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Cropping a video event to fit inside an image on another track
I am trying to crop a video to fit inside the image of a Polaroid frame that sits in a different track. I did it for my experimental trial of this portion of my vid. However, now that I have adjusted the Polaroid frame to a different placement on the screen, I can not figure out how to move the video to its new location to match the new Polaroid location. The new location is fairly similar to the old location, maybe up and over a tad bit. What I want to do is pick up the exact same section of the screen that I put in the frame on the trial run, but when I try to move it, it simply moves which area of the video can be seen on the Polaroid frame, rather than moving the entire picture to the left or right. How can I pick up the vid event and move it all left, right, up, or down?
Thanks!
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Going to use Parent Track, Track Motion.
OK, keeping it simple:-
Track 2 – Frame
Track 3 – Video
Now . . .
Make Track 1 the PARENT to Track to T2 and T3
Go to the Parent Track Motion Control in T1 and you will be able to move the Track Motion Control to have the T2+T3 Move in ANY part of your screen.
Frame and Video UP
Frame and Video DOWN
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
This is awesome information. Thank you. I am new at using all the different effects and tools Sony has to offer, so this has actually taught me something I am glad to know. However, as I play around with your instructions, I find that the track motion simply takes the whole vid event and compacts it into the frame. Here is the whole spiel so you can better see what is entailed here.
I have taken the first frame of the vid event (which is people slow dancing), and made a screencap of it. The screencap is in the Polaroid frame just before the vid event. So basically it goes from a still image of them dancing, to them actually moving while still in the Polaroid frame. Now when I made the screencap, I had the vid zoomed in and I was able to use that same zoom-in for the moving vid the first time I put these clips together. But, like I said in my original post, I have moved the Polaroid frame on the screen. This I did by making a photo collage in GIMP and then importing it into my vid project. What I do not understand is why I was able to manipulate that zoomed-in shot into the Polaroid frame on my trial run, but cannot get it into the new Polaroid frame location (which really isn’t very far from the trial run location). I am thinking maybe I will have to try to re-do my GIMP collage to replicate the exact same location from the trial run (which is NOT gonna be an easy task, I think!) Could it be that the trial run worked because it happened to be close to the zoomed-in view’s actual location in the vid before it was moved? I am thinking maybe I should try PIP? That skill I have already learned on my own.
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Debbie you’re welcome!
Your task is real hard to understand through the “medium” of TEXT! LOL…. Could you do some simple pencil and paper sketches and load them here?
While may be doing that, I’ll have another go:
A] You have a Collage of say of 12×12 videos/Stills(they can become video)
B] You have a “wandering” Frame that you want to fall over a chosen part of the Collage and then ZOOM the Collage till it fills the inside of the frame and have the video play from there.
Intially, for me, you’re going to need to break down that dense paragraph into simple steps so I can understand what you are trying to achieve. I’m finding it real hard to make a determination as to what didn’t happen for you this time around. – Yeah?
Trying to assist here . .
Grazie
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge -
Well.. it seems that your suggestion of playing around with the track motion did the trick… eventually. Basically I cropped the image down to what was close to the practice run, then used track motion to place it inside the Polaroid frame. I think my problem was that I was trying to do the job by using only Pan/crop (which actually worked in the trial run) or track motion. When I finally tried using the 2 tools together… VOILE! However, I could not get a perfect match, so I had to make a snapshot of the still photo in the frame and substitute it in for the one I made on GIMP. It was the longer way around, but technically not the longer way cuz I was able to solve the problem faster than trying to get the crop/tracking precision to match the original.
Thank you so much for your help! You have given me more than just a fix to this issue, but also the understanding of a tool I can now use for many more projects!
BTW, when I tried the composite child thing, when I clicked on “track motion,” it only gave me the parent motion to track. It did not put the other tracks in the window with it. I only say this because on a tutorial I watched about it, it showed on their screen in their track motion box a mini-window for the parent track, plus a mini-window for each of the 2 child tracks associated with it. Did I do something wrong, or is that only in the Pro version (which I do not have)?
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[Debbie Lynn] ” Did I do something wrong, or is that only in the Pro version (which I do not have)?”
I’ve no idea? Sorry.
G
Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge
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