Zooming with Pan Crop in 16:9 ratio

celticmuse wrote on 1/9/2009, 1:28 PM
Hi-

I hope someone can help me out.

I have Vegas Movie Studio 9.0.

I typically use a 4:3 aspect ratio for my videos. In which case, it's always been easy for me to use the pan crop tool to create a slow zoom in throughout the duration of a clip. Giving a nice music video effect. I'd simply go to the end of the clip and set how far I wanted to zoom in by then, and interpolation took care of the rest.

Lately I prefer to use a 16:9 ratio to get the black wide screen bars. My zoom technique does not work with this. I've tried playing with various combos of source settings in pan crop (a) yes/no stretch to fill frame (b) yes/no maintain aspect ratio. Those things merely change the size of the pic and keep it the same regardless of where I put a keyframe maker, or just shrink/increase the black bars.

I have even tried to put a zoom transition on a clip and extend it over the whole thing, but it just looks weird or goes too fast.

Can someone tell me how to get/control a zoom through with 16:9 aspect ratio?

Thanks so much!

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 1/9/2009, 1:34 PM
If you want black bars, create a PNG file that has black bars and it's transparent in the center, put it on the first video track, and keep your 4:3 settings. This way you can do whatever you did before, and still have letterboxing.
celticmuse wrote on 1/9/2009, 1:56 PM
Hey Eugenia :)

Thanks for the quick response. I should have mentioned I've tried doing that too with a mask, but if you use flashes for i.e. as a transition, it "breaks" the bars (at least on my comp) during the flash and it looks like a glitch on the clip. To that end, I've tried fixing it by stopping the mask rt before the flash begins to no avail.

Eugenia wrote on 1/9/2009, 2:16 PM
If you put the png file on the first video track this shouldn't happen. It works fine for me here.
sibeliusfan wrote on 1/10/2009, 1:58 PM
If you're using 16:9, why not set up your whole project to be 16:9 from the start? No black bars, but zooming/pan/crop will look better. Why have black bars anyway if the project is 16:9? All that is is a 4:3 project but with widescreen footage. Simply having a widescreen project to go with your widescreen footage would seem to make more sense.