How to fly and zoom in a clip?

[qtranva]

Hello all, I'm playing with VS 11 plus and wondering if it's possible to fly my cruise ship clip out of the TV frame and make it bigger at the same time to fill up the whole screen. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks.

QT

http://members.cox.net/qtshows/test.wmv

[sjj1805]

You need to use the cropping filter - NOT the Video pan and zoom filter.

1. To achieve the fly in / out place the clip on an overlay track rather than the video track. now use the "Direction/Style" boxes on the attribute tab
and set the entry and exit points.



2. Apply the crop filter


3. Set a key frame at the start (A) with small values and "Fill color" ticked.
4. Set at key fame at the end (B) with high values.



For further information please view:
Video Filters

[qtranva]

Thank you very much for a quick and detailed response. However, I wasn't clear about the effect. The sample video has my cruise ship clip flies out of the TV frame to the left, just like your instruction. What I really want is the cruise clip to fly straight out of the TV frame toward at you and at the same time it gets bigger and becomes the only video you see on your monitor. Thanks again.

QT

[sjj1805]

Simple. Do not employ the enter/exit items and just use the two key frames of the crop filter. In fact if you only want it to start as a small dot in the middle of the screen and then grow towards you, you can do this on the video track.
I only mentioned use of the overlay track so that you could include directional movement.

[qtranva]

I'll give it a try.

[pdblizzard]

Simple. Do not employ the enter/exit items and just use the two key frames of the crop filter. In fact if you only want it to start as a small dot in the middle of the screen and then grow towards you, you can do this on the video track.
I only mentioned use of the overlay track so that you could include directional movement.

Maybe you can help me.

I took a broad video shot of the entire kid's chorus holiday program. I'm trying to do to zoom in to see the individual kid's faces on the left, and then pan to the right, still zoomed in on faces.

The panning process, I get completely with the crop filter, but I'm lost trying to zoom in. I know it can be done very easily with still images, but this is video.

I'm used to Sony Vegas Movie studio 4.0a where it's a very simple process, but I have Ulead Studio 10 and would like to do all my work there.

Am I missing something? Any help you can give me I truly appreciate

[Ron P.]

Look at Steve's examples above. The Keyframing is how you do this, even using the Pan/Zoom filter on videos. The difficult part is changing the position + on video, of the keyframes.

Look on the right side of the keyframe time-line, for the slider and the - and +, buttons. These allow you to expand, or enlarge the time-line for more accurate placement of your keyframes.

When I read this post I experimented on one of my videos. You can even have a Cross-fade transistion between keyframes, without cutting the clip. Just adjust the Transparency located on the Pan/Zoom, not on the Cropping Filter. For example, set a keyframe having the Transparency at 0. Move to the right, place another keyframe, set the transparency to 100. Move further to the right, set another keyframe, set the transparency back to 0. Now your video clip will fade out, then back in. You can also set the color to use for the transparency. Fade-out to black (default), fade-out to white, or whatever...

Play around with it, as with a lot of the filters, and you'll be surprised at what you can come up with..

[sjj1805]

For even more in depth information please view
Video Filters

Here is a video with the picture from the above link so you can see how I did mine. Not exactly the same path as outlined in the tutorial but close enough for you to get an idea.



click here to view the video