[Mike Hamernik]

Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I’m a little confused. With the Event Pan/Crop tool, the image (or video in this case) remains stationary, constant. All of the video manipulation occurs with the (here comes my Vegas Movie Studio prowess) big letter “F” encased within a rectangle, then within a circle thing (a definition of this thing would help me a lot).

I’m using the “F” thing to resize the video to about half, then slowly pan it from left to right across the screen. How can I also use this tool to crop the left and right sides of the video clip, and produce the panning effect at the same time?

The vertical black lines appear on the video image within the Event Pan/Crop tool, as I manipulate the “F” into what I want it to do.

I don’t know if the black lines are imported as a result of the video camera, since most of the footage used takes up the whole viweing screen (and cropping would be straight forward here).

In this case I’m using a video segment, reduced in size so all four sides are seen, and panning it from one side to another. Here, black edges are a factor (in this case the left and right sides) and I would very much like to crop them out (overall dimension of the moving video clip would not be that important here, since it is just a special effect). Thanks!