Crop in MediaStudio 6.5

jacksonisrad · Post by **jacksonisrad** » Mon May 23, 2005 7:42 am

I have read all the how to's and I still cant figure it out, if someone could PLEASE help me It would be greatly appreared. I just want to drop in like 10% or something, not much but It just doesnt tell you how. I cant get anywhere!

Thanks heaps

jackson

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 10:42 am

If you are going to play back on a TV screen, you might be ok as it is. There is the "Overscan" area that essentially blocks about 10% around the edges from being viewed on a TV (the amount can vary from TV to TV).

jacksonisrad · Post by **jacksonisrad** » Mon May 23, 2005 11:04 am

Yeah I know, I need additional zoomage though. So if anyone can inform me how, please let me know.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 12:02 pm

Are you trying to "Crop", or trying to "Zoom"? To me, "Crop" means to just get rid of the cropped out sections -- leaving the rest unchanged. Of course, if you crop and scale, then you might get a zooming effect.

For "Zoom", you can apply a 2D Moving Path to your video. Just make sure you have the start and end key frame set to the same numbers. Or you could make it zoom in and out by using different numbers and adding multiple key frames (within the 2D Moving Path).

jacksonisrad · Post by **jacksonisrad** » Mon May 23, 2005 2:13 pm

Hey, sorry I cant expalin it too well but hopefully this will give you a better idea of what im after

From this

To this

I want to be abel to move the video closer to cut off the large ammount of vignetteing (black around the side).

Thanks heaps

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:02 pm

yes, if you apply the 2D Moving Path, you can zoom in (getting rid of the outer edges).

Did you try the 2D Moving Path?

jacksonisrad · Post by **jacksonisrad** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:18 pm

Yeah but its just a zoom filter? Im not too good with ulead yet, like it just zooms. I dont want it to be moving to the screen I wont it to be stuck looking like that for the whole duriation of it being on school no movinf or anything. My msn is smokeyandi@hotmail.com, if you have that you can add me now Im online and we can talk easyer about it there. thanks heaps george.

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:23 pm

Make sure the Start and End key frames have the same values, then the picture won't zoom during playback. Click the diamond at the beginning of the sequence, make sure those values are in the diamond at the end of the sequence. In MSP7, you can right-click copy/paste those attributes at the diamonds (key frames), I don't know if you can copy/paste those values in versions under MSP7.

jacksonisrad · Post by **jacksonisrad** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:30 pm

Hey george still couldnt figure it out... I tried all of these and had no idea what I was ment to do. *sigh*

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:36 pm

Don't worry, once you get this working, it will open up a whole bunch of new options for your video editing.

I am away from my video machine, so this is from memory (which is not what it used to be)

When you add the 2D Moving Path, a popup window appears. Notice underneath the little square with your video in it, that there is a timeline. And there is a diamond at the beginnig and end of this timeline. Click on the first diamond, and change the dimensions of your picture. Make note of the values below (they are X/Y coordinates and such). Then click on the diamond at the end of the timeline, and make sure it has the same values as the start diamond.

Let us know if you can't get it working, maybe someone at their video machine can help by posting a picture (or explain it better than me).

jacksonisrad · Post by **jacksonisrad** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:37 pm

OKAY! I think I have got it with some playing around... thanks george, i should be sweet from here! Good karmas coming your way!

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:41 pm

That's great!

Now you can even do Picture-in-Pictures using a small version on V2 overlaying stuff on V1 or Va/Vb.

And you can make things pan/zoom using key frames along that timeline in the moving path window -- you just add more diamonds by clicking on the plus sign (delete with minus sign).

Have Fun!

MikeGunter · Post by **MikeGunter** » Mon May 23, 2005 3:58 pm

jacksonisrad wrote:Hey george still couldnt figure it out... I tried all of these and had no idea what I was ment to do. *sigh*

Hi,

Here is a wide angle shot similar to yours.

Apply a 2d motion to the clip.

I went to the end of the clip and made my adjustments to the size keeping the aspect ratio, and copying the *keyframe*.

Then select the first keyframe and paste. It will paste the attributes of the copied keyframe.

It should then be a zoomed in, static shot.

Mike

GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon May 23, 2005 4:02 pm

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the pictures (I was going from memory)

As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I'm not sure the copy/paste of the key frames is available in MSP 6.5 (I think it was introduced in MSP 7 -- but just can't say for certain).

Anyway, it's good to have the visual

Regards,
George

keithm · Post by **keithm** » Thu May 26, 2005 11:49 am

Hi guys, you are really over complicating this one. All you do is right click footage and pick video filters then cropping. Go into the cropping menu and pick an amount, say 70%. Make sure border (I think - it's the tick box with a colour) isn't ticked and MSPro will fill the frame with 70% of the image. make sure you set the same size for the beginning and end of the footage or it will zoom in or out.

That's it.