Pan and Crop feature - motion across stills?

grjohnson

grjohnson

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I know that the Pan and Crop feature in Vegas can be used to zoom the size of source material and crop the source, as well. The help section says it can also be used to give motion to stills, but I am not sure how to do this.

What I want to do is take an digitized photo, zoom in on one side, then slowly pan across the image to the other side. Say I wanted to display the still for about 10 seconds, and have the picture pan across the photo for 10 seconds, how is this done in Vegas?
Thanks
 
You have to use keyframes for this. Start by opening the pan/crop window and zoom in where you want the picture to start. Then, move the timeline cursor within the pan/crop window at the bottom say to 4 seconds later and move your frame to the position you want it to be by that point and so on. Then, exit out of that window and preview it in real time. If you don't like it then go back and you can simply drag the little keyframes and move them to speed up the movement or whatever.
Jgastelb
 
jgastelb said:
You have to use keyframes for this. Start by opening the pan/crop window and zoom in where you want the picture to start. Then, move the timeline cursor within the pan/crop window at the bottom say to 4 seconds later and move your frame to the position you want it to be by that point and so on. Then, exit out of that window and preview it in real time. If you don't like it then go back and you can simply drag the little keyframes and move them to speed up the movement or whatever.
Jgastelb
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I've never used keyframes before. I tired your instructions, but I must still be doing soemthing wrong cause I can't get it to work. Would you please be so kind as to give me a step-by-step procedure for accomplising this. Assume you are explaining it to a neophite, because there is still much about this editor that I am clueless about. Thanks in advance.
 
1. Open your Crop/pan window from the given track.
2. Use a letterbox default such as 16:9 from the given choices on your top right arrow window.
3. Once you have those imaginary lines drawn on top of your footage use a corner from the frame to zoom in or out or move it up or down. At the bottom of the pan/crop window you see a timeline ready to be played with.
4. Drag that timeline at the bottom of the pan/crop window with the lever and move it to the right so that now you're at a different time of your track.
5. Do something different with your framing such as by dragging the corners now you're more to the right or whatever. Vegas automatically does the keyframing for you. You will now see a little diamond shape placed at the timeline indicating that it's keyframed to do something other than the first thing you did.
6. Close the pan/crop window and play your video and see the changes you did.

PS. You may have to drag that window to make it bigger if you can't see the timeline at the bottom.
 
I do this all the time with digital photos I take during production (on docs and industrials.) Looks very slick and professional.

If you get jaggies or flickering, you will need to add a .3 "Quick Blur", and possibly use sub-pixel rendering for those scenes (requires more keyframes, and dramatically slows down rendering.)
 
jgastelb said:
1. Open your Crop/pan window....PS. You may have to drag that window to make it bigger if you can't see the timeline at the bottom.
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Dear jgastelb,
Thank you SO MUCH for the patience and taking the time to help we master this Vegas editor feature. Here is a link to a short piece of work I just did using that feature: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7723105887301445960

When I worked in TV 20 years ago, to accomplish this would require putting blowups of still pictures on cards, light them correctly, then manually pan a TV camera to video tape them. This would require a whole team of people. Amazing that with today's computer technology just one person can do it all on a laptop.

I've been using Vegas 6-7 for about two years and I am still discovering new ways to do things. Again, thank you and all the others in this forum for the assistance.
Gaines Johnson
 
Nice job grjohnson,

I wish everbody would come back with evidence that the instruction they received
had some value...instead of 'hit and run' with no feedback. Helps make it a learning experience for everybody! Wish more would do this!
 
bwest said:
Nice job grjohnson,

I wish everbody would come back with evidence that the instruction they received
had some value...instead of 'hit and run' with no feedback. Helps make it a learning experience for everybody! Wish more would do this!
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What he said.
 
grjohnson said:
. . .I've been using Vegas 6-7 for about two years and I am still discovering new ways to do things. Again, thank you and all the others in this forum for the assistance.
Gaines Johnson
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Does this mean the advice given will only work with V6 or V7? I am using V5 and have never seen a need to upgrade (till now, that is!).
KARL DALLAS
 
karldallas said:
Does this mean the advice given will only work with V6 or V7? I am using V5 and have never seen a need to upgrade (till now, that is!).
KARL DALLAS
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No. Most things will apply to Vegas 5 as well. The basic features of Pan/Crop have not changed
 
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