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Vegas 6b: Panning Tool Zoom Out Problem
Here’s a situation I’ve had problems with:
I want to basically zoom out from one corner of a still picture (same size as a piece of normal video would be) to a view of the whole picture. I want to use the pan/crop tool to reduce the size of the frame to show only the lower right hand corner (for example). (The aspect ratio is maintained) I then want to use the pan/crop position keyframes to set the starting point (first keyframe) at the lower right hand corner, and the ending point (second keyframe) to show the entire picture. I have no problems so far.
However, when I play it back, the video starts at the lower right hand corner (point where the 1st keyframe was put in) and ends showing the entire picture (point where the 2nd keyframe was put in), but what’s in between is NOT the way I wanted it to look and not the way I wanted it to zoom out. Because of the way the frame expands, the zooming out/panning of the picture does not limit the frame to just the picture; the resulting video shows parts outside of the border of the picture. This looks bad because when the video zooms out, black bars can be seen in various places until the end. (The best way to understand this, if I didn -
3 Replies
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Try setting Smoothing in the left panel to Zero – it defaults to 100 and many have requested that it default to zero. Also check that the keyframes are linear.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au -
I changed the smoothness to 0 and it worked! Thanks!
Just wondering though, what does the smoothness option do? It seems pretty smooth to me with it being set to zero…
Thanks again!
Michael M.
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It introduces a slight curve at the beginning and end of a pathway – a sort of gradual “take off and landing” – which more often than not is not required, and that is why they’ve been asked to default the setting to zero. Glad the change worked for you.
Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au
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