[Bob Peterson]

You probably want to replace the word rather than mix two words together. That would be an overwrite in SF assuming, of course, that both words have the same length.

[Bob Peterson]

One is VERY zoomed in (presumably the one you don’t like), while the other is VERY zoomed out. I don’t think anything can be concluded from that. Both images should be the same size and resolution to compare them properly.

Also, AVI doesn’t really identify the video format.

[Bob Peterson]

What is being used to play the rendered file? You should not need Vegas for that. I’m guessing your hard drive is failing, and that is causing to choppy performance. Try the rendered file on a different machine.

[Bob Peterson]

The original clip should still be in your project media.

[Bob Peterson]

My understanding of track motion is that it does not resize UNLESS you use it to resize. That’s how I interpreted what one of the more advanced people wrote.

What I’ve been doing is experimenting. I have a PNG image which is 2520 pixels by 960 pixels. It is used in a 720×480 project, so, while the vertical dimension can fit, the horizontal dimension cannot simultaneously do so. The image is too wide. The image is a map which allows me to look at it and see if resolution has been altered.

I initially applied pan/crop to this image. I found that I could get a full vertical image, and that I could pan to parts of the image that were on its left and right margins. Thus, pan/crop does not limit the image or convert it to project dimensions.

I have now applied track motion. I did not use track motion to resize the image. I did move the position of the image between two points in time. The full image was retained, as it had been in the first step, and there was no loss in resolution. Pan/crop is still active while track motion is moving the “clip”. Thus, I can still pan across the full horizontal dimension just as I did before.

As a last step, I used track motion to resize the image. Again, all aspects of the image were retained with full resolution.

I guess my next step is to set up a test using a video clip, but so far I am not seeing any limitation.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Bob Peterson]

That’s going to use a LOT of tracks. As long as my photos are reasonably spaced on the timeline, I tend to put them all on the same track. I can then fade them up and down as necessary. Although I tend to use envelopes, especially when two or more video tracks are involved, I can also fade up and down by simply adjusting the transition at the beginning and end of the clip/photo.

[Bob Peterson]

I simply don’t use subclips. It has been years since I’ve been in the trimmer. There are many other ways to work. You can roll up the end points. You can insert markers rather than cutting in the trimmer. Then select the subsection and drop it on the timeline. You can also split a file on the timeline with generous margins, and roll up the endpoints. There are many ways if you use a little imagination.

BTW, the reason I no longer use the trimmer is that my audio is rarely within a video file. I record my audio on an M-Audio field recorder, and synch it with the video in Vegas.