I am using VS 9 to edit some training videos. I shot the videos using two cameras, one facing me and the other meant to be an over the shoulder close up camera filming my hands working from my view. In some of the video files of the close ups I now notice my hands have moved off center or the shot could have been tighter. Can I use the zoom or pan feature to correct this?? And if so will it degrade the picture quality noticably? At the most I dont see me needing to zoom in more than 10-30 percent on some of the clips. And last but not least can this be done in VS 9 or would VS 10 be a better program to use? Thanks again, this forum has been such a huge help over the software manual provided...or should I say brochure provided.
Thanks again!
Ed
Pan and Zoom Question
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Ed,
You sure can do what you are wanting, with VS9. I ran a quick check on a couple of clips with both VS9 and 10. I used the filter, setting the zoom to 138 %, with no panning. 1 clip was a personal clip captured to DV, the second was one provided with the program.
I found that at 138% there was some blurring on Preview playback. However that does not mean the final product (rendered DVD) will be the same. Using VS9 place the filter on a short clip and render it to a DVD compatible format (MPEG-2 NTSC or PAL). Then see if the video quality is degraded. Most of the blurring for me occured due to movement, this of course is magnified in a zoom. It is quite possible you may not experience any.
***EDITED***
I went ahead and rendered a short clip and found that there was no noticeable degredation or blurring...
Ron P.
You sure can do what you are wanting, with VS9. I ran a quick check on a couple of clips with both VS9 and 10. I used the filter, setting the zoom to 138 %, with no panning. 1 clip was a personal clip captured to DV, the second was one provided with the program.
I found that at 138% there was some blurring on Preview playback. However that does not mean the final product (rendered DVD) will be the same. Using VS9 place the filter on a short clip and render it to a DVD compatible format (MPEG-2 NTSC or PAL). Then see if the video quality is degraded. Most of the blurring for me occured due to movement, this of course is magnified in a zoom. It is quite possible you may not experience any.
***EDITED***
I went ahead and rendered a short clip and found that there was no noticeable degredation or blurring...
Ron P.
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