Crop hi-res JPG timelapse to a panning, zooming HD frame

[Larry Chapman]

To control each image’s motion separately – Drop the images onto a 1920×1080 sequence and keyframe the motion of each.

Or…drop your full resolution image sequence into a 1920×1080 sequence and keyframe that. I believe this option is what you’re looking for.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Lopici,

Assuming that the time-lapse has been processed to deal with exposure changes and other fun stuff that happens when one is standing in a spot for hours and hours, you could just import the sequence as an “image sequence”, so it appears as a video asset.

With regard to the size of it, as Larry suggested, when you pop it in the timeline, you can use the Effects Controls to re-size, add keyframes to make Zoom and Pan across the video.

Using a nested sequence within your HD Sequence is another consideration.

But it all comes down to the power of your hardware and the length of your time-lapse, in which case it might be more economically to turn the JPeg images into video?

Many potential solutions, but keep in mind that you will always end up on 1920×1080. So you might “only” need something that is 4,000 in width, rather than 7,008?
Only you will know, when you see it on your screen.

Have fun.

Atb
Mads

[Lopici Gaspar]

Thank you, worked! 2nd option I am using.

[Brie Clayton]

Thank you, Larry, for solving this issue!