Panning photo off screen

[Edward Troxel]

You can always use Track Motion.

Edward Troxel

[Scott]

I would like to have the individual events pan acrosss the entire screen and then off the screen. Shouldn’t I be able to do this with the pan/crop effects on an event? Do I have to use Track Motion for this this?

thx, scott

[Rick Wise]

Easy. Open PanCrop; Place your cursor in the circle. The cursor now becumes a 4-way arrow. Slide the picture one way or the other. (If you want the picture to move just horizontally, toggle the little 4-way arrow on the left of the pannel until it shows just a horizontal arrow.) Obviously, you will need to use keyframes to find the beginning position, and the end. (If the photo does not fill the frame and you want it to, right click in PanCrop and select “Match Output Aspect” — you will need to do this at both the start point and end point.)

Rick

Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
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[Edward Troxel]

Yes, it can work with Pan/Crop. You may need to changes some of the default settings to get it to work exactly the way you want.

Generally speaking, you use Pan/Crop to crop an image or pan across an image. You use Track Motion to adjust the postion of the image on the screen. However, Pan/Crop CAN do both.

Edward Troxel

[Ted Snow]

Change to the 4:3 aspect ratio from the pull-down at the top of the pan/crop window first, then you can move it anyway you like, even off screen.

[Edward Troxel]

I always to a “Match Aspect” (usually via a script) which will also allow it to move in any direction fully off the screen.

Edward Troxel

[Scott]

Hi everyone and thanks for you all your suggestions.

I have tried all of these ideas and still having limited success.

There seem to be some limits to my panning. I have played with it and it appears that there is a relationship between the size of the image, the size of the frame, and the area of panning.
If I adjust the size of my image to the frame (i.e. making the image somewhat larger) I can get the image to pan all the way across the screen and eventually end up off screen. Knowing this I can probably get the effect that I’m looking for this project.

However it would seem to me that at some point I may find that this limits my panning of smaller objects.
Is this understanding correct or am I missing something more fundamental.

Thanks again for all the great suggestions…scott

[James_j]

I agree that Track Motion is what you want when you need to move something completely off screen. Pan/zoom is really just for moving around inside a frame.

But even easier than that would be to just use a transition; there are dozens that are _designed_ to move objects off screen.

>ps – I have used other video editing tools (i.e. Media Studio) and I find the Vegas’ Pan/Zoom function complicated.

I came from MSP also and you’re only partially correct. The Pan/zoom is _different_, but much easier to use once you get the basic settings correct.

[Edward Troxel]

After you open Pan/Crop, right-click the image and choose “Match Output Aspect”. You should be able to resize and move on/off the screen as desired at that point.

Edward Troxel