Realtime preview of pan & zoom

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gordonwd
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Realtime preview of pan & zoom

Post by gordonwd »

In VS8, what is a good way to view a pan & zoom effect so that it plays back in the actual time that it will take in the final production? Several times I have used this effect and got it looking just the way I want, but then when I burn a DVD and play it back, it's much too fast. I know that there are duration settings for things like titles, pan & zoom, and other effects, but it's hard for me to picture how many seconds or fractions of a second something should take up without actually viewing it in realtime.

Is there a good way to do this from within the VS8 editing environment?
THoff

Post by THoff »

UVS isn't very good at previewing things quickly and accurately.

If you want to see what something will really look like, then I would suggest that you set a preview range that covers your pan & zoom, and render that to a video file for viewing in an external program such as Windows Media Player.

UVS 9 adds a new preview option in the Share tab, which is nice because it shows the video using the project's output dimensions rather than fitting it into the Preview window.
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