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Panning larger resolution event within a project
SVP12 Pro.
I thought this would be easier, but I obviously some something simple, wrong.
I have a project with the properties set to 1280 x 720.
I have several events containing media at this resolution.
I have one media clip of 1920 x 1080, and I want to place this on a track and ‘move around’ within the event so that at any stage I have a ‘window’ of 1280 x 720 onto the clip. The clip contains green-screen footage of birds flying and they are far too large, so I want to zoom out on this track so they are much smaller.
The problem is that no matter what I do the pan/crop window does not appear to allow me pan around the track – it seems to treat it as 1280×720.
I have tried unsetting the ‘maintain aspect ration’ and ‘stretch to fill frame’. I have also tried track motion and it all gives the same result.
Ideally I would like to zoom out on the 1920 clip so it is 1280, thus making the birds in the clip much smaller…
I have confirmed the footage is definitely 1920×1080
I have followed various tutorials and none of them seem to address this specific issue.
Many thanks for any pointers on how to achieve this.
STBO.
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Your Track Motion keyframe should be 1280×720.
Your P/C keyframes can be between 1920×1080 down to 128×720, probably maintaining the 16:9 aspect ratio.Vegas will then scale the Event to 1280×720 at the x-y-z location specified by your Track Motion keyframe.
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Tyson,
Thanks for the info. To be honest I am a little lost.
When you say ‘Your Track Motion keyframe should be 1280×720.’ what do you mean – do you mean the width/height settings? What am I keyframing?
Also, when I set the P/C size to 1280/720 the image is now much bigger.
Apologies – but I have no idea where to start with what you are saying – what am I keyframing, and when?
Thanks,
STBO
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[Stewart Bourke] “Apologies – but I have no idea where to start with what you are saying – what am I keyframing, and when?”
Go into Pan/Crop for the media that is 1920×1080 and set the width to 1280 and height to 720 and you will have the Pan window that you are after.
~jr
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> do you mean the width/height settings? What am I keyframing?
Yes, the width and height should be 1280×720. If this matches your project settings, then that Track uses the entire display region. Eg., if you made it 854×480 (also 16:9), then you could position it within your (larger) 1280×720 display region.> when I set the P/C size to 1280/720 the image is now much bigger.
Your project ix 1280×720.
Your Event is 1920×1080.On your 1280×720 Track …
If you put a 1280×720 P/C keyframe on that Event, then that should be shown, pixel for pixel.
If you put a 1600×900 P/C keyframe on that Event, then that should be shown (scaled down to 1280×720).
If you put a 1920×1080 P/C keyframe on that Event, then the entire Event should be shown but scaled down to 1280×720. -
Folks,
Thank you all for the replies. it has helped me greatly understand what is going on.
having worked through all the answers and experimented I see now the relationships and realise I was making things far too complicated for myself by over-thinking it.
Thanks,
STBO.
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