getting a handle on pan/crop & trak motion

[Edward Troxel]

[michael o’connor] “Is everything on a time line affected by using trak motion, but only the clip you’re working on is affected with pan/crop?”

Track motion will affect everything on that track. Naturally you can add additional key frames and return it back to “normal”. Pan/Crop works only on that one individual event.

[michael o’connor] “I have several pictures on a clip and want to zoom in on individual pics with pan/crop. That worked ok, but then I used trak motion to move the pic to a certain part of the screen. Now when I play back my project, film on that same trak placed earlier on the trak is out of place!”

Sounds like you did everything correct except adding the necessary keyframes to move the track back to “normal”. However, you might find this workflow easier: ADD MORE TRACKS. Then you can put those images which need track motion on their own track and the stuff that doesn’t need track motion can be left alone on another track.

[michael o’connor] “And is there a way to turn off the pan crop or trak motion once you turned it on and go back to the start point of the clip so there isn’t any pan/crop or trak motion.”

Yes there is. If you have more than one keyframe, delete the additional keyframes. Now select the first keyframe, right-click Pan/Crop or Track Motion image, and choose the option to reset back to default.

Edward Troxel

[Michael O’connor]

Excellent! That was a big help. Much appreciated and especially for the quick response.