[Mark Pi]

Mine just started doing the EXACT same thing: slowly zooms on its own, and the top tiny rocker isn’t working.

Nothing else is connected to the camera.

Any ideas?

[Mark Pi]

Tried that. The project I’m working with now is just the one single frame and two keyframes.

[Mark Pi]

No, there’s only the one video (a single picture, really) on one track.

Thinking it’s a bug in Vegas (which I surely would have run into before), I tried to put some video in front of it and behind it, then tracks above and below, but the behaviour is restricted to the single clip.

I spent a couple hours yesterday trying different things to sort it out, but nothing… Argh!

Could it be that I’m doing two different things within a keyframe — a rotate, and a zoom at once?

[Mark Pi]

You can also:

1. SPLIT where you want the freeze,

2. Move the right part to where you want the freeze to end.

3. Then move back a frame and SPLIT again to single out a frame,

4. Then right-click on the single frame and click CREATE SUBCLIP.

5. Finally, grab the right edge of the single frame and stretch for the duration of the freeze.

I just did a project with a lot of freezes, and this was fast and simple (just three keystrokes, a slide, a right-click, and another slide), and easy to edit afterwards.

[Mark Pi]

Positive. I checked that a billion times. I also checked to make sure there wasn’t another keyframe hidden nearby.

[Mark Pi]

Forgot to mention that I saw the “Using Fractal Noise to Create Fire” tutorial, but I’m looking for something more subtle.

The shot lasts only 5-10 seconds, and will slowly zoom in to the photo while it begins to distort and burn — not necessary to see flames.