Sony Vegas Video – Pan/Zoom using Parent Motion

[Steve Rhoden]

There is no limitation in the task you are trying to do….
you only need to use the track motion features.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
Project Samples at:
http://www.youtube.com/hentys

[Brad Miller]

The size of my monitor has nothing to do with what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the Vegas project settings. It limits you to 2,048×2,048.

[Brad Miller]

I am using track motion. I cannot extend the images and videos beyond the the frame size my project is set at. That’s the problem.

So if I want to pan between multiple images, they all have to be at resolutions smaller that whatever my project settings are, which Vegas 8 limits to a maximum of 2048×2048.

Here’s an example I made depicting the problem: https://www.vimeo.com/7014885

[Brad Miller]

This person disagrees with you and states that there is a limitation:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/900236

[Bob Peterson]

Lots of people may disagree. That doesn’t mean they are correct.

I don’t know what you are trying to achieve, but I just implemented a panoramic image (photo) in an SD project. I was able to get it to full vertical size, and pan across the horizontal dimension using Pan/Crop. I simply set the “Maintain Aspect” control to “No”, and selected the preset “1:1 Square Aspect Ratio”. I also manually adjusted the zoom settings to see what I wanted to see. It may take some experimentation to get it to look right, but I was able to do exactly what I wanted which is to pan across a fairly wide image.

[Brad Miller]

You’re correct, there’s no problem panning across a single image…. I’m talking about tracking motion across multiple images and video as in the example I made and linked to.

[Bob Peterson]

If it is multiple images, then, as noted, track motion can handle the job without a problem. It ceases to become an issue of project dimensions and converts to the need to manage multiple tracks with track motion. Individual tracks may need Pan/Zoom processing in addition to track motion. It’s all very doable.

[Brad Miller]

That would only seem to work if you wanted each track to move independently. I want all tracks to move releative a fixed point as in the example I linked to. Something similar to this: https://www.revostock.com/After-Effects-Project/83793/Deluxe-Contact-Sheet.htm

[Bob Peterson]

One thing I’ve learned over the years. There does come a point where you have to do some work. Coordinating the movement of tracks is not difficult. It simply requires some effort. It does allow complete control over what each track is doing.

[Brad Miller]

Track Motion reduces the photo/video’s resolution to the project property’s resolution. So yes, I can create that effect, as I posted twice now, I already have.(https://www.vimeo.com/7014885). I used the excellent tutorial “Vegas Keyframe Interpolation Envelopes” by D. Eric Franks. It works fine if you keep the project small, as he did, just a small “postcard”

However the resolution of the individual photos becomes too low if you want to include many images and video because Sony Vegas limits you to the project property’s resolution for the parent track. So unless you can up the project property resolution to something like 4,000×4,000, I can see no way to achieve this same effect which the photos at a decent resolution.