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Moving an object along a curved path
I am trying to get a ball to bounce across the background in a reasonably lifelike manner. Using Pan/Crop, I can get it to progress in a series of triangular lurches, but can’t work out how to get a smoother, curved path.
Is there a simple way in Vegas Pro to do this without resorting to inserting lots of keyframes? Or is there a plug-in which will let me do it?
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6 Replies
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Pretty sure there’s no way to do it without a lot of key frames and I know of no plug-in that will do the trick either.
Roger Bansemer
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None.
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Thanks for your replies, Guys. I was afraid that would be the case.
However, having experimented a bit more, I have discovered that by offsetting the centre of rotation in the Pan/Crop window, and then rotating about the new centre, a reasonable approximation to the flight of the ball results. It’s a bit fiddly getting the initial and end positions correct, but far easier than plotting dozens of keyframes.
Hope this might help others with a similar problem in the future.
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I haven’t tried it but doesn’t the pan-crop tool have a setting that allows you to set the amount of smoothness that is used between key frames? It might me worth checking out.
Thanks in advance
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it is the only thing that i really miss in vegas: moving an object on a curved path, like you can do in after effects. could you share your project, i mean your event with your pan/crop settings? i wish i could take a look at your experiments with it.
regards,
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That’s interesting about the “rotate from center” but that means that the video will tilt. You haven’t found a way to make it do that and still keep the video horizontal have you?
I have often wanted to pan around a shot without going in a straight line. I guess that will be the next upgrade for 150 bucks.Roger Bansemer
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