Zooming stills in a time lapse sequence

brianw wrote on 11/12/2009, 5:44 AM

Hi, scripting is still a mystery to me. I am using stills of high def from a cam taking pics every 15 seconds for time lapse segments in a video of a house build. It would be good on occasions to zoom,pan or crop. Track motion works fine of course but the advantage of the higher def of the stills is lost as track motion only works at the video definition. Can a script apply identical pan and crop to a series of (hundreds) stills which are just files of 1 frame.
TIA, Brian

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JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/12/2009, 2:23 PM

> Can a script apply identical pan and crop to a series of (hundreds) stills which are just files of 1 frame.

Yes it can but why bother? Just import the frames as a still image sequence and apply the pan/crop to the entire event just once.

~jr

brianw wrote on 11/12/2009, 3:52 PM

Thanks, JohnnyRoy, I never knew you could do that, I'm not going to live long enough to learn all of Vegas capabilities.LOL

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/13/2009, 11:40 AM

> I never knew you could do that

Yea, you use File | Import | Media. Then select the first image only and check the box at the bottom of the Import window that says: Open still image sequence and click Open. The next window that opens is very important. On the media tab you want to set the frame rate to accurately reflect the rate of each image so that the sequence plays back at the desired speed.

~jr