Zooming

[Roger Bansemer]

There is a small icon on the left side of the track which looks like a white square with an arrow in it pointing to a light blue square.
That’s the “track motion” icon.
Click it and a window will open in which you can drag the corner of the box and it will resize the entire track.

[Joao Souza]

Thanks but I asked about all tracks at the same time and not only one track.

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka

[John Rofrano]

[Joao Souza] “Thanks but I asked about all tracks at the same time and not only one track.”

You can’t. You need to make each track the proper size. You could zoom one with Track Motion as Roger suggested and cut and paste the keyframes to zoom the others. The problem is that zooming with Track Motion will reduce the resolution and is not recommended.

If you are trying to crop and entire project, drop it into a new master project and crop the event that it creates with Pan/Crop.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Joao Souza]

Yep zooming with track motion = bad quality.
I don’t get it, why a program that was built to edit video doesn’t let me zoom a scene that has 10 tracks AS AN EXAMPLE?
That’s weird even for a noob like me.
If there’s a video output efx and whatever effect I put there video will follow, why there’s not a master pan/crop?
Hmm…………this ‘editing video noob’ thinks that’s strange.
Sorry if I’m saying something dumb cause I don’t how to develop programs but if there’s a master video efx, why not a master pan crop?
Who developed vegas?
I’ll sue him lol

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka

[John Rofrano]

[Joao Souza] “I don’t get it, why a program that was built to edit video doesn’t let me zoom a scene that has 10 tracks AS AN EXAMPLE?”

Why would you need to do this? I’ve been editing video for 12 years and I’ve never had to do this so it’s not a feature most people would need.

[Joao Souza] “Sorry if I’m saying something dumb cause I don’t how to develop programs but if there’s a master video efx, why not a master pan crop?”

You could write an FX that crops the video at the master bus. The fact that no one has written one seems to suggest that there isn’t a market for it. Like I said, why do you need to do this? Maybe your making this harder on yourself than it needs to be?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Joao Souza]

Let me give you an example.

-I have a session with 30 video tracks + some audio tracks.

-There’s a scene which has 5 video tracks, one have a background picture, the other one has a video over that pic, and another one has an actor etc.

-There’s a door in that beckground pic and I want to make a zoom like if cam(point of view) walked through that door.

-So I need all tracks of that scene zooming, if I zoom only that background pic(door), that video playing over background pic and actor won’t follow my zooming, they will stay at the same place while the whole background is moving.

Zooming with track motion has poor quality so why not a master pan/crop?
Maybe you guys know another way to do that.
I know I could render that part then zoom the whole thing but I just can’t believe there’s no master pan/crop.
You said you never needed it so everytime you wanted to do something like what I want, you just rendered and pan/crop the rendered video?
If yes that’s strange to me cause a simple master pan/crop would do that without having to render/import etc.
It’s like I have to render that part with 5 video tracks which I want to zoom, import it, do that zoom, render again and import it again?
Am I lost?

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka

[John Rofrano]

[Joao Souza] “-So I need all tracks of that scene zooming, if I zoom only that background pic(door), that video playing over background pic and actor won’t follow my zooming, they will stay at the same place while the whole background is moving.”

Vegas Pro can do this easily once we understand what you are trying to do. You need to parent the 10 tracks to an 11th Parent Track and then use Parent Motion to zoom all 10 child tracks simultaneously. Here is an example using Chroma Key:

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Joao Souza]

Yep but I think we already agreed pan/crop zooming has better quality, not?
With parent motion/track motion quality is bad.
I knew about parent motion but it distorts image if zoom is big, looks like image has low quality.
I already did that in a corridor, when zoom reached its door, it looked like bad quality image so I thought using parent motion for zooming was wrong, then I tried pan/crop and quality was awesome BUT I couldn’t find a way to zoom more than 1 track together.

BTW thanks John for trying to help 😉

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka

[John Rofrano]

[Joao Souza] “I already did that in a corridor, when zoom reached its door, it looked like bad quality image so I thought using parent motion for zooming was wrong, then I tried pan/crop and quality was awesome BUT I couldn’t find a way to zoom more than 1 track together.”

So then use the first technique that I recommended. Put the 10 tracks in a separate project, drop that project into your main project and crop the event that it creates as much as you’d like. That is why Vegas allows you to nest projects like this.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Joao Souza]

Ok I’ll try that.

We have so much time and so little to do! / Willy Wonka