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Newbie Question: Pause in Motion During Panning
I’m new to Vegas and have taught myself quite a bit, but I’m having a very simple problem that is driving me crazy. I’m creating a movie from a series of still images, and I fade from one image into another by overlapping the media files on the timeline. I then apply subtle panning effects to each of the files. However, I always end up a with pause/freeze/hiccup in the panning motion, which occurs just before the next image begins to fade in. I can’t figure out why this happens. Why doesn’t the panning motion continue smoothly through the fade? (Forgive that fact that I have no idea what terms to use to ask the question properly; I hope that I’ve been intelligible, at least!) Thanks in advance for any insight!
Erin
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4 Replies
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Check that your Pan/Crop keyframes are reaching the end of your event. If you make an event longer after you create keyframes, the keyframes will need to be moved or else they will end too early which sounds like what you are experiencing.
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Thanks so much, John and Roger! I appreciate the tip, as I had not yet thought about the fact that lengthening a clip would result in a last keyframe that was not aligned with the end of the clip. As I went into each of my clips to explore this, however, it became clear to me that all of my last keyframes were already aligned with the end of the clip. (None of my clips have been lengthened since being dropped onto the timeline, as I set my preferences to the desired clip length before starting this project. This may, however, been the problem in some of my previous projects.) Here’s where it gets interesting, though: Just to practice this skill, I slid the last keyframe to the left (earlier in the clip) and then slid it back into its original position (at the end of the clip). After doing this, the pause/freeze/hiccup went away — and the panning continued smoothly through the fade! It seems like a strange solution to me, given that the keyframe was already at the end of the clip to begin with. I’ve tried it on each clip in the project, and it reliably solved the problem! I’m still left a bit frustrated, though, as this makes so little sense to me. (I assure you that the last keyframes were ALREADY aligned with the end of each clip, so I’m not sure why adjusting them and then moving them back would make a difference.) This will be a very time-consuming fix, and I’m hoping to find a more direct way to solve this problem in the future…
If you have any other ideas, let me know! Regardless, your ideas prompted a discovery that has fixed the problem — and I am so grateful for your time!
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I would not base too many changes on preview performance. Preview speed is affected by several things. The rendered version of the video should not exhibit these hiccups, and the rendered version is what counts.
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