Tilt/Pan

[John Rofrano]

[Gary Badgley] ” I think I have a fairly good one”

What tripod do you have? It is all about the quality of the fluid head that you use.

[Gary Badgley] “Maybe copy one of the last frames where there was no jitter over and over again creating this rock solid pause?”

You can certainly do this but having the proper equipment to shoot with is a lot easier.

~jr

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[Bruce Quayle]

Like John said, a good fluid head…and lots of practice.

Can’t say that you would be able to achieve a decent rock-solid ending using freeze-frame, as not only would you see a slight jarring effect when you freeze the shot, but you will also lose any movement that may be happening inside your frame.

If there isn’t going to be any movement within the frame, another idea might be to simply use a still photograph (wide shot) of your buildings and create your movement by using pan, tilt and zoom effects within Vegas itself. You can then control any movement by using key frames and smooth them out as you prefer. Won’t get much more rock-solid than that.

Cheers,
Bruce

[Jerry Irving]

Hi, Gary,

[Gary Badgley] “Maybe copy one of the last frames where there was no jitter over and over again creating this rock solid pause?”

This can be easy to do in two ways and, if I’m understanding correctly what you want to achieve, will work very well:

1.
-select a frame that you want to display during the pause,
-set video preview quality to ‘Best(Full),’
-click on the ‘save snapshot to file…’ button at the top of the Video Preview pane,
-locate the snapshot file & add it to a new video track above the existing one, and
-stretch the snapshot event to the time-length you need.

or

2. (if using Sony Vegas Pro)
-In the video event that you want to pause, right-click and select ‘Insert/Remove Envelope|Velocity’
-Locate the exact frame that you want to display during the pause
-(for accuracy, zoom your timeline to display each frame on the timeline separately)
-set your mouse cursor on the velocity line, in the video event, and on the frame you selected above (cursor will change to a hand & pop-up text will say ‘velocity’)
-right-click & select “Add Point”
-just to the right of the ‘point’ that you just ‘added’, and STILL WITHIN THE FRAME you selected above, add another point
-set your mouse cursor on the second point (cursor will chg to a hand), right click and select ‘Set To…’
-type ‘0’ (the zero key) and press ‘enter’
-Done