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zooming on cropped pic, keep widescreen look
I’ve cropped some still pictures in the motion tab to ‘wide screen’ look. To go with the rest of the video. Now I want to zoom in to a c.u. of a face in the picutre. I can’t figure out how to keep the ‘crop’ marks in the wide screen look. I’ve tried mattes, the widesreen matte using ‘boarders’, key framing the crop in the motion tab, everything I can think of. But when I zoom in the cropping won’t stay in the right ratio, if I key frame the move it gets jumpy.
Question: Is there a way to make a 720×480 still look ‘wide screen’ (using the widescreen matte, or cropping or another method) in the wide view and then hold that look while zooming in to a cu? Some kind of over-all matte that keeps the ‘wide screen’ look.
Thanks.
Richard
G4, dual 1 gig, 1 gig ram, 10.2.8, 4.5HD
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3 Replies
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Easy.
Create a nested sequence: created your timeline with edits, effects, etc. Create a second sequence and drag the “clip” of your first sequence into the second sequence’s timeline. Add the widescreen matte to the clip. Done. Very usefull technique to apply the same effect to all clips of a particular sequence.
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Trevor’s method is a good one, but adding the matte to the ENTIRE edit and rendering can take a bit of TIME and disk-space.
If you ONLY need to do this to a few images (the rest of the sequence ios OK, as-is) then…
Simply add another Video track above the clip(s) on your timeline.
On that track, edit the “Slug” and mask out the center area to the 16×9 aspect/position you want (with Mask Shape > Rectangle > Invert).This will allow an easier way to “slide” the image around (you’d actually move the clip itself with the Motion tab) and the mask will just sit, positioned properly, on the track above.
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Trevor and Matte,
Thanks. I knew you guys would know the answer. It always seems so simple, but for the life of me I could not figure out how to do it.
Have a nice weekend and Happy Veterans Day (if that is indeed possible–I mean a ‘happy’ one)Cheers,
Richard
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