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How to avoid images being cropped in subsequences or nests?
Hey there! I tried searching for a solution but I couldn’t find a good one, so I’m getting real desperate and need to ask the question. I’m not a pro in premiere pro, so maybe I just missed something simple.
I’m making an animated short film, and I’m timing the animatic’s images in premiere pro. So basically I imported a bunch of images and making them longer or shorter depending on the action and all. But I want to put camera movements on the shots, but a shot is not one image but multiple images, poses of the action. So shortly I want to put a camera movement on multiple images, not individually but as a whole.
The images are larger than the camera frame to make them move from one place to another imitating the camera movement of course. To do that I tried to put the shot’s images into a nested sequence or a subsequence (not exactly sure what’s the difference btw, but I tried both), but both of these cropped the images… Another thing I discovered through searching the net, that making another simple sequence of these images and dragging that into my main sequence does not crop the image, which is good, but I lose the timing I’ve put on the images because I think you can only create these sequences from the project window with the settings those images had at first, also I have like a LOT of shots, hundreds, that would mean I’d have to work with hundreds of sequences, which I’m not sure if that’s a good idea… So here I am now trying to search for a better solution.
If anyone knows anything that could help, I’d be very very grateful!
Also another thing I thought of though might not exist is moving the camera frame around, like really making a camera movement, not a layer movement of the image, is that maybe possible?Thank you for any tips in advance!
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I would probably port this over to AE rather than try and make PPro do something it’s not quite suited for.
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When you set the properties of the source clips, there’s I think an option on the scaling – i know FCPX does this, and I think PPro might too – that tells the NLE you want everything scaled to fill the frame size… or not. If you’re planning to make moves on these stills, you definitely want the “fill to frame” or whatever they call that option – turned off, right from the outset. The once your clips are nested into a container, you can do the XYZ moves and scaling you need on a global basis.
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+1 on doing this in After Effects instead of Premiere.
But if you must use Premiere, make your nested sequence bigger than your master sequence. For example, if your master sequence is HD, make your scenes UHD (3840×2160). Then when you put the scene into your master, you’ll have plenty of room to move around without cropping.
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