Problems Zooming In…

[Don Bloom]

Yes. At the beginning of the event, in the P/C window, set your point you want the zoom to be at, then move down the timeline in the P/C window and click in a new keyframe by ‘right clicking’ and setting to ‘restore’. This will set the pan/crop back to the original size of the event.
HTHs
Don

[Seth Kopchu]

When you say set the zoom that I want, do you mean manually click the jpeg picture and then open up the Pan/Crop window, and click around and zoom it in until I got it, then proceed to do what you said? Beause I create the new keyframe, but when I right click, there is no restoring.

[Mike Kujbida]

What Don means is to move the cursor (in the Pan/Crop window) to the point that you want the zoom to end and then right-click in the main Pan/Crop window itself (not on the timeline) and select Restore.
Make sense now?

[Seth Kopchu]

Actually, I should correct myself:

I don’t want to restore the picture back – I want take it, zoom in a certain part, and then slowly pull back away from the zoomed in poing back to where it then restores itself. Do I need a plugin to do that or is it already on Vegas 6?

[Don Bloom]

no plugin needed. Just use keyframes in the tileline in the Pan/Crop window and to do the pull out simply set a keyframe where you need it and then resize the image.

Play around with it a bit, you can’t hurt anything and I think you’ll find what you need in the pan/crop window woth keyframes.

Don

[Mike Kujbida]

Seth, there seems to be a communication problem as what Don suggested is the way to do it but, for whatever reason, you’re not understanding it.
Vegas can do this very easily without any plugins so let’s go through this step by step and see if we can get you going on it.

#1. Import a picture and drag it up to the timeline.
The default image length is 5 sec.
If you need it to be longer, place the cursor at the right-hand edge of the image and, while holding the left mouse button, drag it longer.
For this example, I’d suggest making it 10 sec. long.

#2. Open the Pan/Crop window.
Move this window over so that you can see the Preview window in Vegas at the same time.
The first frame is automatically a keyframe and any adjustments you make to the image will be the starting point so set the zoom on the image as desired. The “F” will be shrunk and positioned where you want things to start.

#3. Now click the cursor so that it’s at the end of the the timeline.
Move up to the center of the Pan/Crop window, right-click on the image and select “Restore”.
The “F” will now take up the entire image.

That’s it. Close the Pan/Crop window and play it to see if you like the result.
You may need to set the Preview window to Preview/Auto to ensure smooth playback of the zoom out.
If the effect is not exactly what you wanted, open the Pan/Crop window again and adjust as required.

[Edward Troxel]

You might want to look through Vol 1 #8 and Vol 2 #8 of my newsletters.

Edward Troxel