[Maynard001]

Thanks again guys. I played with it a little more last night and got it figured out. I was doing something stupid…I figured it was me.

Thanks again for your help…

[Maynard001]

Thanks Ed. I’ve never posted a .veg before. I’ll read the forum instructions and try to post one tonight.

I think the problem here is that I’m trying to do this the hard way. I’m sure there’s an easier way to do it…I just don’t know what it is.

Track1 is the full-frame picture (.jpg1)
Track2 is the picture of my son holding a plain white 8.5×11.

Using even pan/crop, I’m resizing .jpg1 so that it fits on the 8.5×11 my son is holding. I set this as a keyframe and set it to the end of the event…since this is how i want the final shot to look. I then right-click and select ‘restore’ to set my starting keyframe back to the original full-frame shot.

I want the shot to start with .jpg1 full-frame….then pulling all the way out to show that it is being “held” by my son. My current issue is that Track2 just sits still when I need it to start out zoomed way in and then zoom out with .jpg1. I don’t have a problem getting .jpg1 to do what I want…it’s getting the image on track2 to move with it that i’m having the issue with.

[Maynard001]

Thanks Terry…

I’ve done that. I can shrink the jpg down to fit on the white card without any problems. The problem is when I zoom back in to get the picture to take up the entire frame…it looks terrible. I think I’ve heard somewhere that Vegas re-samples images that are panned/cropped. So I’m wondering if the image is being re-sampled when it’s shrunk way down to fit on the card….and that’s the reason it looks so bad when I zoom back in on it.

[Maynard001]

they’re straight out of my digital camera…..i think they’re 1280×1024

[Maynard001]

It’s actually not anyone I know. This video was posted on the forum a few months ago and it inspired me to try something new…

[Maynard001]

By “driving yourself insane” are you referring to the massive amount of keyframing I would need to do? If so, I think I experienced that last night.

I tried a quick test last night and quickly realized that when I pan around on the background image moving from photo to photo, all of the superimposed images want to move rather than staying anchored in one spot.

Here’s an example of my poor little test video…

test movie

[Maynard001]

Thanks…I’ll definitely take a look…

[Maynard001]

Nevermind…I found it in the archives. This was the one I was looking for.

https://www.youthunlimited.com/yfc_regeneration.wmv