[Alex Kerezy]

WOW…… That’s really a great idea. Thank you so much!

[Alex Kerezy]

I thought about that. I might actually try that.

I saw some online videos where they did “animation” in Adobe after effects, but it’s a lot of work.

Thank you!

[Alex Kerezy]

Thanks – good idea. I figured I wasn’t the only one who ran into this.

[Alex Kerezy]

Thanks for the suggestion…………a better idea would be for the software engineers to allow on/off key frames of any/all effects as a whole.

[Alex Kerezy]

oooOHHHHhh….. why would they design track matte key to mask different if the layers below are moving or zooming

Who cares what’s happening underneath – just show it through based on what’s above

[Alex Kerezy]

I tried Transform Camera View. It’s let me zoom, but not to zoom in on an object in my still photo. Not that I have a big ego… but the idea was to zoom in on myself in the picture.

I tried putting the image in a sequence, and Track Matte Key effect on the sequence, but the result is the same.

Pretty lame effects…. I did this in Sony Vegas.

[Alex Kerezy]

Yes…. Thank You Ann. Actually I figured it out late last night. Or was that early this morning.

What I did was use the motion effect to zoom in on me in the both the still photos. Both = the clear one on the bottom and blurry one above it.

Somehow…. those key frames and setting must be identical between the two layers — otherwise the track matte key effects are off.

HHhhhmmm is there a way to copy a set of key frames as a group and paste them into another layer?

Thank you again for your help!!
Creative Cow Rocks!!

[Alex Kerezy]

Hi
I tried what you said. I set all 3 layers to ‘Scale to Frame Size’ – the same results.

Somehow the position of the title as far as what layer 3 shows, is not what the Track Matte Key effect is using to create the mask. You can see this in the title maker window: https://www.kerezyfamily.com/Pics/ScreenShot3.jpg

I can’t figure out why the mask is not where the text shows it should be. What ever happened to WYSIWYG……

Any help would be appreciated!!
Alex

[Alex Kerezy]

Hi
What I did was use photoshop to resize the photos to 1920 x 1080 before I put them into the into the premeire project. Both the blurred photo and the clear photo is resized the exact same.

The top mask layer is a title, I made in Premiere.

Do you think premiere is trying to resize them?
Alex

[Alex Kerezy]

Hi,
Bottom line – you MUST have a special video card for this software to work.

RATHER THAN……write the complex code to render the graphics themselves…..this company…. made their software using something called Open GL – which itself is a set of canned computer code that can render 2D and 3D graphics very fast and interfaces with the graphics card (so the person writing the software code don’t have to the low level coding), but OBVIOUSLY Open GL doesn’t work with all cards, only select cards.

These APIs (canned interfaces) make writing software fast – but you’re CHAINED to what functionality they support. Here – open GL doesn’t support your everyday standard graphics cards in most PCs.

FYI – There’s really no “external” video cards for laptops, if by chance that’s what you have.

Watch out – the sales rep will “suggest” they can help you fix or solve the problem. Then they’ll tell you – you must have one of these video cards.

It’s amazing this is 2013 and off the shelf the computers still can’t do cool things. They really do have enough processing power – but the design to utilize it soooOOOoooo poor.

It’s sad companies don’t do enough research into these things and take shortcuts………even big companies do this. I have Adobe Photoshop, and it’s 3D functionality uses Open GL, so that functionality doesn’t work on my computer either.

Blessings!!
Alex