Event Pan/Crop: “Feathering” Pans, Crops and Zooms

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Event Pan/Crop: “Feathering” Pans, Crops and Zooms

Posted by James Farnum on March 11, 2012 at 11:23 am

For a project involving many photos I am finding that pans, crops and zooms often start and end too abruptly, resulting in an unnatural look.

Even if I add additional keyframes one second or two after the start of the event and before the end of the event, the zoom or pan, when it begins, is still abrupt. Is there any way of “feathering” the start and end to duplicate the effect you can achieve with the fluid pan head of a tripod or the zoom rocker switch on high-grade video cameras?

Thanks for any tips.

Nigel O’neill replied 14 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
6 Replies

Mike Kujbida
March 11, 2012 at 1:59 pm

D. Eric Franks (used to hang around here a lot in the past) did an excellent tutorial called Vegas Keyframe Interpolation Envelopes that is well worth watching for tips on how to deal with your issues.
James Farnum
March 11, 2012 at 2:51 pm

Thanks very much, Mike, for your fast and very useful response. That certainly is a fine tutorial, but for a novice like me, it will take multiple viewings to comprehend fully.

A quick Google search for Mr. Franks brought up this website which might well be of interest to other forum members:

https://videopia.org/index.php/watch/training.html

At any rate, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Mike Kujbida
March 11, 2012 at 3:00 pm

James, I’ve been using Vegas for several years, done lots of slide shows and still have problems with pans and zooms from time to time.
I’ve used Lightwave 3D in the past and find the way Vegas does things (as far as zooming and panning is concerned) to leave a lot to be desired.
A number of us have asked for a few features to be implemented that would greatly help in doing this but our requests have fallen on deaf ears 🙁
That’s why I recommended the tutorial as he explains things very nicely.
Thanks for the link to his main tutorial page as there’s a lot if very useful information on it.
Nigel O’neill
March 11, 2012 at 8:50 pm

James

When key framing, have you tried right clicking on the marker and changing the motion to something else such as smooth? The default is linear.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6
James Farnum
March 12, 2012 at 8:26 am

Thanks so much, Nigel; that did the trick! “Smooth” is just what I was looking for, and the other options provide useful effects as well.

So what’s the moral of the story? Use your mouse more! If I had right-clicked to delete markers rather than using “delete” on my keyboard, I might have stumbled upon this myself.

Thanks again. And thanks to Mike Kujbida and D. Eric Franks. This is without a doubt the most helpful forum I have encountered on the internet — and I have poked my nose in quite a few.
Nigel O’neill
March 12, 2012 at 11:40 am

Thanks for your kind words. It’s great to be acknowledged.

My system specs: Intel i7 970, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 10e (x32/x64), Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S Pro 4.1, Neat Video Pro 2.6

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