How to scale, move image within non moving matte

[Jon Barrie]

Yes it would appear to be an unexpected result when animating a clip using the track matte feature…

If you must do this in PPro and don’t have or feel comfortable with After Effects then this is a workflow that can get you off the ground.

Nest each of the clips and scale them to 50% and position them so they are exactly fitted into each corner making 4 perfectly fitting panels. I think I will make a template for this…

In each nested sequence will be the actual clip you want to animate. This will require some back and forth to check the animation is fitting into the frame the way you want it when it is in the 4 panel composition but think of the nest for each panel as the full view of the panel… if that makes any sense… 🙂

Basically, as you have already set each nested sequence to 50% but the original clip inside is actually at 100%, when you come to animate you will be animating the actual clip from 100% fitting the full frame – if you scale that clip to 200% of its original scale, when you look at it from the 50% scaled nest in the composition sequence it has the appearance of a cropped to the panel zoomed look which is then actually the clip at 100%.

Sorry if this is sounding confusing it’s rather tricky to explain the concept without spelling it out, which would take up the better part of “far too long” so I might just make a tutorial.

I see your point in that using the track matte doesn’t function as expected. I’ll file a bug report/feature request and hope it gets sorted in an update. 🙂

– JB

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[Andy Milne]

Many thanks for taking the time with your explanation Jon and yes a tutorial would be great when you have the time. I will give that a try today. I haven’t used After Effects much yet so that is my next project. After 20 years in the TV edit industry I have had a 10 year break so am on a fast learning curve.

I am glad you found the same problem with the track matte, I thought it was me 🙂 I had expected a crop to zoom with the image but a track matte to be a static effect on the track itself.

Thanks for posting a bug/feature request.

Cheers
Andy

[Jon Barrie]

Hey Andy here is the tutorial I said I might make.

https://youtu.be/AKdTQ68G7OY

Hope it makes sense, seeing as you probably already have built it up.

Cheers,

JB

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[Andy Milne]

Hey Jon

Great tutorial thanks. After your posting here I did get the project working but thanks again for taking the trouble over the tutorial.

Cheers
Andy