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Digital zoom within a PIP – how?
I managed to use FCP’s Motion tab to create an arrangement of Pictures-In-Picture (PIPs). The arrangement consists of: a (large) PowerPoint image area, a video clip area (for clips of the presenter) and a text area.
Now I want to digitally zoom/pan around the video PIP. I imagine I need to apply the Motion tab again somehow but how do I do this when it resizes the size/position of the PIP itself in the arrangement, rather than just digitally zooming the image within it as I require? I tried applying Motion (tab) as a second stage via a separate Sequence but still Motion tab adjustments in the Sequence affected the size/position of a PIP based on that sequence (as an item in the timeline).
Is there a way out of this? Like making the sequence more independent somehow or by employing another method apart from Motion tab in FCP?
Reason for wanting to zoom within a PIP: the video of the presenter was shot in HD and I want to re-frame him. The target medium is lower-res than HD and the PIP is of course even lower res, so there should be plenty of scope in principle.
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Put the PIP image into its own sequence. Place the nest in the final sequence. Scale and position the PIP as needed. Go inside the nested sequence to adjust the scaling and positioning of the presenter.
All the best,
Tom
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Thanks Tom, it worked fine. Not sure what I did wrong before, but I guess I was just more awake this time.
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If you’re going to do a lot of this checkout Digital Heaven’s Box plugin. https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/dh_box
John
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