Vegas Pan/Cropping help

uchihaclan13 · Post by **uchihaclan13** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:10 pm

If you look at the pic for a sec on how the pan/crop is positioned in the window and then look at in the preview screen...

My question is, how can I make it so that guy's face (middle of his face) shows up in that exact spot in the preview screen and leaving that "F" zone right there?

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:17 pm

Could you, I don't know, move the clip to the left?

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:43 pm

PAN is something you do with a TriPod so your Camera can take a wide-view of a background.
(( the oversized length will be a moving background for the Characters to be walking-past -- the movement / direction they will be walking. ))
The PAN will only display the background "section" of your location at THAT frame.

Are you trying to have the letter " F " be a black-out -or- second video see-thru ?

sorry, I guess I'm not understanding what you are trying to do!

umm, could you possibly show us what it should look like from your Picture Editor creation ?? -- if we can see what you want it to look like, then we can figure-out How To Do It

-Nfp · Post by **-Nfp** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:45 pm

Try expanding the F frame back to its normal size then move the whole frame to the left making sure that the right side of the frame is where you want it to be, then cookie cutter the rest of the clip out, i hope that solves your problem.

uchihaclan13 · Post by **uchihaclan13** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:50 pm

@bashar: No I couldn't unless I moved that "f" window with it.

@post-it: I dunno if u were trinyg to make a joke or not, but the tool is called "Pan/Crop" tool and also I just wanted to move center the vid into that vertical strip on the left

@Souljah: It worked! Cookie cutter always does wonders =3

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 3:11 am

Another alternative: set the clip's pan-crop the way you want it; i.e. center that F-rectangle on the face. Then close the pan-crop screen, open the track motion window and move the blue rectangle to place the image where you want it. From the track motion window you can also add a glow or shadow. Something to play around with.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:36 am

uchihaclan13 wrote: @post-it: I dunno if u were trinyg to make a joke or not ...

a joke ? .. no specail affect/effect is a joke -- unless its done wrong ^_^ than, and only then can anybody say, "what in heck was that!?"

In the software that I purchase for Editing ( AiST now under a new name for Private sales only , Magix, Asymetrix now also under a new name for Private sales only , Virtual Dub ... ) they allow specail Filtering and Affects/Effects to be Written by the Owners if such a Transition/Affect/Effect was not supplied by the Company Itself. This is one of my Desired Qualities in the Purchase of my Video Editors.

soo if your Editor can Import Transitions and Affects I might have had it already made for you - that's all

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:21 pm

Sorry for getting OT, but

post-it wrote:In the software that I purchase for Editing ( AiST now under a new name for Private sales only , ...

What information do you have on this? I still use AIST. AFAIK AIST doesn't make any b2c business anymore, no sales, no support, only b2b business under the brand of their mother Cinegy (software is called eXtreme).

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:45 am

TaranT wrote:Another alternative: set the clip's pan-crop the way you want it; i.e. center that F-rectangle on the face. Then close the pan-crop screen, open the track motion window and move the blue rectangle to place the image where you want it. From the track motion window you can also add a glow or shadow. Something to play around with.

The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited.

RIPmyprsoul · Post by **RIPmyprsoul** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:04 pm

Kitsuner wrote:
TaranT wrote:Another alternative: set the clip's pan-crop the way you want it; i.e. center that F-rectangle on the face. Then close the pan-crop screen, open the track motion window and move the blue rectangle to place the image where you want it. From the track motion window you can also add a glow or shadow. Something to play around with.
The downside to this technique is that it affects the entire track, so it's somewhat limited.

Isn't there keyframes to choose when you want to start and stop the track motion?