how to make a picture small to large

bob733 · Post by **bob733** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:29 pm

I have an image. In the movie, I want that image to be so small you cannot really see it. And then for the next 5 or 6 seconds, I want the image to grown in size until it is full size. Kind of like morphing it to make it grow.

Imagine it is like a ball being thrown at you. you cant see the threads on the ball until it just about to hit you.

Can we do this in VS Plus?

Bob

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:56 pm

Yes this is one of those sort-of, kind-of type things..

With the more expensive programs that use motion paths, it's done rather easily. With VS you need to work a little more, and think out of the box..

To do this you need to use the crop filter, cropping your image down so it is that very little size. Having the cropped part centered on the image. You might also need to use the Pan/Zoom to start enlarging as the crop filter enlarges.

It's not easy to pull off with VS, because as you know, the zooms all start at 100%.

bob733 · Post by **bob733** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:12 pm

Would MSP do the trick? And if so, is this a good purchase decision considering the dropping of the product (I believe).

Bob

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:14 pm

Yes, MSP will easily do it. Is MSP a good purchasing decision? I guess that depends on what you want to get out of it...

bob733 · Post by **bob733** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:43 am

i tried doing the path simulation in VS... and it really is too cumbersom and didnt work.

What will do it (at an affordable price).. would Pinnacle studio 11 do it?

MSP is just too expensive and I am afraid that is going to the price point I will have to do if I want this type of power.

Bob

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:25 am

Ron (Vidoman) has hit the nail on the head - use the crop filter.
What you then also need to do is set key frames so that the first key frame makes it small and the last large, your picture will then steadily "grow" in size.

Video Filters then scroll down to Key Frames.

bob733 · Post by **bob733** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:26 pm

Thanks to Ron and Steve. But, I have to tell you there is a better way. I went to the link that was in Steves response which led me to Burgers FXBench.

He has transitions for download and (although not ready for download yet) a product called FXBench.

I downloaded the Transitions and one of them (Bubble) hit the nail on the head. You may want to view them. They are excellent.

I also emailed him and told him I would love to help Beta his FXBench application. Being in the business for 30 some years, if a software app can be broken, I can break it. I have quite a lot of experience Beta testing major vendor products.

Anyway, thanks once again to you and Ron.

Bob

bob733 · Post by **bob733** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:52 pm

Nothing is easy. I actually needed the growing soccer player picture to be on top of a background (a soccer field). I can put the Bubble transition in the main soccer field movie line but not an player Overlay.

The scene (and there are going to be 14 just like it with different players) is a soccer field. When the soccer field is playing, all of a sudden a picture of one of the players (starting real small) grows on the screen. then his name appears.

I have to overlay the player so that he is superimposed (with transparent background) Over the field main video track. The Bubble makes the player grow but I cant use the bubble on an Overlay track (to make the player grow in size).

I read (after doing a search) about making an avi movie (in my case the growing player), but now I am having transparency problems that have to be worked out.

If anyone has any ideas, they would be appreciated

Nothing is easy

Bob

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:44 pm

Yes, that is a real sore point with many of us. For years we have requested they add transitions to overlay tracks, but...

You are on the right track, though. If you want the overlay to have a "transition" then you must first do it in the main track, render that to its own avi file, then import that file to the overlay track.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:21 am

Very slight variation to Jeffs reply is to prepare it on the VideoTrack and save it as a vsp. You can then use the vsp in the same way as a rendered video.

bob733 · Post by **bob733** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:49 am

yes, the VSP way works the only time he gets screwed is when you have the main VSP, using a VSP that also uses another VSP! In other words (if I rememebr correctly), you can only go 1 VSP layer deep.

Bob