitions annoying. Over the weekend I played with the "spiral in" transition and couldn't figure out how to control the path or event size at all. I quit in frustration.
Can anyone suggest some transitions to look at and how to control them? Basically zooming in and out from zero size. One event zooming in while another zooms out. Any ideas appreciated.
Thinking about it, I guess the 3D LE plugin would work. You'd have to type the values into fields rather than dragging around a rectangle size, but I could live with that.