Creating animated zoom/pan with background in Marquee Tool

[John Cuevas]

Marquee isn’t the easiest tool to use, but is pretty powerful, though you have to put up with very slow renders.

Open Marquee and import your image, a larger image will work better.
Turn on th animation mode, the filmstrip icon.
Under “File” go to “Duration” change the duration to what you need.
If not open, go to “Window” then “Properties” —“Transform”
Set up the starting position of your animation.
Now scrub to the timeline(Open window if not already open) or use the timecode in the viewer to move to end of timeline.
Set up ending positions.

“File” “Save to Bin”

Johnny Cuevas, Editor
http://www.ckandco.net

[Don Logan]

No there is no easy way of learning Marquee. Keyframing can be differcult if you have a lot going on. I would say start simple and work up when trying to learn keyframing. Also a good tip to know is that when you turn the animation icon on it will act and apply a relevant key frame at that point in the timlime/animation.

Renders can be fast but it will totally depend of your handware… if it aint tip top, put the kettle on jonesy.

[Stefan Denmark]

Thanks guys,
I knew I could count on you for a relevant answer, but I want to crank it up one more notch.
The image I’ve got is a text document.
I want to make a “flying motion” where I kind of tilt/pivot the image on the z-axis, and then come flying in from the bottom up close to the text and then stop on a word or sentence. (does this make sence?)

I find it difficult to tilt/pivot the image when it’s imported. Mostly because I can’t seem to change the angle of the virtuel “camera”.

Stefan

[Michael Hancock]

It shouldn’t be too difficult to tilt/pivot the image. Select the object you want to tilt/pivot, then select the thing that looks like a wireframe ball in your tool palette. This should throw that wireframe ball type image over your object–move your mouse around it and you’ll see that different a different axis will show when you point to it–the X-Axis, Y-Axis, Z-Axis, and this will lock your movement to that Axis. So if you want it to rotate 360 degrees on the Y-Axis, move your mouse over the X-Axis and rotate your object 360 degrees by clicking on the Axis and dragging right or left.

I don’t know that you can actually animate the camera, but you can animate the objects to make it appear that the camera is moving. So tilt your object how you want it to start, go forward in your timeline, tilt it to where you want it to end, and pull the Z-Axis to make it look like you’re zooming in on it until you land on the sentence you want to see.

Marquee is tricky–I’ve found it helpful to load one of the Marquee templates then dissect it to see how it works. Best of luck!

Mike.

[Don Logan]

Also with fly in’s go to the window were your image is, and hit either CTRL- or ALT- and it will reduce your screen size, making it easier to postion text before it appears in view.